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Prince of Tillyfour, Mr M'Combie had again gone as far 

 in the direction of line breeding as his opinions on the 

 subject would permit him ; and he then thought it advis- 

 able to have some more fresh blood. 



Mr M'Combie's next choice of a sire was in every 

 respect most judicious. He attended the Kinnaird sale 

 in 1861, and purchased the bull calf Don Fernando 514, 

 bred by the Earl of Southesk. Don Fernando was a 

 son of Windsor 221, of Mr M'Combie's own breeding, and 

 his dam, Dulcinea 334, was out of the Keillor cow Dora 

 333, her sire Cup-Bearer 59, going back to the Keillor 

 and Ardovie blood, so skilfully blended at Mains of Kelly. 

 As a successor to Don Fernando, Mr M'Combie bought 

 President 4th 368, bred by Mr Leslie, The Thorn. His 

 show-yard achievements alone he having been first prize 

 yearling and two-year-old at Highland Society's shows 

 would have entitled him to a place at Tillyfour, but in ad- 

 dition to that, his breeding was very fine. An analysis of 

 his pedigree discloses a strong infusion, of Panmure and 

 Ardovie blood, mixed with Keillor strains. Bright 454, 

 after Black Prince of Tillyfour 366, and out of Mr Collie's 

 JSTormahal, was next used. In Mr M'Combie's subsequent 

 selection of sires there was not perhaps quite so much 

 method displayed, although most of the bulls were more 

 or less intimately connected with the Panmure and Queen 

 sorts. It should be borne in mind that it was in 1868 that 

 Mr M'Combie was chosen to represent his native county in 

 Parliament, and during the time he occupied a seat in the 

 Legislature of the country from 1868 to 1876, when 

 he retired he was necessarily unable to exercise so much 

 personal supervision as formerly over the management of 

 his herd. 



It will be convenient and useful to introduce here 

 a table showing the principal descendants of Queen 

 Mother 348, discontinuing the list with the names of 

 animals that have formed families, and noting the lines 

 that are without living female representatives : 



