2 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENOLA.ND. 



Let us hark back to tha day when the owner then Mr. Robert 

 G-unter of Earl's Court, made his first start in breeding, and that 

 was on August 21st, 1853, at the great Tortworth sale, where he 

 and Mr. Tanqueray opposed Mr. Thorne and the Agent of Messrs. 

 Becar and Morris so successfully as to lay claim to four out of the 

 eight female Duchesses. The " Usurer " cow and Duchess 70th 

 fell to the new beginner's share at 660 gs. the pair, while Duchess 

 69th and Oxford llth two of his colleague's purchases, afterwards 

 joined their former stable companions along with 6th Duke of 

 Oxford. In August '57, Earl's Court saw the herd no more, and 

 Wetherby became their home, and it was here that Duchess 77th 

 was born, .the result of the union of 6th Duke of Oxford and 

 Duchess 70th. She proved victorious at Leeds in '61, besides 

 winning 25 other cups and prizes ; until the Royal came to York, 

 in '83 no other of this tribe was exhibited by the owner, and then 

 9th Duke of Tregunter appeared in the two-year-old class and 

 came away with the Reserve Number. But alas ! the Agents of 

 the French Government had seen and would not be denied. It is 

 a mere matter of history how Duchesses 97, 101, and 103 were 

 bought for Canada by the enterprising Mr. Cochrane, and how Lord 

 Dunmore bought the pair of heifer calves from the two latter fo" 

 2500 gs., the exact price of the dams the year previous. It is to 

 the Wetherby Duchess that Bates breeders are indebted for the 

 Dukes of Clarence, Claro, Tregunter, Wetherby, and Wharfdale, 

 as well as 7th and 8th Dukes of York. It was the Duchesses that 

 made Wetherby a household word amongst Bates men ; but from 

 time to time other tribes were introduced into the herd, the most 

 fashionable being the Wild Eyes in 1867 by the purchase of Mild 

 Eyes bred by the late Mr. Anthony Maynard. Daffodil, and 

 Darlington 14th bred at Lillingstone Dayrell, and Penryhn Castle, 

 were the foundation of the Darlingtinas, and Ada, a daughter of old 

 America by Marmaduke, claims the Acomb tribe as her descendants ; 

 the principal families in point of numbers are the Blanches and Miss 

 Beverleys of more recent acquisition. 



