620 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



It was the cross of Lord Sackville upon the 

 Secret cows that first brought that sort up to 

 the Sittyton standard. A portrait of Matadore 

 will be found in Vol. X of Coates' Herd Book. 

 Plantagenet (11906). This red-and-white 

 bull, bred by Col. Towneley, had been bought 

 as a calf by Douglas of Athelstaneford, who 

 sold him to Mr. Cruickshank as a yearling in 

 1852. He was sired by Duke of Lancaster 

 (10929) bred by Mr. Eastwood and got by 

 Lax's Duke (9032), sire of Towneley's famous 

 Frederick (11489) out of Madeline,, bred by 

 John Booth of Killerby. Plantagenet was 

 shown at Aberdeen as a yearling, winning first 

 prize, but died after one year's service at Sitty- 

 ton. He was the sire of the twin heifer calves 

 Virtue and Verdure, that became the dams of 

 two of the greatest bulls ever known in Scot- 

 landVirtue producing, to a service by Lan- 

 caster Comet (11663), the most renowned of 

 all Cruickshank bulls Champion of England 

 (17526). Her sister, Verdure, bred to The 

 Baron (13833), dropped Scarlet Velvet (16916), 

 a very stylish bull that had a successful career 

 in the herd of Mr. Campbell. It is stated that 

 Mr. Cruickshank did not credit Plantagenet 

 very largely in connection with the production 

 of Champion of England, that honor being at- 

 tributed rather to Lancaster Comet. Virtue 

 and Verdure and another Plantagenet cow 



