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titors for the Glasgow Gold Cup. Perhaps, after 

 all, it will turn out that these seeming detractions 

 are but a cunning device of the friends of Gilbert- 



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field, intended to impress the public with the idea, 

 that the achievement of a reputation greater than 

 that of any other dog in the United Kingdom is but 

 the smaller part of his victory, and that the greater 

 part is the accomplishment of an absolute change in 

 language, so that henceforth the word lurcher is to 

 designate superiority, instead of, as heretofore, infe- 

 riority of blood ; and the word third rate to apply 

 to the ascending scale in degrees of comparison, or, 

 in other words, to denote the superlative degree of 

 excellence. But be this as it may, we are happy 

 in being enabled to be the first to publish the pedi- 

 gree of Gilbertfield, supplied us at our request by 

 his owner. We give only three generations, both 

 because these carry us to the common ancestors of 

 his sire and dam, and because the ancestors of 

 Blticher and Tickler never ran in public. Gilbert- 

 field (brindled and rough) was pupped in June, 

 1831, and is, 1st, by Giraffe (brindled and smooth) 

 out of Venus (yellow and rough) ; 2d, Giraffe was 

 by Capilly (brindled and smooth, brother to Oscar) 

 out of Puzzle (brown and smooth, sister to Mr. 

 Crum's well-known Charles James Fox) Yenus, 

 by Mr. Hamilton of Greenbank's Alfred, (white 

 and red and smooth, sire of Captain, May, Serpent, 

 Pomni, Lady Mary, &c.) out of Marion (brindled 

 and rough, sister to Capilly, Oscar, Orlando Fu- 

 rioso, and Burr) ; 3d, Capilly and Marion were by 



