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top price of the sale was 370 gs. 5 paid by Mr J. J. 

 Moubray for the best-looking cow in the collection, 

 the red five-year-old Goldie 32nd, a first-prize winner 

 at the Edinburgh Show. A very fine roan heifer calf 

 at her foot, sired by Proud Champion, was taken out 

 at 100 gs., by Mr Peter Wilson, Mill of Gask. 

 Goldie 33rd, a red with little white, half-sister to 

 Mr Moubray's purchase, passed to Mr Casares, 

 London, at 280 gs., and a Newton-bred Lavender fell 

 to Captain Fletcher at 180 gs. For a red Nonpareil 

 two-year-old heifer, Mr Thomas Kirk of Abbey Mains 

 paid 200 gs. Out of the two-year-old group also Mr 



B. Wylie Hill took an Augusta at 170 gs., and Mr 



C. E. Gunther of Tongswood chose a Jilt at 250 gs. 

 Mr D. H. Moore, the Ross-shire breeder, took Roving 

 Boy at 220 gs. In this case the short pedigree was 

 of course a selling handicap. 



The Dalkeith Park herd, owned by the Dukes of 

 Buccleuch, was founded in the early twenties of last 

 century, and dispersed on 24th April 1908. It had 

 a remarkably successful prize -winning career from 

 about 1840 onwards for thirty years. Its oldest 

 family was the Cherry, which had the same tap-root 

 as the Broadhooks. The Ladykirk cow Short Tail, 

 by Charles Colling's Cherry bull Wellington (679), 

 was sold to the then Duke of Buccleuch. She was 

 in calf to Mr Robertson's Albion (731) of the Dairy- 

 maid family. Short Tail's calf by Albion was Lady 

 Derby, and her descendants were named the Cherries. 

 At their best these were beautiful cattle, showing 

 much family likeness, grand backs, wide ribs, and 



