viz., mottle face, white face, gray and 

 light gray. Sovereign was typical of 

 the modern Hereford in color, being 

 white of face, breast, belly, top of neck, 

 shanks and pasterns, and white brush 

 to tail. The best judges of those days, 

 it is said, found much of merit in this 

 bull, and he was hired out to the fol- 

 lowing distinguished breeders during the 

 fifteen years of his life: 



Robert Tench, Bromfleld, Salop. 

 Lord Sherborne, Gloucestershire. 

 Earl Ducfe, Gloucestershire. 

 Thomas Wells, Hamnet. 

 Richard Kilmister, The Grove. 

 Messrs. Hewer, Northleach. 

 Sir H. Hoskyns, Bart., Harewood. 

 Thomas Jeffries, The Grove. 

 Thomas Jeffries, Jr., Cotmore. 

 Edmund Jeffries, The Grove. 

 Richard Yeomans, Howton. 

 John Turner. Noke. 

 Messrs. Rogers, Sternsbach. 



The influence of Sovereign on the herds 

 owned by the breeders listed was simply 

 remarkable, and he did more to spread 

 abroad the fame of Hereford cattle than 

 any other animal in his time. So pre- 

 potent was he, and so successful was 

 Hewer, that many of the best Hereford 

 breeders of those days were induced to 

 introduce Hewer bulls into their herds. 

 "Sovereign is said to have done won- 

 ders in every herd he was used in," and 

 the mating of his blood with that from 

 Lottery (410) is said to have been still 

 more effective. Two men received very 

 marked benefits from using Sovereign in 

 their herds viz., Thomas Jeffries and 

 Sir Hungerford Hoskyns. They were 

 both famous breeders. The latter did 

 much to extend and improve the breed, 

 and during his time used fourteen dif- 

 ferent Hewer-bred bulls. 



Probably the most distinguished ani- 

 mal sired by Sovereign was Cotmore 

 (376) 150, which he sired when 15 years 

 old. He was bred by Thomas Jeffries 

 and was the first-prize Hereford male 

 at the initial show of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural society held at Oxford in 1839. 

 It is given in Hereford literature that 

 Cotmore weighed thirty-five hundred- 

 weight, or 3920 pounds, so that he was 

 an animal of most unusual size, while 

 his sire was not. Sovereign also sired 

 Wormelow, an animal of much merit, 

 owned by Sir H. Hoskyns. "and many 

 others of equal merit." Among his heif- 

 ers was Fatrumps, the first-prize cow 

 of 1840 at the Royal show. Spot, the 

 winning cow at the 1839 Royal, was by 

 a son of Sovereign. 



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