deen 5th 356, a daughter of the famous 

 Paris show cow Pride of Aberdeen, shown 

 by McCombie. Thus Knight of St. Pat- 

 rick, as a result of inheritance, deserved 

 to be a great show bull and breeder, and 

 this inheritance he transmitted to his son 

 Black Knight. Blackcap, the dam of 

 Black Knight, was the most noted cow in 

 the herd of Gudgell & Simpson, and was 

 a most unusual breeder. She was bred 

 by Sir George MacPherson Grant at Bal- 

 lindalloch, Scotland, and cost Gudgell & 

 Simpson $2,050. Not only was she re- 

 garded as one of the very best cows in 

 the Scotch herd, but Gudgell & Simpson 

 thought her the best cow by far in their 

 herd. She was out of Blackcap of 

 Corskie 3d, 733, and was four generations 

 from Lady Ida, from whom the Black- 

 bird tribe derived its foundress. 



T. W. Harvey purchased the subject of 

 this sketch from Gudgell & Simpson for 

 $2,000, and he was taken to Turlington 

 early in 1886 by Mr. Watson, wnen he be- 

 gan service there. 



Black Knight was not purchased for 

 the show ring, but for the breeding herd, 

 and as a sire he made his fame. As an 

 individual, however, he was a fine type 

 of the breed, and is described as low, 

 deep and thick, with back, loin and quar- 

 ter covered with a thick layer of flesn 

 most smoothly laid on. He also had a 

 well-developed crest and a beautiful 

 head, while as a whole he was stylish and 

 possessed much quality and finish. 



The real, transcendant fame of this bull 

 came in 1893 as a result of the Angus 

 show at the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion. Three daughter of his Abbess of 

 Turlington 9327, Progress of Turlington 

 7116, and Heather Bloom of Turlington 

 7117 were placed in one, two, three order 

 in the aged cow class. Abbess and Prog- 

 ress were veritable sensations. In its re- 

 view of the Angus show or> this occasion 

 the correspondent of the Breeder's Ga- 

 zette wrote: "These two marvels of the 

 cattle breeder's art can neither be ade- 

 quately described nor satisfactorily de- 

 lineated. The readiest of writers and the 

 cleverest of artists may strive in vain to 

 convey to the minds of those who have 

 not seen the animals any clear-cut con- 

 ception of their character. They are as 

 fine and neat as they are big; as wide as 

 they are low, as thick at the ends as in 

 their middles, as round and full and deep 

 and smooth as nature's laws allow in the 



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