380 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



test with Col. Gunter, who subsequently ac- 

 quired the bull (in 1867) at 440 guineas. He 

 was maintained in service at Wetherby until 

 his death at ten years of age in 1869. The 4th 

 Duke was sired by Duke of Gloster (11382) out 

 of Duchess 66th, and enjoyed with the 7th 

 Duke of York (17754) the distinction that at 

 tached at that time to the fact that the pair 

 were the only "pure" Duchess bulls in Eng- 

 land. Of his career abroad Mr. Thornton 

 writes: 



" The stock left by this bull is not only numerous but valuable, 

 showing the style and character for which the blood is remark- 

 able. Probably no bull earned more money in single fees. In ap- 

 pearance he was a fine-looking animal ; his head and crest were 

 magnificent, his hind quarters long and good, but the tail-head 

 was rather too high. His shoulders, which were perhaps a little 

 upright, made him appear somewhat deficient behind them, and 

 the great length of his quarters detracted from his middle. In 

 hair, quality of flesh, and in grandeur of style and carriage he 

 was wonderfully good." 



One of the 4th Duke of Thorndale's English- 

 bred heifers from a Cambridge Rose dam gave 

 rise to what is known as the Thorndale Roses, 

 the original heifer of that name being sold pri- 

 vately in 1864 for 200 guineas to Mr. Betts. 

 Her half-sister, The Beauty, by Puritan (9523), 

 for which Mr. Jonas Webb gave 160 guineas at 

 the Cobham Park sale, was bought by Lord 

 Braybrooke at Webb's sale of 1863 in calf with 

 Heydon Rose, which in the hands of his lord- 

 ship founded a costly family bearing her name. 

 Nine descendants of The Beauty at the Webb 



