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prepotency left a wonderful stamp. Take for 

 example the celebrated bull Comet (155). He 

 was by Favorite out of Young Phoenix, and she 

 was out of Phoenix, the dam of Favorite, and 

 herself by Favorite. This is an extreme exam- 

 ple of incestuous breeding, and the result was 

 regarded as a great triumph of the new method. 

 Charles Colling said that he was the best bull 

 he ever saw, and the general judgment of the 

 day ratified this dictum, which is further con- 

 firmed by the enormous price he brought at 

 the great sale of Oct. 19, 1810, which was 1,000 

 guineas (a little more than $5,000). At the 

 time of the sale he was six years old, and a 

 well-tried and highly-esteemed sire. In all 

 respects he seems to have been a remarkable 

 animal. He died of general decay, ''breaking 

 out into sores" all over his body, which seems 

 to show that the course of in-and-in breeding 

 had induced a scrofulous disorder, such as so 

 often is caused by it. The bull North Star 

 (458) was a full brother to Comet, and also a 

 very fine bull, though not nearly so highly re- 

 garded as Comet. 



In a number of the most notable bulls bred 

 by the Collings the same extremely close in- 

 and-in breeding is to be found. Thus the bull 

 Lancaster (860), which brought the highest 

 price, 621 guineas, at Mr. Robert Colling's sale 

 of 1818, had a great deal of the Favorite blood, 



