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brother Richard had purchased Venus Victrix 

 at the top price of the sale (175 guineas) and 

 afterward presented her to her former owner. 

 She was successfully exhibited at leading shows 

 from 1852 to 1856, and also produced the two 

 bulls King Arthur and King Alfred, both by 

 Crown Prince, besides two choice heifers, Vic- 

 trix and Venus de Medicis. The latter was sold 

 to Mr. Douglas for 300 guineas and shown at 

 the Paris Exposition. At Mr. Booth's death in 

 1857 his sons inherited this Venus Victrix tribe, 

 as well as the descendants of Hecuba, by Hope- 

 well; among the latter being the noted Forest 

 Queen and Queen of Trumps. Hecuba was of 

 the real rent-paying sort a heavy milker and 

 quick feeder. Another grand cow in the herd 

 at this time was Soldier's Dream, of the old 

 Moss Rose sort. Her dam had been presented 

 to John Booth's sons by their uncle Richard. 



Warlaby and its show-yard wonders. We 

 now approach the zenith of Booth fame the 

 later achievements of that Achilles of British 

 show-yard war, Richard Booth (late of Stud- 

 ley), who succeeded to his father's estate of 

 Warlaby, in the grassy valley of the Wiske, in 

 1835. In his later years Thomas Booth had not 

 endeavored to give the herd at Warlaby any 

 special prominence. He had devoted fifty 

 years of his useful life to the interests of the 

 breed, and had lived to see the type created by 



