150 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



claimed the honor of having produced the winner 

 in Napoleon (1334). The Yelds, like the Jeffries, 

 had for some years bred many cattle and possessed 

 some of the best blood in the country, well main- 

 taining the credit of the breed. Mr. Yeld was a 

 great believer in character and quality, and his sale 

 in 1852 was a memorable one to all Hereford pedi- 

 gree men. The Duke of Bedford, who was a great 

 admirer of the Herefords, was the exhibitor of Na- 

 poleon when he won this first prize at Cambridge. 

 The winning cow of that year, Fatrumps, was bred 

 and exhibited by another staunch supporter of the 

 breed, Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Bart. She, like 

 Cotmore, had Sovereign (404) for a sire, and her 

 dam was a Tully cow by Hewer's Waxy 2d (403). 



Bristol, Derby and Southampton. At the Bris- 

 tol Royal of 1842 Mr. John Yeomans appears 

 as the breeder and exhibitor of the winner, Eoyal 

 (331), a son of Cotmore (376), the Oxford first- 

 prize winner. BoyaPs dam, Countess, bred by 

 Turner of The Noke, was also exhibited by Mr. Yeo- 

 mans and won first prize at this same Bristol meet- 

 ing. 



At the next show, that of Derby in 1843, Mr. 

 Thomas Jeffries of The Grove had the first prizes 

 with a bull and cow both of his own breeding. The 

 bull, Confidence, had been the winner of the first 

 prize and championship that year at Gloucester, 

 and he again won it there the year following, to- 

 gether with a 50-guinea cup as champion bull. At 

 the Hereford show he won as best two-year-old, 



