{"id":2076,"date":"2013-05-04T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2013-05-04T08:37:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T12:37:59","slug":"on-the-trail-of-highwayman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/on-the-trail-of-highwayman\/","title":{"rendered":"On the trail of the &#8220;Highwayman&#8221;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/15107_10200907173392369_462729533_n-e1367328888611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2012\" alt=\"15107_10200907173392369_462729533_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/15107_10200907173392369_462729533_n-e1367328888611-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em><\/em>&#8230;.a bit more information on the 1960s British champion, <em>Uggaton Highway 2nd<\/em>.\u00a0 Our Cornwall lass, Juliet Cleave, came up with the picture and wondered who he was.\u00a0 Wooz added some detail from the old herd books (including the fact that he&#8217;s an ancestor of one of the bulls calves we now have on the ground here).<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed her comment yesterday, I&#8217;ve pulled up the latest information from Juliet:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Have<\/strong><strong> just spoken to William Brent (of the now dispersed Clampit Herd): his family bought Uggaton Highwayman 2nd as an 18 month bull at the Devon Society annual sale &amp; worked him \u201cas much as we could\u201d within the Clampit herd.\u00a0 The breeders were the Down family (James &amp; brother Dudley) from the county of Devon.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mr Brent said Highwayman\u2019s only fault was that he could have had marginally straighter back legs; but this (I feel) may have been splitting hairs as the Brents showed Highwayman at county and national level throughout the bull\u2019s prime \u2013 and was rarely not show champion.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.a bit more information on the 1960s British champion, Uggaton Highway 2nd.\u00a0 Our Cornwall lass, Juliet Cleave, came up with the picture and wondered who he was.\u00a0 Wooz added some detail from the old herd books (including the fact that he&#8217;s an ancestor of one of the bulls calves we now have on the ground here). In case you missed her comment yesterday, I&#8217;ve pulled up the latest information from Juliet: Have just spoken to William Brent (of the now dispersed Clampit Herd): his family bought Uggaton Highwayman 2nd as an 18 month bull at the Devon Society annual sale &amp; worked him \u201cas much as we could\u201d within the Clampit herd.\u00a0 The breeders were the Down family (James &amp; brother Dudley) from the county of Devon. Mr Brent said Highwayman\u2019s only fault was that he could have had marginally straighter back legs; but this (I feel) may have been splitting hairs as the Brents showed Highwayman at county and national level throughout the bull\u2019s prime \u2013 and was rarely not show champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,48,24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-cleave","category-england","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}