Stan way (2790), bred by William Tudge, 

 and the first-prize aged Hereford bull 

 at the Royal at Oxford in 1870, was a 

 great-grandson of Sir David. In fact, 

 as one glances along down the line of 

 great show winners in England between 

 1850 and 1870, he must be impressed with 

 the great part the blood of Sir David 

 plays in the pedigrees of these animals. 

 Here one finds sons and daughters, 

 grandsons and granddaughters, and still 

 others, winning the choicest places in 

 Hereford competition. 



Back to Sir David do we trace some 

 of the choicest blood lines of American 

 Hereford stock. Corrector and Improver, 

 two of T. F. B. Sotham's great bulls, 

 trace back on both sire and dam's side 

 to Sir David. The Grove 3d 2490, Earl 

 of Shadeland 22d 27147. Garfield 7015, Sir 

 Richard 2d 970a, Cassio 11353 and a host 

 of others descend in various degrees 

 from Sir David. 



British authors that discuss the Here- 

 ford breed pay high tribute to this bull. 

 William Housman, one of the very best 

 authorities on the beef breeds in Eng- 

 land, in his excellent work on "Cattle, 

 Their Breeds and Management," refer- 

 ring to this bull, says: "The iafluence 

 of Sir David as a sire proved t||rbe one 

 of those extraordinary powers which in 

 the histories of breeds occasionally rise 

 up far beyond the expectations of the 

 breeders from whose herds they come 

 forth." He further says: "It is not 

 possible here to enumerate the illustrious 

 descendants of Sir David: the prize lists 

 of the leading agricultural societies are 

 full of them." Macdonald and Sinclair, 

 in their work on "The History of Here- 

 ford Cattle," class Sir David as "one of 

 the most influential sires known in the 

 history of the Hereford or of any other 

 breed of cattle." 



This bull was used in eight different 

 herds, but he was most intimately iden- 

 tified perhaps with those of Edward 

 Price, Court House, Pembridge, and 

 Lord Berwick, at Cronkhill. He passed 

 his latter days in Lord Berwick's herd, 

 where he sired a number of animals of 

 merit, including Conqueror (1929). At 15 

 years of age he was sold to a butcher 

 a most miserable and degraded ending 

 for a bull that had contributed so much 

 during a long lifetime to the uplifting of 

 a breed. Certainly he was entitled to 

 a more generous treatment in the sunset 

 of life. 



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