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(2790). A daughter of the latter, Silver Star, swept 

 all England for a time, and was sold for export to 

 Australia. 



The Adforton show string had wonderful success 

 in 1869, and in 1874 the great pair of bull calves 

 Eegulator and Lord Wilton were sent into the lists. 

 These two prodigies were got by Sir Roger (4133), 

 son of Sir Thomas (2228), bred by B. Eogers. Eegu- 

 lator beat his stable companion at the Bath and West 

 and also at the Eoyal, but nearer home, at Leomin- 

 ster and Ludlow, Lord Wilton was preferred.* 



Eegulator was sold to go to New Zealand, and Lord 

 Wilton lived to almost revolutionize the Hereford 

 type in point of head and horn refinement. 



This herd was sold in September, 1877, and lead- 

 ing breeders gladly availed themselves of the oppor- 

 tunity to possess themselves of the blood that had 

 produced so many of the finest Herefords the world 

 had yet seen. Still prices were not yet on a high 



about 60 years of age came running- up all out of breath telling 1 

 Mr. Tudge, who responded to his call, "one of your best cows is 

 swelled in front something enormous, and will be dead directly 

 unless something can be done to save her." All hands ran out 

 into the meadow when it developed that it was only Lady Ad- 

 forton's big brisket that had started the trouble. Needless to 

 say, Bridgewater, the small farmer, never forgot nor heard the 

 last of that episode. Lady Adforton was the grandam of Lord 

 Wilton. 



*Speaking of Lord Wilton and Regulator, Mr. William Tudge, 

 Jr., says: "After Regulator's departure to New Zealand, ' Lord 

 Wilton had nothing else to fear, and took first at the Bath and 

 West at Croydon, the R. A. S. E. at Taunton, and the H. A. S. at 

 Hereford in 1875, and then went to Mr. Lewis Lloyd's at Monks 

 Orchard, having been sold by telegram at the Croydon meeting. 

 It is a singular thing that the only times Lord Wilton was ever 

 beaten in his class (when fit to show) was by Regulator and Reg- 

 ulus, both nearly related to himself, being by Sir Roger and of 

 the favorite Beauty blood, as was also Marmion (3242), the sire of 

 his dam, Lady Claire." 



Regulator's dam, Belladonna, produced twins in January, 1883, 

 a heifer in January, 1884, and in 1885, at the age of 15 years, twin 

 heifers. 



