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Shows, the Marquess of Exeter's " Telemachus 6th " and " Tele- 
macina," who were both the offspring of the prize-bull " Telema- 
chus;" and the second-winner, making apparently a very close 
contest with the Havering Park heifer, was Sir Henry 
Allsopp's beautiful " Duchess 123rd," the first female of her 
tribe — the " Duchess " tribe of Mr. Charles Colling and 
Mr. Bates — that has come into an English Showyard since 
1861, when Colonel Gunter's " Duchess 77th " was the first- 
prize cow, " the twins " were first and highly commended in the 
two-year-old class, and a yearling took a first prize, at Leeds. 
The brilliant success of Mr. Bates at the opening Show at 
Oxford in 1839, and his further success in subsequent years, 
have brought his cattle, and especially this and his Oxford and 
Cambridge tribes, into prominent association with the history 
of the Society's annual Shows. The successful exhibition of a 
" Duchess " heifer, after the lapse of so many years, is there- 
fore a noteworthy incident of the Shrewsbury Meeting. 
Mr. Toppin's " Warrior's Dream " (third prize), Mr. Palmer's 
"Baroness Hillhurst 3rd" (reserve), a daughter of his Reading 
first-prize bull " Caractacus," the Duke of Northumberland's 
" Sunflower," a daughter of " Sunshade " (highly commended 
in the Cow Class), Mr. Brierley's " Rosedale Snowflake" (a 
daughter of his first-prize cow), Mr. Hutchinson's " Lady Prim- 
rose," and Mr. George Ashburner's " Winsome Gem," all 
judicially noticed, added to the siiength of the competition, 
and by their considerable merit enhanced the value of the 
success gained by the Havering and Hindlip heifers. 
The Class for Pairs of Heifers was not well filled. There 
were seven entries, but only five came before the Judges, come 
of them in merely ordinary condition. For the exhibition 
of cattle in such condition we have occasionally loud demands, 
but compliance, somehow, is seldom rewarded with gracious 
notice. 
Meport of the Judges of Shorthorns. 
The Judges of Shorthorns report that the numbers exhibited were not 
equal to those seen at many previous Shows, and the same may be said of the 
merits of the animals in several of the classes, more particularly with regard 
to the bulls. 
Class 48 contained only four animals, two of which may be considered 
good types of a Shorthorn. 
Class 49. — The Judges had little to do in this class ; the first-prize animal 
taking a decided lead. 
Class 50. — Not at all a strong class beyond the prize animals ; they were 
not up to the usual standard. 
Class 51. — A most creditable class. 
Class 52. — A most satisfactory and interesting class, and one to which we 
"would advise every encouragement to be given. 
Class 53. — A most excellent class, every animal being noticed. 
