Imported Sire For Heatherlea Stud From Jersey Island

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 94, 13 September 1948, Page 4

Imported Sire For Heatherlea Stud From Jersey Island

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co. Ltd., report having recently completed the purchase on Jersey Island of a very high-class young sire for the famous Heatherlea Stud, founded by the wellknown judge and successful breeder, Mr Harold J. Lancaster, Levin, Manawatu. The young bull, purchased, Oxford Prince of Highfield, is by an intensely bred ‘Majesty’ sire in Ox.fordia’s Oxford Lad, who is one of the most outstanding breeding bulls on the Island. This bull is a maternal grandson of Lady Oxfordia, four times champion over Jersey and four times Reserve Champion either before maturity or as an old cow; .she also v won eight Championships at Grouville and St. Saviour Shows, and five Cups at Royal Island Shows. She was also twice Champion for the Goddington prize for production, and has five consecutive records of 552, 673, 678, 720 and 7441 b fat. She was undoubtedly the world’s greatest cow of her time. Another famous cow in Oxfordia’s Oxford Lad’s pedigree is Sweet Jane, who has three consecutive records of 535, 609 and 7971 b fat. The dam of Mr Lancaster’s bull is Woodbine Princess Rush, a beautiful uddered prizewinning daughter of Evergood’s Rush’s Grandson, imported by the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co in October last for Doctor G. Walker, of Whangarei. It is significant of this bull’s great breeding ability that before shipment he could have been re-sold to America at a price advanced by 1000 guineas. His daughters are not only beautiful prizewinning types but are doing extraordinarily well under test. He is, of course, a son of the four times Island Champion cow Evergood’s Miranda, who has a record of 5971 b fat. Woodbine Fairy Princess, the grand-dam of Mr Lancaster’s importation, was Champion at St. Ouen and the Three Parish Shows in 1945; her sire Oxford Des Noyers was second over Jersey for Bull and Progeny in 1945 and he was by the famous sire Crystal Star’s Rush’s Oxford. Oxford Prince of Highfield is a bull of super quality and, having ancestors which are particularly noted for good udders, he should be the ideal sire for the ‘Heatherlea’ Stud.