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Trials, 1882; second in all-aged stake in Eastern Field 

 Trials, 1882; silver medal, best kennel of Pointers, New 

 York, 1883; silver medal, best field-trial Pointer, New 

 York, 1883; best stud Pointer in the show, appearing with 

 four first and second winners, New York, 1884; silver 

 medal, best kennel of Pointers, New York, 1885. 



He was never shown except in New York State, and 

 after 1885 retired on his laurels, being in extensive demand 

 as a stud dog, and becoming the sire of many winners, both 

 on the bench and in the field. Among the well-known 

 dogs of whom he was the sire were Elliot's Scout, Drake, 

 Trinket's Bang, Robert le Diable, Keswick II., Dee, Dell, 

 Modesty, Lady Zeal, Romp, Lady Croxteth, Neversink, Jilt, 

 Lord Sef ton, Doncaster, Rapp, and Ossian. No dog that we 

 have had in America has achieved a more favorable reputa- 

 tion as a dog of high character, and a successful stock- 

 getter, than Croxteth; and when he died, in March, 1888, 

 the result of a cold caught during the great blizzard of that 

 month, general regret pervaded Pointer circles at the loss 

 of so shining a light among their favorites. 



Croxteth was by Lowe's Young Bang, out of Macdona's 

 Jane; he by Price's Bang and Davey's Luna, and she by 

 Lord Sef ton's Sam, out of his Flirt. Through his ances- 

 tors, Sam, Hamlet, and Drake, he inherited the best blood 

 of Lord Sef ton's, Mr. Whitehouse' s, and Sir Richard 

 Garth's strains; he was half-brother of Sir Thomas Len- 

 nard' s Priam and Scamp, and grandson of Champion Bang, 

 the winner of ten field trials in England, and with an 

 invincible bench record as well. In bench-show form, 

 Croxteth weighed seventy pounds, his measurements being: 

 Round chest, two feet, five inches; nose to root of tail, three 

 feet, two inches; height of shoulder, two feet, one and one- 

 fourth inches; head, skull-bone to nose, ten and one-half 

 inches; round face, under eyes, eleven inches; round thigh, 

 one foot, four inches; round loin, one foot, ten and one-half 

 inches; round skull, one foot, five and one-half inches; 

 skull-bone to shoulder, eight inches. 



In color, he was dark liver-and- white ticked; grandly 



