750 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Hope's last appearance in the show-ring in 

 the States was in the fall of 1889. He had pur- 

 chased imp. Cupbearer that spring at the Adams 

 sale at Chicago, and to avoid a troublesome 

 quarantine had placed him in the capable hands 

 of Mr. William H. Gibson, manager for B. C. 

 Rumsey at Niagara Stock Farm, Buffalo 1ST. Y. 

 It must be said to Gibson's credit that the bull 

 was brought out that fall in rare bloom. When 

 he appeared at the head of the Bow Park Herd 

 at the Detroit Exposition September, 1889, he 

 was fit to stand for the credit of the breed in 

 any company. He was shown at a weight of 

 2,500 Ibs., and barring a little tendency to 

 "roll" at the shoulder was as smooth as a year- 

 ling. Richard Gibson was the judge upon this 

 occasion, and while sending Cupbearer to head 

 the aged bull class, when it came to the cham- 

 pionship he passed him in favor of Bow Park's 

 yearling Baron Waterloo, got by Baron War- 

 laby 78878 out of Wave Surge by 57th Duke 

 of Oxford, tracing through Mr. Torr's "W's." 

 Aylesby and its Short-horn tribes never failed 

 to arouse the enthusiasm of Richard, "and as 

 Baron Waterloo was really a well-ripened, good- 

 fleshed bull there was some basis for defense of 

 his unexpected decision placing the yearling 

 over the table-backed Scot. Hope won in the 

 cow class with Havering Nonpareil 2d, although 

 Mr. Abram Renick, the younger who had sue- 



