104 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



three-year-old the year lie won first at the Royal 

 at Reading for Mr. Platt in 1882 said : 



"Horace 4th, by Horace (3877), a sire remarkable 

 for an extraordinary faculty or unvarying ability to 

 impress upon his offspring his own characteristics, 

 and to impart to his immediate progeny the power 

 to further reproduce them, probably owed to the 

 male parent the particular merits which brought him 

 into the first place of honor at Reading. However 

 good, however distinct in excellence the dam might 

 be, the stock of Horace (so far as the contributor of 

 these notes has been able to observe and to learn) 

 always bore the mark and developed the special style 

 of that sire." 



At the Smithfield show of 1883 a three-year-old 

 son of Horace, flying the colors of Her Majesty the 

 Queen, captured the championship. This steer the 

 Queen had acquired of Mr. Platt for the sum of 100 

 and for the express purpose of winning the coveted 

 purple. 



Mr. Price meantime bought from Stephen Robin- 

 son of Lynhales* the Tudge-bred Regulus (4076), 

 half-brother to Lord Wilton and a bull of outstand- 

 ing merit. He traced straight back by way of Sir 

 Thomas and Sir Benjamin to Sir David. His get 

 were usually distinguished for "grandly-sprung ribs 

 and thick loins. " Regulus nicked well with the 

 Horace blood at Court House, one of the fruits of 

 that union being the handsome Hotspur (7028), the 



*One of Robinson's cows bred to old Horace produced Horatius 

 (5390), a bull that left good stock. Mr. Robinson used a lot of 

 valuable sires, including Sir Thomas (2129), Luxury (3233), Regu- 

 lus (4076), Horatius, Highland Laird (7015), Rose Stock (6651), etc. 

 Much good stock of Lynhales origin came to the United States. 



