164 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



folk. Napoleon '3d had been a medal bull at the 

 Paris exposition. Mr. E. Price's Goldfinder, bred 

 by John Perry, took second prize. Carpenter 's 

 Carlisle Beauty was the winner in the cow class. 

 She had already won a gold medal at the Paris In- 

 ternational Exposition. 



At Salisbury in 1857 Mr. E. Williams' Eadnor 

 (1366), the first-prize bull calf at Carlisle, captured 

 the aged bull prize, and Edward Price, with Mag- 

 net 3d, was first in two-year-olds. In the cow class 

 Lord Berwick's Carlisle, by Albert Edward, dam 

 Silver, by Emperor (221), took first. Carlisle was 

 afterwards sold to Mr. Thomas Duckham, the Here- 

 ford Herd Book editor, and sired many prize win- 

 ners. 



Chester, Warwick and Canterbury. It was at 

 the Chester Eoyal of 1858 that Sir David's great 

 son Sir Benjamin (1387) first made his appearance 

 in public, winning second prize in the aged bull 

 class. Price's Goldfinder 2d took first. The latter 

 was five years and eleven months old, and Sir Ben- 

 jamin but two years and four months, so that he 

 was three years and seven months younger than 

 his chief competitor. There were nine exhibits in 

 the class, some of them good ones, as is indicated 

 by the report given in the Eoyal Agricultural So- 

 ciety's journal: 



"Aged bulls; 9 entries. These animals displayed 

 such uniformity of character, symmetry and sub- 

 stance that it must have puzzled the judges to dis- 

 tinguish any of them. The prize bull, the property 

 of Mr. Price, Court House, girthed 8 feet 7 inches ; 



