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blaze of glory with the ribbons flying from McMul- 

 lin's horns. Fire often flashes into one last brilliant 

 flare before it turns to ashes. So with Clarence 

 Kirklevington. The race of his kind was almost 

 run, but his victories glorified their declining days. 



Regulus and Grace. In 1885 Fowler & Van- 

 Natta again turned the tide, obtaining the coveted 

 premier position with the brockle-faced bullock 

 Regulus. Notable features were the return of the 

 great Anxiety steer Suspense, the. appearance of 

 the captivating yearling grades by Earl's Sir Bartle 

 Frere, Swan Bros.' sensational Hereford cow 

 Grace, Elbert & Fall's sappy Shorthorn yearling 

 Cleveland, Morrow & Renick's famous short-tailed 

 broad-loined Shorthorn-grade Schooler, J. J. Hill's 

 black Benholm, and Gudgell & Simpson's Angus 

 Sandy. 



Rudolph Jr., Nigger, Sandy and Plush. The 

 year 1886 brought the first two-year-old champion, 

 in fact, developed three two-year-olds whose su- 

 periors as a trio have not since been seen; and 

 most significant fact of all, neither carried Short- 

 horn blood. This was a sweeping away of 1878 

 standards with a vengeance, both in respect to age, 

 type and blood! 



George Morgan, manager for the Wyoming Here- 

 ford Cattle Co., exhibited two of these one the 

 purebred Rudolph Jr., by the $3,500 imported 

 show bull, "the mighty Rudolph," by The Grove 

 3d; the other a white-faced black-poll named Nig- 

 ger. The third was Gudgell & Simpson's Sandy, a 



