THE STUDLEY HERD. IO5 



Fairfax) (5196) ; and a heifer named Myrrha, not in the Herd Book, 

 under that name at least, by Rockingham (2550).' 



" Blossom was bought by the Earl of Lonsdale, at the Studley sale 

 in 1834, and, after breeding four calves, was slaughtered in 1840. 

 Own Sister to Isabella, also had Imogen, by Argus (750), which was 

 sold at the Studley sale to the Earl of Carlisle, and became the dam 

 of Isabel, by Belshazzar (1703). This Belshazzar (1703),* who was 

 contemporary with Mr. Booth's Belshazzar of the old Red Rose 

 tribe, was from Lady Sarah, the third sister of Isabella, by Pilot. 

 Lady Sarah became the property of the Earl of Carlisle, and pro- 

 duced at Castle Howard three bulls and four heifers, one of which 

 was the dam of Lord Stanley (4269), purchased by Messrs. Booth and 

 Maynard. 



"Isabella, by Pilot, now the best known to fame of the three 

 sisters, produced, at Studley, Isaac (1129), by Young Albion (15), 

 Albert (727) by the same bull, Isabella, sold to Mr. Bolden, Young 

 Isabella to Mr. Paley, and Belinda to the Earl of Carlisle, and four 

 others ; and on the sale of the Studley herd she alone was retained, 

 and transferred to Warlaby, where she gave birth, in her eighteenth 

 year, to Isabella Matchem, afterwards the dam, as will be seen, of a 

 numerous progeny. The demand for bulls was then only commenc- 

 ing. Isaac had been let for a year to Miss Strickland, of Apperley 

 Court, and on his return, Mr. Booth not requiring him, he was unfor- 

 tunately fed to make room for younger ones, before his eminent merits 

 as a sire had been discovered. The Isabellas had all great capacity for 

 rapidly acquiring ripe condition on pasture. As an illustration of the 

 fallaciousness of the usual mode of judging cattle by the softness of 

 their flesh, it may be worthy of mention that at one of the' Yorkshire 

 agricultural meetings held at Northallerton, a grass-fed heifer, a 

 daughter of Isabella, by Ambo, was shown, and rejected as being 

 too hard-fleshed. Not breeding, she was slaughtered at York for 

 Christmas beef. Her two successful rivals also failing to breed were 

 slaughtered, and the palm for the best carcass of beef was awarded 

 to Mr. Booth's heifer over her Northallerton rivals. Nor is this case 

 without many a parallel in the history of Royal Shows. Numerous 

 as have been the prizes which the Booth cattle have received, their 

 number would have been greatly increased if judges had always care- 

 fully distinguished between flesh and fat. When their decisions have 



* This must be a mistake of Mr. Carr's. The English Herd Book, Vol. 3, records Belshazzar 

 (1704) as the Son of Lady Sarah. Mr. Booth bred (1703), and the Earl of Carlisle bred (1704). 

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