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the dispersal sale at Ketton in 1810 the 47 animals sold brought 

 an average of ^750 a head. The herd of Robert was sold in two 

 consignments — the first, in 18 18, of 61 head averaging about 

 ^650; and the second, in 1820, of 47 head averaging about $250. 

 Colling tribes of Shorthorns of distinction were the following : 



The Lady Maynard tribe. In 1875 Charles Colling visited John 

 Maynard at Eryholme and purchased a cow and heifer calf. The 

 cow was Old Favorite, but named by him Lady Maynard. The 

 calf Young Strawberry became the dam of a bull calf named 

 Bolingbroke (86), which was in time bred to Phoenix, a daughter 

 of Lady Maynard and sired by Foljambe (263), which resulted in 

 1793 in the bull Favorite (252), one of the most noted Shorthorn 

 bulls in history. Young Phcenix, a daughter of Phcenix, bred to 

 her sire, Favorite (252), produced Comet (155), which brought 

 ^5000, the top price at the Charles Colling sale and the record 

 price for a bull up to that time. The Lady Maynard tribe is also 

 known as the Phoenix tribe. Sixteen of this tribe in Ceiling's 

 sale, including Comet (155), averaged about ^iioo. 



The Princess tribe is one of the oldest and best and is de- 

 scended from a cow named Old Haughton, by Hubback (319), 

 and a direct descendant from a cow bred at Ketton in 1739 by 

 Mr. Stephenson, who was tenant there before Charles Colling. 

 The bull Hubback is regarded by some as the foundation sire of 

 the breed. He was calved in 1777 and was a yellowish red with 

 some white. He was sired by Snowdon's Bull (612) and was a 

 direct descendant of the Studley Bull (626), calved in 1737, and 

 one of the first-known Shorthorn sires. The dam of Hubback 

 was a cow of Stephenson breeding. Hubback was owned by 

 various persons, but his fame is chiefly due to his services when 

 owned by Robert Colling and later by Charles, who paid his 

 brother and Mr. Waistell about ^40 for him. He was used for two 

 years by Colling, who then sold him in 1785 to a Mr. Hubback 

 in Northumberland, from whom he got his name. Hubback sired 

 some very fine heifers at Ketton, one of which. Old Haughton 

 (already referred to), bred to Richard Barker's Bull (52), produced 

 the calf Foljambe (263), which became a noted sire. The bull 

 Belvedere, bred by Charles Colling, used by Thomas Bates was of 

 this Princess tribe. 



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