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however, to go to the extreme of Bakewell's 

 system and breed her back to her sire, for he 

 sent her to be bred to Richard Barker's Bull 

 (52), "a large, well-shaped, but coarse, wiry- 

 haired beast with a black nose." The produce 

 was the noted bull Foljambe (263), a white with 

 a few red spots, that seems to have combined 

 some of the good points of both sire and dam. 

 He was a big, wide-backed, "thick beast of 

 great substance," inheriting scale and constitu- 

 tion from his sire and some of Hubback's good 

 handling quality from his dam. Although sold 

 as a young bull at fifty guineas Foljambe was 

 used upon some of Colling's best cows ? among 

 others the rich red-roan Lady Maynard, the 

 produce being a heifer called Phoenix. To the 

 cover of Foljambe Lady Maynard's Dal ton 

 Duke heifer Young -Strawberry dropped the 

 bull Bolingbroke (86), called by Coates the 

 best bull he ever saw. It is at this point that 

 the Bakewell system was first tried. The Lady 

 Maynard heifer Phoenix (by Foljambe) was 

 bred to the Young Strawberry (daughter of 

 Lady Maynard) bull Bolingbroke (by Foljambe), 

 the produce of this close breeding being the 

 celebrated bull Favorite (252). It is claimed 

 by historians of the Bates Herd that this 

 mating was not directed as a well-matured 

 scheme. Phoenix had previously been bred to 

 Robert Colling's Ben (70). According to Bell 



