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1917, and was acquired there by Mr Leslie Smith, 

 U.S.A., who has exhibited the bull with success in 

 the States. Gold Cup, a stylish red, full brother to 

 Royal Cup, was sold to Mr Jos. G. Scott, Congalton, 

 who disposed of the bull recently at a very good price 

 for exportation. Behind Marquis, in the Rosebud 

 pedigree, there are the crosses of the great bulls 

 Newton Stone, Scottish Archer, and Gravesend. 



Mr Veitch has a very fine group of Secrets de- 

 scended from the Cromleybank purchases Secret 

 5th by the grand bull Royal Crown (84,598), one 

 of the best sires used in the North during the last 

 quarter of a century. Mated with Prince Edgar, 

 Secret 5th calved a very pretty heifer named 

 Princess Secret, which was sold to the Marquis of 

 Crewe. On her way south from Perth to Crewe she 

 got a leg broken, but it was well set. At the 

 Marquis's dispersion sale she was bought by Mr 

 George B. Shields, Dolphingstone. In the Lothians 

 she gave birth to that rare type of a breeder's bull, 

 Rubicon, the reserve champion at Perth in 1918. 

 Secret 7th, a full sister to Princess Secret, was sold 

 to Mr Cazalet, and Secret 8th, another daughter of 

 Secret 5th and by Storm Signal, was disposed of 

 privately to Sir John Gilmour, Bart. 



Of the bulls used by Mr Veitch, the white Prince 

 Edgar of Mr Duthie's breeding was the most consist- 

 ently good sire. He was by the smallish but very 

 thick -fleshed Edgar 2nd of Cluny, out of Collynie 

 Princess 9th by Bapton Champion (78,285). Prince 

 Edgar left good colours, and all the females by him 



