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Missies were also introduced, but they had only a 

 short trial. Among his famous bulls were the twice 

 Eoyal winner Eapid Ehone (35,205), King David 

 (43,417), Eoyal Eiby (52,056), Sir Lucius Studley 

 (64,852), and Sir Cuthbert Studley (64,838), the 

 very finest of their order. Then two celebrated 

 home-bred Wave bulls were used. These were the 

 Windsor Eoyal champion Ironclad (55,913), a son of 

 Wave Surf, and Windsor Eoyal (62,041), the High- 

 land Society and Eoyal Show champion ; and they 

 were followed by another home-bred in Eoyal Herald 

 (64,738), the Leicester Eoyal champion, and the Fife- 

 shire-bred champion Nonsuch (65,969), which pro- 

 vided an outcross for the herd. 



His lordship's Waves had a wonderful showy ard 

 career. Apart from the Waves, his great prize-winning 

 female was the red-and- white Truth, which showed 

 rather more "daylight" under her than the Cruick- 

 shank men cared for. She was a daughter of Sir Arthur 

 Irwin (44,016) and the Killerby-bred Timbrel, the 

 latter a cheap purchase in 1886. At Plymouth Eoyal 

 in 1890 Truth was first prize two-year-old, and the 

 following year at Doncaster she was first and female 

 champion, the first and second cows being Wave of 

 Indiana and Wave of Loch Leven. Truth was again 

 the female champion at Warwick Eoyal, her class 

 follower being Wave of Loch Leven, the latter coming 

 to the front at Chester in 1893. At Cambridge 

 Eoyal, Bridal Eobe by Crested Knight was first in 

 her class and reserve champion. Towards the end 

 of the century the best home-bred bull in the herd 



