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and fore quarters, and also carried a beautiful 

 head and horn. She was a leading winner in 

 the Warlaby show herds from 1854 to 1858. 



The quartette of " Queens." The same Hal- 

 naby or Strawberry tribe that gave Warlaby 

 these Brides appeared again in full flower just 

 as Bride Elect began to lose her bloom;* Red 

 Rose, by Harbinger, producing to the cover of 

 Crown Prince that remarkable group of heifers 

 Queen of the May, Queen Mab, Queen of the 

 Vale, and finally the noble Queen o f the Ocean. 

 It is related that a blank check tendered by 

 Rev. J. Bolden for Red Rose the dam of these 

 celebrities when she was a heifer was refused. 

 Mr. Booth's vision as to her future usefulness 

 was in this case prophetic, as he was afterward 

 offered 1,500 guineas for Queen of the May, the 

 first of the daughters to enter the show-yard. 

 This heifer began winning as a yearling at the 

 Chelmsford Royal of 1856. Queen Mab, "the 

 Greek beauty/' entered the prize list as a year- 

 ling at the same society's show at Shrewsbury 

 in 1857. Queen of the Vale came forward in 

 1858. Queen of the Ocean was presented as a 

 cow at the Battersea Royal of 1862, receiving 

 first in her class and gold medal as best female 

 in the yard. That same year she won the 100- 



*Old Cuddy, longtime herdsman for Mr. Booth, would say: " Aye! yen's 

 poor auld Bride Elect. Did ye ever see sic an a breast and sic leegrht tim- 

 bers? Yan wad wonder how sic bane could bear sae muckle beef. Look at 

 her rumps and thighs, and loins, and aboon a', that breast 1 Why there be 

 an aist plenty for twa beasts 1 ' 



