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Mowbray ; sold at Langtori Hall to Canon Wilkinson, she was 

 re-sold to Mr. Leadbitter. Royal Rosedale, bred by Mr. T. Lambert, 

 is near calving, and has already one daughter, Lady Rosedale, in the 

 herd. Bride Elect, a very pretty light roan, deep before with 

 obliquely laid shoulders, and good back, came from the Musgrave 

 Hall sale. Lady of the Maze, a daughter of the Warlaby King Harry, 

 with seven bsautiful Booth crosses upon a Mason foundation, was 

 bied at Barmoor, and after presenting her new owner with a 

 white bull, by King Rudolf, to be named Lord of the Meadow, has 

 been sent and returned home safe in calf to King Hal. Sonsy 4th, 

 bred by Mr. Leadbitter, descending from the stock of Sir W. M. 

 Ridley Bart., is companion to Orange Girl, a fine handsome well 

 ribbed daughter of Mr. J. B. Booth's Prince Regent, and Orange 

 Blossom 2nd, of Messrs. Arigus's Premium tribe. Mr. Leadbitter, 

 it may be added, has since been the purchaser of four lots at Canon 

 Wilkinson's sale. 



Mr. W. D. Cruddas has also a small herd at Wydon Burn, near 

 Hexham, with Wild Prince of Oxford 6th, bred at Capheaton, out 

 of Wild Princess 5th, as the sire in service. The most numerous 

 are Mr. Macintosh's Lady Birds, descended from Lady Beverley, and 

 Lady Benson, own sisters, by Sir John Swinburne's Earl of Beverley 

 41471, from Lady Mary, purchased at Wallington in 1879, and 

 which laid the foundation of this herd. I)\om Mr. Toppin's recent 

 sale came Waterloo 36th, a daughter of Baron Oxford 5th, and 

 Waterloo 33rd, bred by Mr. R. B. Hetherington when at Park 

 Head, as well as Alice Gwynne, of Lord Zetland's branch of the 

 Gwynnes, and Gay Butterfly, out of a very fine cow, Golden 

 Butterfly, of the once famous Barmpton Rose tribe. 



At Newton, near Bellingham, Mr. Robsori has an evenly bied 

 herd composed mainly of the "J" branch of the Princess tiibe, 

 descended from Jessy, a daughter of Col. Kingscote's Oxford Beau 

 3rd, and Lady Villiers, bred at Thicket Priory, the highest priced of 

 the family at Shot ley Hall, in September, 1876, where she was 

 purchased by Mr. Robson, and he has now eight females descended 

 from her. In 1884, G<and Duke of Kiiklevington 4th, a grandson 



