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find a considerable change in roaming at large with the matrons, to 

 his last year's work. Young Briton 49201, on'^ of the famous 

 Aylesby Flowers, has many good points about him, while Fred 

 Benedict 49606, is full of the blood that has been so famous at 

 Carperby for being associated with prize winners. 



From Salisbury, we pass into the northern corner of Dorsetshire, 

 and in the Vale of Blackmoor, the Rev. R. B. Kennard, at Marnhull, 

 has been a breeder of shorthorns for nearly five and twenty years. 

 The famous Siddington herd being first resorted to, but it was in 

 1865 that the foundations of the Lady Marnhulls and Queens (both 

 names very familiar in connection with Mr. Kennard's herd), were 

 obtained at Mr. Margetson's sale, in Wiltshire. The third family 

 which has had a long and honourable connection with the name of 

 Marnhull, are the Blossoms, tracing to Certainty's daughter, 

 Bi-awith Lass, through the Hon. Noel Hill's Belinda, by Mr. Booth's 

 Sir Roger 16991, and one of her produce, named Blossom, bred by 

 the late Lord Penrhyn, coming into Mr. Kennard's possession, laid 

 the foundation of what are now known as the Blossoms. The sires 

 in service have generally contained a preponderance of Bates blood. 

 Duke of Montrose 23771, a son of 7th Duke of York 17754, from 

 Duchess of Richmond, a grand-daughter of Ursula, was first purchased 

 from Mr. Stiles Rich, then the Brailes herd supplied Lord Stanley 

 2nd 26745, of the Surmise tribe. Lord Braybrooke's Grand Duke 

 of Oxford 28763, proved the sire of the illustrious Queen Mary, the 

 winner of the Havering Park Challenge Cup three tiraes in succession, 

 and for three years she occupied premier place in her class at the 

 Royal, while as the sequence numerous other victories resulted. 

 The 7th Duke of York's blood was further introduced in the herd 

 by the use of the Gazelle bull, Lord Fitzclarence 24th 401 63. Prince 

 of Geneva 22nd 43824, one of the best young bulls at the dispersion 

 of the Churchill Heath herd, had the least Bates blood in his pedigree 

 of any of the purchased sires used at Marnhull ; he traced to No. 

 40, Chilton sale, through Pye, which was a very favourite family at 

 Broadmoor, and had Grand Duke of Geneva 2nd 31288, for sire and 

 grand-sire, with Col. Townley's Royal Butterfly 20th 25007, a degree 



