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had striking successes. North Star blood proved 

 highly effective also at Ladykirk through Sultan 

 (1485), as that bull was out of a cow by the " Star." 

 The herd at Pitcorthie was a small one. When it 

 was dispersed on llth October 1818 its strength was 

 37 head 12 cows, 5 two-year-old heifers, 4 one-year- 

 old heifers, 7 bulls, 3 bull calves, and 6 heifer calves. 

 The general average was almost 40, and the English 

 purchasers considered they had got " great bargains." 

 Sultan ultimately came into the possession of Sam 

 Wiley of Brandsby, and there he produced Sultana, 

 which became the dam of Carcase (3285), a great 

 show bull and noted breeder. 



Writing to Cottrell in 1833, Mr Wiley recounted : 

 " Now I have got a bull out of the North very 

 much to my mind. He is of great size ; his breast 

 is wide and deep ; his shoulder points are very fine ; 

 his crops, fore rib, and girth are extraordinary ; his 

 hind ribs are the best, and come the nearest to his 

 hips (which are wide and handsome) I ever saw ; 

 and what is best of all, his inclination to fatten sur- 

 passes that of any bull I ever fed." Then he goes on 

 to state that the bull's name was Sultan, and that he 

 was bred by General Simson. As Sultan was calved 

 in 1818, he was fifteen years old when Wiley wrote 

 as above noted (Sinclair's History, pages 384-85). 



In Bell's History it is stated that General Watson 

 of Aberdour, Fife, bought Princess, by Hubback, from 

 Charles Colling, in 1789, but I have been unable to 

 find any reference to this General in any contemporary 

 writings. 



