206 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



a real show heifer. Her dam, Regina, was by Heart 

 of Oak, a Monaughty-bred bull. Those who follow 

 our story closely will again meet this charming 

 heifer, the future dam of the great bull Anxiety. 

 . It thus appears that three grand animals made 

 their first appearance in public at Bedford show: 

 Tredegar, a champion winner many times; Regula- 

 tor, the companion bull to Lord Wilton, after win- 

 ning at the Bath and West of England sold to go to 

 New Zealand; and Helena, one of Stocktonbury 's 

 greatest celebrities. 



The Taunton Show of 1875. The Taunton Royal 

 of 1875 was an improvement on the Bedford 

 show of the year previous, as that had been over 

 the one at Hull the year before. Several celebrated 

 Herefords were competitors. In aged bulls Mr. 

 Edwards' Winter De Cote, now a long, deep and 

 massive animal, took first prize for the third time 

 at the Royal shows. He was a bull with plenty of 

 scale, character and style and full of thick heavy 

 natural flesh. Mr. H. J. Bailey's King of the Dale, 

 a straight lengthy bull also of good scale and fairly 

 good character, but lacking the substance and weight 

 of flesh of the winner, was second. In two-year- 

 olds Mr. Taylor's good bull and previous winner, 

 Tredegar, took the lead. He had all the character- 

 istics of a high-class Hereford bull, with nice color, 

 character and style, and scored a very easy win. 



Lord Wilton as a Yearling. In the yearling 

 bull class at Taunton the prize was conceded to Mr. 

 Tudge's Lord Wilton, a straight lengthy youngster 



