3-071-215 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Smithfield Club Cattle Show: Sir W. Gordon Cumming's Scotch polled heifer, winner of the Champion Plate and Gold Medal, 1881. 'We present an Illustration of the Scotch polled heifer which gained the Champion Plate as the best of all the beasts exhibited last week at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, in the annual Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club. This year 1881 will be known as "The Scots" year; an unexampled event having occurred in both the £50 cups for the best ox or steer and best cow or heifer going to a polled Scot steer and a polled Scot heifer, the latter winning also the 100-guinea Champion Plate as best beast in the hall, besides the first prize in her class and the Club's Gold Medal to her breeder. It is worthy of notice that both animals, the two best in the hall, belong to the same exhibitor, Sir W. G. Gordon-Cumming, of Altyre, Forres, Elgin; while claiming the further credit that the champion animal - namely, the black-polled heifer - was bred by himself'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.