44 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



Young Strawberry, and also begat the cow Phoenix, in the dam of 

 Young Strawberry (Lady Maynard), so that Bolingbroke was closely 

 related to Phoenix in other ways than being her half brother. Then 

 in Phoenix, his half sister and aunt, Bolingbroke begat Favorite (252), 

 and Favorite in his own mother and sister (Phoenix) begat Young 

 Phoenix, and in Young Phoenix (his own daughter as well as sister) 

 he begat Comet (155), the famous 1000 guinea bull in the final sale of 

 Ceiling's herd in 1810. In addition to this intensely close breeding. 

 Favorite was used to his own heifers without stint in Colling's herd 

 even to, in one instance (Robert Colling's Clarissa), the sixth genera- 

 tion, producing in every case sound, healthy offspring. No bull in 

 Short-horn history has so many animals which trace back to him as 

 Favorite. Not only to his own immediate family relations, but to the 

 Duchesses and other tribes does his blood extend, so that running 

 back to Favorite, in thousands of bulls and cows, from that day to 

 this, his blood has been commingled in near and remote relationship. 



Concurrent with Charles, his brother Robert had been equally vig- 

 ilant. 3fHe had selected, probably, quite as good animals from the 

 herds of Messrs. Milbank of Barningham, Hill of Blackwell, Best, 

 Watson, Wright of Manfield, and Sir William St. Quintin of Scamp- 

 ston, all of whom were celebrated breeders of Short-horn or Tees- 

 water cattle.* 



Hubback had been used by Robert one year, and by Charles two 

 years, as before stated, and sold by the latter at ten years of age, 

 without a name, to go into the hands of Mr. Hubback, in Northum- 

 berland, who gave his own name to the bull, and in whose possession 

 he died. After leaving Colling, little is known of Hubback's produce 

 or to what classes of cows he was bred. The name of Mr. Hubback, 

 the last owner of the bull, does not appear as a breeder in the early 

 volumes of the Herd Book. 



Let it be borne in mind that while the Collings were thus vigor- 

 ously busy in working up their herds, the older breeders around 

 them had not been idle. The selections of the Collings were made 

 from among the cattle of those breeders, and it may well be supposed 

 that they still retained in their hands animals probably equal in 

 quality to any with which they had parted ; but wanting the dash 

 and enterprise of the later established Barmpton and Ketton breed- 

 ers, they failed to bring their own herds into equally prominent 

 notice. 



* Thornto- s Circular. 



