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prize-winners. When the sweepstakes ring was called from thirty 

 to forty cows and heifers put in an appearance. One of the young 

 ladies remarked that she would bet that I could not name the 

 winner. I asked her to name the stake. She laughingly said that 

 she did not know what she had to bet unless it would be herself, 

 so it was soon arranged that I should bet myself against her. She 

 granted me the privilege of accepting the invitation that Mr. War- 

 field had tendered me of examining the animals before the awards 

 were made. Upon returning to the amphitheater I named Emma 

 Hickman (Vol. VIII, p. 338) , that had just turned her two-year 

 mark, and she won the blue ribbon and I won the girl and got the 

 stakes. Of course it was a safe bet, for had she won I would 

 have paid. It was my first and last bet, and, as getting married is 

 a game of chance anyway, I have never been censured for making 

 it. And as I had proved (to myself at least) that I knew a good 

 one (cow, and girl, too) I concluded to make Short-horn breeding 

 my business, and under the circumstances I do not think that 

 even the Hereford or the 'doddie' men would wonder at my be- 

 coming a Short-horn breeder." 



Sweepstakes 6230. Mr. PickrelPs promi- 

 nence in the Western Short-horn trade may be 

 said to date from the year 1865, when he pur- 

 chased from George M. Bedford of Kentucky 

 the red-and-white Rose of Sharon bull Sweep- 

 stakes 6230 at $600 as a yearling. Mr. Bedford 

 had bought the bull as a calf from his breeder, 

 Abram Renick, for $150. Mr. Pickrell had. pre- 

 viously seen Minister 6363 and liked him so well 

 that he would have been willing to purchase 

 him at a long price, but Mr. Duncan would not 

 part with him. Sweepstakes had won a cham- 

 pionship at the Bourbon County Fair as a year- 

 ling, having been "made up" for that show by 

 the late John Hope, afterward prominent in 

 connection with the Bow Park Short-horns in 



