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restored at the head of the herd several years 

 later, after repeated efforts and the expenditure 

 of large sums of money in endeavoring to find 

 satisfactory stock bulls. The ultimate verdict 

 was that had Craven Knight received full op- 

 portunity he would possibly have equaled the 

 record of Baron Victor as a sire. 



A search for sires. Another imported bull 

 tested at Lin wood was the red Thistletop 83876, 

 imported in 1885 by Mr. Davidson. He left 

 some good stock, among others the bulls El 

 Sabio 103105, used some before being sold, and 

 Thistlewood 95417, from imp. Victoria 63d 

 the last sire used in the herd of J. H. Potts & 

 Son. A trial was also made of imp. Eoyal 

 Pirate 100640, imported direct from Sittyton 

 and sired by Gondolier 98287 out of Victoria 

 77th by Dunblane. This was a bull of great 

 scale, with a remarkable back, but scarcely as 

 compactly fashioned as the best of the Scotch 

 type. 



Several other home-bred bulls were tested. 

 One of these, Lord Mayor 112727, was a good 

 red, sired by Baron Lavender 2d out of imp. 

 Lady of the Meadow, one of the best breeding 

 matrons of the herd. It was from Lord Mayor 

 and old Norton's Golden Drop that the red 

 Golden Lord 119422, chief stock sire in service 

 at the dispersion of the herd, was produced. 

 Galahad 103259, a short-legged, well-fleshed red 



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