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was a purchase with her half sister, Lady York and Thorndale 

 Bates 12th, a very taking young heifer, at present very level and 

 straight, with a wonderful attractive head and horn. The Cambridge 

 Roses have become so fashionable that a rising herd like that of 

 Mr. Titley's would not do to be behind the times, so at Audley End 

 both a Heydon and Thorndale Rose were purchased, the latter one 

 of the very best of the favourite branch which averaged for male 

 and female over =200 per head for the fifteen brought to the 

 hammer. Thorndale Rose 29th is seen in the owner's pretty park 

 near to Leeds, just the place for a few first class shorthorns, and two 

 or three of the special favourites are generally located there ; as 

 this heifer proudly walks to meet us carrying her head in that 

 graceful style becoming her high breeding she is the object of much 

 admiration, being the possessor of both hair and flesh in abundance, 

 with not the least sign of any delicacy of constitution discernable, 

 indeed a more robust looking heifer it would be difficult to wish for, 

 so it is yet within the range of possibilities to have both an excellent 

 animal and purity of blood combined, and always will be, provided 

 more discrimination be used in the mating of the animals, and when 

 brighter days dawn ones more for pedigree shorthorns, those breeders 

 who have kept unsullied the purity of the great Bates and Booth 

 tribes will most assuredly have a great and just reward, right well 

 will they deserve it, and let us hope that the day will not be long in 

 corning. Accompanying the two Roses from Essex were a very 

 shapely Knightley heifer, and Oxford King 51814, the young bull, 

 Lord Braybrooke had bought for the use of his Cambridge Roses 

 from Mr. Lloyd, a dark red son of Grand Duke 41st 46439, from 

 the Oxford calf that cost Mr. Lloyd over 900gs. at Stone Cross in 

 1878, he has not grown into a large bull but is of quite the Bates 

 character, with a capital masculine head and horn. 



The first important purchase by Mr. Henry Sharpley, of Limber 

 Magna, near Ulceby, formerly located at Ackthorpe Hall in this 

 County, was at the dispersion of the Biddenham herd in 1870, 

 where the Gwynnes were so much admired, Fairy Gwynne, and 

 Fancy Gwynne, daughters of Fifth Grand Duke 19875, having fallen 



