OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 195 
THE YORKSHIRE SQUIRE AT HIS BEST 
76, Situated in the fertile valley of the Swale in late eighteenth 
century Yorkshire, THomas Bootu’s Killerby estate cradled the 
birth of that second dominant strain of Shorthorns to carry the 
standard of the red-white-and-roan to all corners of the earth. 
His foundation animals were acquired even prior to 1790, but he 
first tapped the CoLLING source about this year, when he secured 
from ROBERT CoLLine (94) the roan bull Twin Brother to Ben 
and one of his sons, both of his Hubback heritage. Unlike the 
famous founder of the Duchess tribes, his younger compatriot 
THomas Bates (74), Boor felt no necessity to utilize the CoL- 
LING females, and thereby stamped himself both more original 
and more independent than his worthy colleague. Robust consti- 
tution and a wealth of flesh-making capacity were his ideals. His 
cattle must be excellent grazers, but, from the first, breadth of 
back and thickness of loin outweighed all considerations of lacta- 
tive persistency. 
Mr. Bootn’s early bulls of CoLtinc blood were followed by 
others from the same source, Suworrow, Pilot, Marshall Beresford 
and Albion. The latter bull in particular was successful in 
establishing that low down blockiness and round-ribbed cover that 
so distinguished the later BooTu tribes. In the light of THomas 
Bates, Mr. Bootu was not a pedigree mater, but based his selec- 
tions almost wholly on the types of animals themselves. Excep- 
tional pains were taken in the introduction of the CoLLinc stock 
to overcome defects and to fix the desirable beefing characteristics, 
and the resulting improvement led Mr. Boortu gradually to be- 
come independent of the CoLLINc support. With the opening of 
the new century, the Bakewell (78) formula was applied to his 
Fairholme tribes with eminent success, and a little later to the 
descendants of the yellowish red and white cow found on the 
Darlington market in 1797, Halnaby by Lame Bull (359). 
