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Duchesses of Hillhurst and the 2d Duke of Hill- 

 hurst. 



The event demonstrated that Mr. Cochrane's 

 judgment was, as usual, not at fault.* The 

 yearling 5th Duchess of Hillhurst was taken 

 by Earl Bective at 4,300 guineas, the highest 

 price ever paid for a cow in Great Britain; the 

 yearling 3d Duchess went to R. Loder at 4,100 

 guineas, and the six-year-old 2d Duke of Hill- 

 hurst to A. H. Longman at 800 guineas. The 

 Bates-bred heifers Marchioness of Barrington 



* This sale was one of the few events in Short-horn history to which a 

 genuine international interest attached. While no American bidders were 

 present the occasion stirred the British Short-horn breeding fraternity to 

 its very depths. Senator Cochrane had shrewdly baited his hook to attract 

 the heavy-weigrhts of both the Bates and Booth factions. The excitement 

 was intense, as record prices were made on the Duchess heifers, and after 

 the sale a rather clever parody entitled "The Farmada, by Thomas Bab- 

 blington Mock-a-lay," appeared in the London Liver-Stock Journal, from 

 which we make the following excerpts: 



"High on his break sits Bective; meek near the ring stands Torr. 

 While Staniforth with Loder hold with Allsopp friendly war; 

 There is Crosbie from wild Kerry and Foster from Killhow, 

 There is Salt from busy Bradford and Longman from 'The Bow;' 

 The rival strains commingle and forget their deadly hates, 

 As now the cry's for Booth blood and now again for Bates. 

 But hark! the war commences, fair shines the sun upon 

 The friendly legions marshalled by the wand of 'Honest John.' 

 At first the bids are modest, and the small men have their way, 

 But fiercer grows the struggle when the giant 'plungers' say. 

 A Duchess proudly walks the ring and 'thousands' fly like hail, 

 But Whittlebury scores the prize, the second of the sale; 

 The vales of Troutbeck ring 1 with cheers and echo back the sounds 

 As Hillhurst's Third is landed for o'er four thousand pounds. 



Waves now the field for Warlaby as Vesper Star comes in, 

 And silent though the Bates men are the Booths maintain the dlo, 

 A Crosbie wins the maiden for a thousand guineas down, 

 Nor rues the lucky bid that claimed her for his own. 

 More Stars shine forth in beauty and make but little stay. 

 For sturdy Booth is 'wanted' and quickly wins its way." 

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