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helped much in putting a showy finish on Mr 

 Granger's Groats. Exported to the Argentine, he 

 proved useful there for a good many seasons. Vic- 

 torious (73,822) and The Leader (66,428) from Col- 

 ly nie, the latter by Gravesend, and Ajax of Cluriy 

 (76,002), a grand-looking red, were well known rather 

 later. Ajax took first and the reserve for the cham- 

 pionship at Belfast. Gilderoy, a blocky white Bellona, 

 bred at Jackstown, and out of the same dam as the 

 champion Choice Goods ; Count Fragrant (74.293), 

 bred by Mr Duthie ; Defender (63,865), bred by 

 Mr Jas. M'William ; and Ballachraggan Admiral 

 (87,842), were among the succeeding notables at 

 Dunmore. Admiral was one of the best bulls ever 

 used by Mr Malcolm. He won at the county shows, 

 and took second at the Peebles Highland, and was 

 sold in the Argentine for 2000. 



A few years later the most famous bull was the 

 roan Bapton Champion, which had a transfer from 

 Collynie. Merranio (99,619), a very fine Missie bull 

 of Mr Potter's breeding, and the Eoyal Norwich 

 winner Gunthorpe Beau (108,822), attracted much 

 attention at Dunmore. The last of Mr Malcolm's 

 prominent show bulls before he quitted the Stirling- 

 shire farm was the red roan Saphock-bred Royal 

 Marksman (117,494), the champion at Edinburgh and 

 Aberdeen, and second-prize winner at Manchester 

 Royal. In 1916 Mr Malcolm quitted Dunmore in 

 favour of his son, Mr Wm. M. Malcolm, and he took a 

 lease of Whittingehame Mains. His principal stock 

 bulls in East Lothian hare been of Mr Duthie's breed- 

 ing. Collynie Silver Knight, a beautiful white of the 



