130 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



first; Isabella Buckingham was first-prize two- 

 year-old, and Charity the first-prize yearling. 

 At the same show held at York in 1848 Hope, 

 Charity and Isabella were all winners. At the 

 Norwich Royal of 1849 Charity was first and 

 Isabella second, Cherry Blossom heading the 

 post-graduate class, and at the Highland Show 

 at Glasgow they repeated in Scotland what 

 they had accomplished " South o' Tweed." 



Meantime Hope had produced to Buckingham 

 the roan bull Hopewell (10332), that early dem- 

 onstrated his mettle by winning first as a year- 

 ling at Leeds in 1849. Hopewell became a sire 

 of great renown, Mr. Booth receiving for his 

 services while on hire in various herds the great 

 sum of 1,000. To the cover of Cherry Blos- 

 som's own brother, Baron Warlaby (7813), Hope 

 gave birth to the short-legged, thrifty roan bull 

 Harbinger (10297), that won as a yearling at 

 the Exeter Royal of 1850, and afterward proved 

 a wonderful stock-getter, siring the prize cow 

 Bridesmaid and Red Rose, the dam of the won- 

 derful "Queens" to be mentioned further on. 

 He also became known on this side of the At- 

 lantic as the sire of Mr. Alexander's imp. Ma- 

 zurka, ancestress of a very noted American 

 tribe. Isabella Buckingham was first-prize cow 

 at same show. 



Windsor (14013) and the Blossoms. We have 

 already noted the appearance of the first of this 



