20 BRITISH DOGS 



So long as the question was confined to expressions of opinion 

 only, no steps could be taken to attempt to clear the matter up ; 

 but as soon as a public statement was made that direct evidence was 

 forthcoming that The Emperor was the sire and that the breeder 

 of Crown Prince was cognisant of the fact, the Committee of the 

 Old English Mastiff Club felt that the time had arrived when 

 something should be done to clear up the question whether The 

 Emperor was really the sire of this dog. All who were in any 

 way interested in the matter were invited to give evidence before 

 the Committee. After a long and exhaustive enquiry, which ex- 

 tended over many meetings, the Committee came to the conclusion 

 that Mr. Woolmore fully believed that Young Prince was the 

 sire of Crown Prince, and that sufficient evidence had not been 

 brought forward to show that the registered pedigree of this dog 

 was incorrect. This decision was adversely criticised at the time, 

 more especially by Mr. Dalziel, and by Mr. Evans, who had 

 purchased The Emperor, but no disinterested person who was 

 present at the investigation and heard the evidence could have 

 come to any other conclusion. 



Crown Prince was extensively used at stud, the result being that 

 many of his faults became apparent in the breed. Light eyes, 

 which are so objectionable in a Mastiff, were commonly to be met 

 with, and the bad hindquarters, from which so many of our 

 Mastiffs suffer, are in most cases traceable to the indiscriminate 

 ,use of this dog. The Dudley nose appears from time to time in 

 litters of Mastiffs, but breeders have been wise enough to destroy 

 the puppies possessing this fault. 



Mr. Beaufoy's Beau (6,356) was not a great success at stud until 

 his show days were drawing to a close, when, among other good 

 Mastiffs, he got Beaufort, the best all-round Mastiff that has been 

 seen for many years, and Cambrian Princess, another grand 

 specimen of the breed, the dam of Minting (Fig. 19). Beaufort 

 (18,504) was bred by Mr. Sidney Turner, who has bred many 

 good Mastiffs, and was purchased from him by the writer. This 

 dog, for which an offer of ^"400 was refused, had a most successful 

 career as a show dog and at stud in both this country and America. 

 Minting was bred by Mrs. Willins by Maximilian, a son of The 

 Emperor. Unfortunately for the breed in this country, he was 

 purchased by Mr. E. H. Moore, of Melrose, Mass., U.S.A., for 

 whom he won numerous prizes. Minting died a short time before 

 the arrival of Beaufort in America, otherwise the meeting of these 

 two famous Mastiffs would have been very interesting. 



There are few dogs that have done more good for the breed than 

 the brindle Cardinal (8,410). He became the property of the writer 

 at a time when Mastiffs of this colour were very scarce, the colour 

 being at that time by no means a popular one. He was not, there- 



