84 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HOEN CATTLE. 



pal butchers in Newcastle and Shields came to 

 buy his stock at home. 



Removal to Kirklevington. May 1, 1830, 

 Mr. Bates transferred his residence and breed- 

 ing operations from Ridley Hall which he had 

 sold to Kirklevington; included in the herd, 

 which was driven across country, being "fifty 

 cows and heifers by 2d Hubback, all as alike as 

 beans and leaving a great impression wherever 

 they passed." 2d Hubback was let the following 

 year to Whitaker, and, disappointed in the de- 

 velopment of a yearling bull from Duchess 22d 

 that he had intended to use, Bates bought from 

 Whitaker for 100 guineas the bull Gambler 

 (2046) by Bertram (1716), a bull of Colling's Old 

 Daisy tribe that had just been sold to Col. 

 Powell for shipment to America. Gambier's 

 dam was of the Western Comet or Gentle 

 Kitty blood. Gambier did not satisfy Bates as 

 a stock-getter, and hearing of Mr. Stephenson's 

 roan bull of the old Princess blood he went to 

 see him. 



Belvedere (1706) of the Princess blood. In 

 the accepted accounts of the purchase of this 

 bull we have a striking example of Mr. Bates' 

 supreme self-confidence. He believed in the 

 Hubback and Duchess blood above everything 

 else. He claimed he had founded his herd 

 upon the best cow of the breed in her day. 

 He had been successful with Ketton 1st and The 



