Smithfield prize for Leney (1866)

Post date: Nov 25, 2013 5:48:31 PM

At the Smithfield Cattle Club Show, December 1866 Mr. F. Leney and Son won first prize of £20 for shorthorned steers not exceeding two years and six months old.

The Times nevertheless commented that

"Of shorthorns , the young steer of Messrs.

Leney and son, of Wateringbury, Kent, was not first

rate with plainish head and horns defective in plait and girth."