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The Warwick Meeting. 
Aged bulls (Class 42) were a good class of 21 entries, and 
as the first six were of approximately equal merit, some time 
was occupied in placing them, and in assigning the substantial 
awards to Mr. Henry Williams’s Ifcyw, Mr. J. Deane Willis’s 
Lavender, and Mr. H. T. Cookson’s Judge of Assize. “ One or two 
bulls in this class were ofF their feet, probably from over-feeding,” 
otherwise the decisions might have been somewhat different. 
In Class 43, bulls calved in 1890, there were 17 entries, 
amongst which the first prize bull, Fairfax, exhibited by Her 
Majesty the Queen, “ stood out prominently from the rest.” 
There were four or five other useful bulls, but many of the rest 
were hardly of Eoyal Show merit. 
Yearling bulls (Class 44) numbered 30 entries, the first of 
which, the Duke of Northumberland’s Fairy King, “ showed 
considerable merit, and was an easy winner.” The second and 
third — the Prince of Wales’s Broughton Lad and Mr. John 
Handley’s Captain Ingram — were nearly equal. “ Some of the 
animals in this class, though good farmers’ bulls, had no pre- 
tensions to being Showyard cattle.” 
For the male Shorthorn championship two strong com- 
petitors came forward in Mr. Williams’s Major and the Queen’s 
Fairfax. The former was selected, but he was approached very 
closely in merit by the other. 
In a small class (45) of seven Shorthorn cows, the first three 
were extraordinary animals, the first prize cow. Lord Polwarth’s 
Truth, “ being one of the most perfect Show cows that has been 
before the public for many years.” The same breeder’s second 
prize cow. Wave of Loch Leven, “ was one of the same type, and 
had had twin calves within a fortnight of the Show, which 
added greatly to her merit ; and not only did she show splendid 
form and beef-producing properties, but she was evidently a 
good specimen of a dairy cow.” The third prize cow, Mr. C. 
W. Brierley’s Softlaw Bose, “ was of an entirely different type, 
being of immense substance, but did not show the quality of 
the first two.” 
Heifers in-milk or in-calf (Class 46) made “ a small, rather 
weak class.” The prize-winners were Mr. Brierley’s Oodiva 
Butterfly, Mr. Thomas Stokes’s Gladys Waterloo, and the Queen’s 
Rachel. “ With the exception of the first two there was nothing 
beyond ordinary merit.” 
Heifers, calved in 1890, formed an extraordinarily good 
class (47) of 25 entries — “ one of the best classes ever seen 
in a Royal Showyard.” The prize takers — the Queen’s Rosemary, 
Mr. Robert Thompson’s Margaretta Millicent, and Mr. Edward 
Ecroyd’s Well Heads Rose 14th — were of nearly equal merit, 
