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of Colonel Gunter's Duchess exhibits at Dumfries 

 Highland, Having an intense admiration for the 

 Killerby Bracelet line of breeding, he paid Colonel 

 Towneley 500 gs. for Knight, which produced another 

 great all-round winner in Maid of Athelstane and 

 Queen of Athelstane, the latter being considered by 

 Lady Pigot to be the nearest approach to perfection. 

 Her ladyship paid 500 gs. for Queen, and had dreams 

 of conquest, but the heifer died before the Leeds 

 Royal came round. 



Mr Douglas had wonderful honours at the Aberdeen 

 Highland of 1858. He was first in cows with Ringlet ; 

 first and second in two-year-old heifers with Queen of 

 Trumps and Venus de Medicis ; and first, second, and 

 third in yearling heifers with Titania, Luna, and 

 Grand Sultana. At Warlaby, Mr Douglas bought 

 Isabella Hopewell, a cow of mixed blood, as her dam 

 was by Earl Spencer's Exquisite. To Mr Douglas she 

 produced the famous bull Lamp of Lothian (16,356). 



The great bull, Second Duke of Cambridge, was 

 out of a Bracelet-descended cow. He won the Gold 

 Medal at Dublin, and, despite his composite blood, he 

 proved a superb sire in Mr Talbot-Crosbie's herd. Mr 

 Douglas's instinct in selection was balanced by his 

 genius in mating. A Bates cow named Playful pro- 

 duced for him a number of winners, one of them being 

 Pride of Athelstane, the Battersea Royal first prize 

 exhibit. He made a cheap purchase at Killerby sale, 

 in 1852, in the heifer calf Officious by Hopewell. 

 Most of the Bracelet family are descended from 

 that calf. 



