A very old painting of a horned White Park cow.  Note the depth of body, the well set udder, and the kindly nature of this quite beautiful and contented representation of this ancient breed, and particularly look at those black tipped horns.  Some old writings about this breed describe them as having black tipped horns, yet we don't see this trait in modern animals bearing the label Ancient White Park.  Wonder why?
      Within the White Park Cattle Society of the UK's own dogma and history of the breed they inadvertently provide historical evidence via this painting of the absolute close kinship of the polled and horned varieties of the ancient White Park breed.  Merely remove the horns and you have an excellent example of what all breeders of polled British White cattle strive to have grazing in their pastures today.

Of particular interest here is the representation of both a red pointed White Park cow and a black pointed White Park cow.  Within both the horned and polled varieties of the White Park breed, red pointed calves continue to appear today as they did in days of old, and breeders of the polled variety are invariably surprised and pleased when this occurs.  It's quite easy to understand why the gentle milk white cows with red ears were held in reverence for many thousands of years, and found their way into Celtic myths and legends long before the written word.