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sire of Dandy Drake, Beau, Mallard, Romp, Lucky Six- 

 pence, Gipsy, Yellow Drake, Luck of Edenhall, Tick, 

 Lord Downe's Bang, Drake II., Mars, Grace, Jill, Bounce, 

 Lord Derby's Drake and Duchess, Lord Lichfield' s Daisy, 

 Barclay Field's Riot, Mr. Price's Rose, Garth's Mite II., 

 and many other field- trial and bench-show winners. He was 

 also the grandsire of Mr. Field' s Drake and Pride, and of 

 Mr. Pilkington's Garnet and Faust, the latter being im- 

 ported to this country at a cost of $2,250, and becoming 

 one of our most valuable dogs, and a most excellent and 

 prepotent sire. 



Another prominent Pointer in England was R. J. Lloyd 

 Price's Belle, a handsome liver-and- white bitch, bred in 

 1870 by Lord Henry Bentinck, out of Grouse, by his 

 Ranger. This bitch weighed fifty-five pounds, stood 

 twenty-four inches at the shoulder, and measured three 

 feet two and three-quarters inches from nose to root of tail. 

 Her reputation is based chiefly on her field-trial perform- 

 ances, which is very much to her credit; and having been 

 very successful in competition with the Setters, it may 

 prove interesting to give a portion of her record, which is 

 as follows: 



County stakes for all -aged bitches at Yaynol Field 

 Trials, 1872, and with Judy, the Bangor stakes for Pointer 

 braces, at the same meeting; county stakes for all-aged 

 Pointer bitches at the National Pointer and Setter Field 

 Trials, held at Combermere, Shrewsbury, April 29, 1873; 

 and with her daughter, Grecian Bend, the Acton Reynald 

 stakes for Pointer braces at the same meeting; also at 

 the Grouse Field Trials, 1873, she won second, with Roman 

 Fall, her son, in the Penllyn stakes for braces, August 

 13th, and first in the Rhiwlas stakes for all-aged Pointers 

 and Setters, August 16th, beating Mr. Macdona's Ranger, 

 Mr. Llewellin's Countess and Flax, Mr. Statter's Rob Roy, 

 and other celebrated animals; after which performance she 

 was withdrawn from public competition, and' used for 

 breeding purposes only. 



At the Yaynol Trials in 1872, this wonderful bitch made 



