The Irish Setter 181 



ADVENT OF PALMERSTON 



"The next dog of note was Dr. Stone's Dash, but when Palmerston 

 came out he eclipsed everything. Palmerston was a dog well on in years 

 when he fell into the hands of Mr. Hilliard for show purposes. He was 

 bred by Mr. Cecil Moore, who had large shootings and kept his red setters 

 for that purpose. When Palmerston was shown it was impossible to give 

 his date of birth, and that is 'not known* on the records. He was out of 

 Kate, a bitch shown by a Mr. Cochrane at Birmingham in 1871, without 

 a pedigree or any particulars and with which he won first. Palmerston 

 was bred by Mr. Moore before Cochrane got Kate and he was seven 

 years old before Mr. Hillard got him for show purposes. When he was 

 shown at Belfast in 1875 Mr. Sandell, better known to many as 

 " Caractacus," and who was associated with Messrs. Lort and Walker as 

 judges, stated that the scales which had for so long been unbalanced as to 

 Irish setter type were so no longer. So struck was he by Palmerston 

 and such of his get as he then saw, that he obtained an interest in him 

 and later on was in charge of the dog when he was being exhibited in 

 England. His breeding is not properly stated in the English stud book 

 and should be as follows: By Cecil Moore's Grouse out of his Kate, by 

 Mr. Hazzard's Grouse out of his Belle, by the Earl of Enniskillen's 

 Grouse. Mr. Moore's Grouse by Mr. Evan's Shot out of Mr. Lloyd's 

 Kate. 



"He was a revelation to Irish setter breeders, as were his daughters 

 Kate, Kittie, Mina, Bella and Rose, and believing that this blood would 

 be of benefit I commissioned a well known expert to purchase for 

 me the best Palmerston bitch he could, to cross with Elcho, which I had 

 recently purchased from the St. Louis Kennel Club. Six months later 

 my agent wrote: 'At last I have got the thing to suit you, and am well 

 repaid for waiting. I have purchased Cecil Moore's Rose, an own sister 

 to O'Brien's Kate and Kittie, and to MacHaffie's Mina and Bella. She is 

 in point of quality next to O'Brien's Kate, and has the loveliest head of the 

 lot, without Kate's can equal it, but she certainly is before her other sisters. 

 I really think you never saw such a head on a bitch as that of Rose, while 

 for colour she can't be excelled.' 



"There is no place more appropriate than this to quote from a brief 

 history of this strain, information for which I obtained from Mr. Moore 



