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all black, fourteen all blue, six red, four blue-and-white, and one 

 all white. There are still many coursers who prefer the pure black 

 or the red ; but the following short list, taken from the Coursing 

 Calendar, shows good Greyhounds of many different colours : 

 Scotland Yet and her sons Canaradzo and Calioja were white; 

 Cerito, fawn-and-white ; Lobelia, brindled-and-white ; Lady Stormont, 

 black-and-white ; Master M'Grath, black-and-white ; Beacon, Blue 

 Light, and Sapphire, all blue ; High Idea, blue ticked ; Bed of 

 Stone, Bab at the Bowster, and Sea Cove, red ; Cauld Kail, red 

 ticked ; Mocking Bird, Cashier, and Black Knight, all black ; Land- 

 gravine, Elsecar, Herschel, and of course the mighty Fullerton, 

 brindled. 



As regards size, the medium-sized dog is preferred by most. 

 There is a considerable difference, in both height and weight, 

 between the dog and the bitch. Prejudice against small dogs received 

 a shock by the double victory of Coomassie in the Waterloo Cup, 

 she being a bitch of only 44lb. running weight ; and her appearance, 

 also, was not prepossessing, her colour being a washed-out fawn. 

 Again, Penelope II., the runner-up for the Cup in 1886, weighed 

 but 4 ilb., her victor, Miss Glendyne, weighing 54lb. ; this seeming 

 to confirm the courser's adage, " A good big one will always beat a 

 good little one." 



Even more famous as a winner than Coomassie was Lord 

 Lurgan's Master M'Grath ; but, like the celebrated little bitch, he 

 was on the small side, not scaling more than 54lb. Judged by 

 performances he was a giant, but by appearances he was mean-looking, 

 and was often disparagingly referred to as the Irish Terrier. How- 

 ever, he was decidedly one of the finest Greyhounds of the last 

 century, and worthy to rank with such meritorious animals as the 

 redoubtable Fullerton and Bab at the Bowster. His performance 

 in the deciding course for the Waterloo Cup of 1869, when he met 

 Bab at the Bowster, will long remain green in coursing annals. It 

 was a contest never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it, and 

 was equalled only by that of Fullerton and Herschel in the final for 

 the Cup of 1889. The famous Irish Greyhound placed the Blue 

 Ribbon of the Leash three times to his owner's credit ; while 

 Fullerton topped that performance by dividing with Troughend. 

 Fullerton was purchased under the hammer for ;86o, a record 

 price for a Greyhound, and that his late owner was justified in paying 

 such a figure subsequent performances amply proved. As a sire 

 Fullerton, however, was a failure, and this was deplored doubtless by 

 owner and breeders alike. The only other dog that won the Cup 

 three times was Cerito, but that was at a time when the stake was 

 only half the size that it is now namely, a thirty-two dog one. He 

 also was a failure as a stud dog, in which category also falls the great 

 Master M'Grath. 



