Bull Imported From Jersey Island For Well-Known Levin Stud

Chronicle (Levin), 6 September 1948, Page 4

Bull Imported From Jersey Island For Well-Known Levin Stud

, -r—— — ♦ ■ The purchase on Jersey Island of a very 'high-class young sire for the f amous Heatherlea Stud/f oundetl by the well-known and' successful breeder, Mr. Harold J. Lancaster, Levin, has iecently been completed, reports the Farrhers-7 Co-operative Auctioneerine: Co., Ltd., Hamilton.

Tlie young bull purchased, Oxford Prince of Highfield,- is by an iqtensely bred Majesty'sire in Oxfordia'p- QxfofdVLad. Ashc^.dhe -of the .• most outstanding 'breeding bulls on the island. This -bull is a maternal grandson .of • Lady Oxfordia, four times 'champion over Jqrsey and four times reserve cliajnpion either before maturity .or as an old cow; she also 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 744 1b. 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 recofds of 535, 609 and 797 lb. fat. The dam of Mr, Lancaster's bull is Woodbine Princess Rush, a beautiful uddeted prize winning daughter of Evfergood's Rush's

Grandson, imported by the Farmers' Auctioneering Co. in October last for Dr. G. Walker," of Whangarei- It is significant of this bull's great breeding ability that pnor to shi'pment he could have been re~sold to'America at a price adyanced by 1000 guineas. His daughters are not only beautiful prize winning types,- but are doing extraordinarily well under test. He is, of courj3e,"*a son of the four times island champion cow Evergood's Miranda, who has a recora of 597 lb. f.at. 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 haviug ancestors which are particulariy noted for good.udders, he shouid be the ideal sire for the Heatherlea Stud. v