OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 331 



BRACELET AND NECKLACE 



134. In 1840 JOHN BOOTH of Killerby won first prize at the 

 Yorkshire Show at Northallerton with the roan three-year-old 

 heifer Bracelet, one of the first heifers of twin birth in the 

 Shorthorn breed to establish a noteworthy show record. Brace- 

 let sought stronger competitions the following year and in 1841 

 won first as an aged cow, both at the Royal at Liverpool and at 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society Show at Berwick. The 

 following year she and her twin sister swept the boards at York, 

 but Bracelet was defeated by Necklace at the Bristol Royal. In 

 1843 Necklace was again the premier cow of the pair, winning 

 first prize at Doncaster. These twins won over thirty-five class 

 and championship honors. Necklace closed her showyard life 

 by winning the gold medal against thirty-seven contestants at 

 the Smithfield Show in 1846, this time being exhibited as a 

 butcher's animal. It was as a breeder that Bracelet particularly 

 surpassed her noted twin. Her most noteworthy offspring was 

 the bull Buckingham (3239) that proved an exceptional sire in 

 the herd of RICHARD BOOTH at Warlaby. A show bull of 

 importance produced by Bracelet was the good Hamlet by 

 Leonard, while her calf of 1842, the red bull Morning Star, 

 was sold as a two-year-old to Louis Phillipe of France. Brace- 

 let's most noted daughter was the white show cow Birthday by 

 Lord Stanley (4269). Birthday herself was a famous breeder 

 and through her son, Lord George (10439), and his son, Second 

 Duke of Athol (11376), became incorporated into the pedigrees 

 of the famous Woodburn Duchesses of Airdrie (82). 



