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From Bailey's Victor, out of Blue Daisy : Fairy II. and Magnet. These 

 were credited in the stud book to Mr. Laverack as breeder, but we satisfied 

 ourselves at the time that they were bred by Mr. Robinson, of Sunder- 

 land, who was the canine legatee of Mr. Laverack. 



From Emperor Fred, out of Blue Cora: Aldershot. 



All three of these dams were by Blue Prince, son of Pride of the Border, 

 and Emperor Fred was also by Blue Prince. 



The foregoing were of course not all of the get of Pride of the Border, 

 for it was only the living descendants at that time that were tabulated, and 

 Pride had also been bred to other than pure Laverack bitches, getting that 

 excellent show and field dog St. Elmo out of a short pedigreed bitch of 

 Herzberg's. 



In speaking to Mr. Raymond recently about the old dog and his 

 descendants he told us that he still had some setters that traced to him, and 

 whenever trained they were found to be excellent field dogs. Those were 

 not pure Laveracks, however; indeed, we believe it would be impossible 

 to find one anywhere that had such a claim. As to the controversies which 

 have taken place regarding Laverack pedigrees, Mr. Raymond never in 

 any way took part, he being thoroughly satisfied with the high character 

 and excellence of the dogs themselves, without discussing old, unnecessary 

 subjects, which had no bearing on the individuality of the dogs. 



Other importations followed Mr. Raymond's and for ten years the Lave- 

 racks had their full share of success on the show bench. The series of 

 importations of this strain terminating with that of Emperor Fred, a remark- 

 ably good dog that never really got his deserts in this country. He was 

 first shown at New York in 1881, and led in the class for imported setter 

 dogs. The term "imported" including the progeny of imported dogs, so 

 that Duke of Beaufort and Pontiac, both by Pride of the Border, the former 

 out of Fairy II., and the latter out of Petrel, though bred here, were in this 

 class, and these three Laveracks were placed in the order named. When 

 it came to the breed special, Thunder, another Laverack, beat Emperor 

 Fred, though the latter was an immeasurably superior dog. Thunder was 

 a big winner at that period, but very faulty in essential points, though quite a 

 taking dog to the non-expert. The judge on this occasion was not the only 

 one to make this blunder, but as sound judges were not by any means 

 plentiful at that time, awards by the non-experts must be accepted with 

 caution. Emperor Fred finally had justice done him at Washington in 1883, 



