THE FAKMBE'S MAGAZIT^E. 



APRIL, 1859. 



PLATE I. 



CLARET; A Hereford Bull, 



THE PROPERTY OF MR. RICHARD HILL, OF GOLDING HALL, SHREWSBURY. 



PLATE 11. 

 COTHERSTONE; a Thorough-bred Stallion, 



THE PROPERTY OF THE BIGHT HONOURABLE EARL SPENCER. 



CLARET; A Hereford Bull, 



THE property of MR. RICHARD HILL, OF GOLDING HALL, SHREWSBURY. 



Claret, bred by Mr. Hill, is of the purest Knif];ht 

 blood, and a Hereford of the very highest de- 

 scent. He was calved on August 24th, 1856, 

 and is by the Knight (185), dam Primrose, by 

 Sibdon (1385). 



In 1858, at the Chester meeting of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England, Claret took the 

 first prize of £25, as the best two-year-old bull. 



At the Hereford county Meeting, in the autumn 

 of the same year, he took the first prize of his class. 



And at Bridgnorth, he again took the first prize 

 for young bulls. 



Claret is a remarkably handsome specimen of 

 the Hereford, while he unites good looks with a 

 capital hardy constitution, and a most excellent 

 quality. He is rather a dark-coloured bull, but 

 both his sire and dam were of the orthodox light- 

 red. 



We had to record the show of Herefords at 

 Chester as a very admirable one, and that 

 last held in the native county was thought 

 never to have been equalled. At both these it will 



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be observed Claret distinguished himself, while the 

 family have long been W3ri-known in the strongholds 

 of the white-faces. In 1855, Restorative, a half- 

 brother to Claret, in addition to several other local 

 premiums, carried off the Great All England 

 Sweepstakes at Ludlow, for the best bull of any 

 breed. Candidate, another half-brother, was a 

 winner at Salisbury. 



Mr. Robert Smith, in his " Journal Report," 

 thus writes of the rise and value of the Here- 

 fords : 



"This race of cattle, which has long been dis- 

 tinguished for its splendid oxen, was shown in 

 greater numbers at Chester than at any previous 

 meeting of the Society, with the exception of 

 Shrewsbury, and formed one of the most attract- 

 ive classes. Their placid and beautiful counte- 

 nances—denoting that general mildness of temper 

 so necessary for the success of the grazier— to- 

 gether with their substance of flesh in proportion 

 to bone, could not fail to strike all who beheld 

 them. The Herefords clearly come under the same 

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