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one of the instances where he manifested real 

 genius as a cattle-breeder. Belvedere's sire, 

 Waterloo (2816), and dam, Angelina 2d, were 

 own brother and sister; the pedigree therefore 

 represented an extraordinary concentration of 

 the blood of old Princess* and Favorite (252). 



There was really something of a bull went 

 with that head and pedigree. Belvedere was 

 six years old at the time Bates bought him. 

 Stephenson was allowed to name his own price 

 and was modest enough to place it at 50. This 

 occurred June 22, 1831. The next day the bull 

 was driven to Kirklevington. No sooner had 

 Bates got him than he announced that he would 

 by the union of the Princess and Duchess blood 

 produce * ' Short-horns such as the world h as never 

 seen," and in the opinion of some capable judges 

 he very nearly made good his boast. The bull 

 with which he boldly proclaimed he would make 

 the "hit" of his life as a breeder was a big one, 

 possessing extreme length and heavy shoulders, 



* The Princess cow had been bought originally from Robert Colling by 

 Sir Henry Vane Tempest at the reputed great price of 700 guineas. Sir 

 Henry's widow, the Countess of Antrim, had the cow bought at the Wyn- 

 yard sale in 1813, and sent her to Barmpton to be bred to the bull Wellington 

 (680), a son of Comet (156). Colling told her agent that he " never allowed 

 any gentleman's cows " to be served by his bull, and so could not comply 

 with Lady Antrim's request. The agent of the Countess started to return 

 to Wynyard, when Colling's servant came running after him to say that he 

 had told his master that Princess was not a geritleman's cow but a lady's, 

 and that Colling was so amused at the sly intercession that he at once 

 waived his rule upon the point of giving his bull's services to other breed- 

 ers and would permit Princess to be bred. The thrifty Yorkshire man, 

 however, did not permit his gallantry to prevent his charging her ladyship 

 ten g-ood guineas for the service. The produce of this coupling was the 

 bull Young Wynyard, sire of Waterloo (2816). 



