560 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



"sessions" with Watson and McCombie, the 

 great improvers of the Aberdeen- Angus polls. 

 His first great success with Short-horns fol- 

 lowed his purchase of the best cow sold at the 

 dispersion sale of Mason of Chilton the beau- 

 tiful roan Lady Sarah at 150 guineas. She was 

 a daughter of the massive roan cow Portia, 

 illustrated in the first volume of Coates' Herd 

 Book. At Ury she proved prolific, producing 

 the bulls Monarch (4495), Mahomed (6170), 

 Pedestrian (7321), Sovereign (7539), and the 

 three heifers, Julia, Cecily, and Helen. Bar- 

 clay was familiar with the Bakewell scheme of 

 the Collings, Bates, and the elder Booth, and 

 produced the valuable roan bull Mahomed, 

 above mentioned, by breeding Monarch back to 

 his own dam, Lady Sarah. Mahomed was sold 

 as a calf, but, developing into a capital bull, 

 was bought back in 1839. He appears to have 

 been used in the herd until 1841, and sired 

 among other valuable animals The Pacha 

 (7612), the progenitor of many animals after- 

 ward distinguished in Scotch Short-horn his- 

 tory. Lady Sarah's daughters Cecily and Helen 

 were sold to Mr. Pollock of County Meath, Ire- 

 land, along with their produce; and their de- 

 scendants were afterward to be seen in the 

 noted Booth-bred herd of Barnes of Westland. 

 Besides Mahomed Monarch sired the successful 

 stock bull BilJy (3151), that was sold as a calf 



