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1800. Old Jock gained the Highland Society's first prize in 

 1844, and was sold for one hundred guineas." We shall 

 here only state that in 1844 the Highland Society gave 

 no prizes for polled breeding stock. The pedigree of 

 Grey-breasted Jock 2 is thus printed in vol. i. : " Calved, 

 1840. Bred by Hugh Watson, Keillor. Sire, Old Jock 1 ; 

 dam, Favourite 2." The footnote adds, "Grey-breasted 

 Jock obtained the Highland Society's first prize at Dundee 

 in 1843, and at Inverness in 1846, and was afterwards 

 sold to Mr Kirkaldy, near Ballinasloe, and exhibited by 

 him at Londonderry in 1847, where he carried off the first 

 prize of the Royal Dublin Society. In 1852, at thirteen 

 years old, he gained the sweepstakes over all the bulls in 

 the yard at the Highland Society's show at Perth." 



One inaccuracy in this entry is as to the dam of Grey- 

 breasted Jock. The dam is said to have been Favourite 2. 

 In the pedigree of Favourite 2 her sire is given as Grey- 

 breasted Jock 2 an evident impossibility. Then the 

 footnote mentions that Grey-breasted Jock 2 gained the 

 first prize at the Highland Society's show at Dundee in 

 1843. According to the date of birth given in the ' Herd 

 Book/ Grey - breasted Jock would in 1843 have been 

 three years old, and if exhibited at Dundee must have 

 competed in the aged class. It is well known that the 

 first prize aged bull at Dundee in 1843 was Panmure 51. 

 It is next stated that Grey-breasted Jock was sold to Mr 

 Kirkaldy, near Ballinasloe, and gained for him the first 

 prize of the Royal Dublin Society at the show at London- 

 derry in 1847. The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland 

 held a show at Londonderry in 1847, but the first-prize 

 bull was not exhibited by Mr Kirkaldy, and was not 

 Grey-breasted Jock. The first prize bull, shown by Mr 

 Watson, was an animal (erroneously entered in the catal- 

 ogue under the name of Strathmore) " calved in March 

 1842 ; bred by the exhibitor." It will strike most people 

 as singular that if Grey -breasted Jock was sold to Mr Kirk- 



