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Warnham Court, the residence of Mr. C. T. Lucas, is about the 

 same distance from Horsham, as Stammerham, and here we find a 

 herd of Bates bred cattle bred chiefly from the stocks of Messrs. 

 Blundell, Botterill. Cope, and Lloyd. Viscount Oxford 8th 50609, 

 a son of Lord Fitzhardinge's Duke of Leicester 3rd 46256, and 

 Viscountess Oxford 3rd, bought as a calf at the Castle Hill sale, has 

 developed into a masculine like bull, with a good broad chest, capital 

 loin, rib, and thighs, but hardly so well covered over his crops as 

 might be desirable. In the first pasture is Elvira llth, bred in 

 Cumberland, a good cow, excepting a somewhat plain head, and her 

 daughter, Duchess Elvira, a nice straight heifer, by Duke of Airdrie 

 27th 41351 ; Lady Secresy, and Lady Silence, own sisters, by Duke 

 of Oxford 32nd 36527, from Silence, were bought at the dispersion 

 of the AVoodside herd, and are a pair of prepossessing young animals 

 of precisely the same character, which should breed some good stock 

 for their owner. Strawberry Countess, tracing to the old Hartforth 

 blood, and in addition to a somewhat gaudy red and white calf 

 running by her side, has another daughter, Strawberry Queen, in the 

 same pasture, suckling a thick well made youngster, by the Oxford 

 bull. Rosy Countess 3rd, hailing from Harewoods, like Strawberry 

 Countess, has Duke of Airdrie 27th 41351, for sire, and on the 

 dam's side is of the Knightley "Walnut tribe. The last to be noticed 

 is Lady Fortunate 5th, a grand old cow, bought at Wauldby. 

 Passing on to the farm at Warnham Place we have a stylish heifer 

 in Skittish, bred in Ireland, by Mr. Cope, and of the Revelry tribe, 

 once popular at Dunmore ; in her company are Vestris 125th, from 

 Summersbury ; Lady Cowslip, out of Lady Fortunate 5th; and a 

 pretty yearling daughter of the older of the two Surmise sisters. 

 In a yard under cover are seen Millie, and her bull calf of the Sultana 

 family, formally at Wateringbury. Clydesdales, find favour at 

 Warnham Court, where Mr. Lucas' son, Mr. C. J. Lucas, has a select 

 stud. Before returning to Horsham, we walk across to the 

 Biomhall Farm, consisting of 240 acres, where a capital set of 

 buildings, highly finished in every respect, have recently been 

 erected by Mr. Lucas. 



