THOMAS BATES AND THE DUCHESSES. 95 



Prizes at Cambridge, Having, as he thought, 

 vindicated the honor of his Duchesses at Ox- 

 ford, Mr. Bates decided not to risk fitting and 

 showing any of them "the following year. Still 

 smarting under the defeat of Red Rose 13th at 

 York, he sent her to the Royal at Cambridge, 

 along with Cleveland Lad (3407) and a young 

 Waterloo bull calf by Duke of Northumber- 

 land. Red Rose here had her revenge, winning 

 first in a class of six cows. Her name was then 

 changed to Cambridge Premium Cow. The 

 Waterloo calf also won, but Cleveland Lad was 

 turned down, the prize falling to Hero (4021), a 

 roan owned in Norfolk; a bull which Cadwal- 

 lader Bates asserts was "never heard of before 

 nor since."* His picture may be found in 

 Coates' Herd Book, Vol. IV. Cleveland Lad 

 had not been specially fitted for show; and fat, 

 then as now, was a prime necessity. The prizes 

 won by the Kirklevington cattle at the two 

 great university cities led to many inquiries 

 for the blood. 



A "brush" with the Booths. In 1841 Cleve- 

 land Lad was sent to the Liverpool Royal alone, 

 he being the only member of the show herds 

 left without "vindication"; and he was there 

 placed by the judges at the head of the bulls 



* It is related that "a gentleman came up to Bates in the show-yard and 

 said: 'Had I been blindfolded I could have told all of your cattle by the 

 feel of my fingers.' 'As the stewards of the yard hear your remarks, I 

 hope in the future the judges will be blindfolded,' was Bates' reply." 



