3oo The Dog Book 



Lord Sefton and Mr. Edge, the two latter being particularly prominent 

 owners in pedigrees carried well back at the time the first English stud book 

 was compiled. Mr. Edge's kennel was sold in 1845 and the blood widely 

 distributed, two that Mr. Statter bought being about the best known in the 

 way of pedigrees traced back to olden times. Coming a step nearer to 

 the present, there were Mr. Garth's and Mr. Whitehouse's kennels, the 

 former being the breeder of that wonderful dog Drake, which Stonehenge 

 in his article on field trials dogs, quoted in the chapter on the English setter, 

 placed at the head of the list of the five entitled to be considered in the 

 first class. It was about this period that America came slightly into touch 

 with England, but to such a limited extent that we find out of the 165 

 dogs registered in the first volume of our stud book only about a dozen 

 actual importations. A good many trace back to imported ancestry, but 

 the vast majority "take to the woods" in two or three generations. 



Among the recorded importations of thirty years ago none is better 

 known than Sensation, a grandson of Whitehouse's Hamlet. He was 

 shown abroad and registered as Don, 4963, owner Mr. R. Parr, breeder 

 Mr. J. R. Humphreys, and pedigree "not on record." Sensation's record 

 in England was not of high mark; three firsts and three seconds at some 

 minor shows, four of them being Welsh fixtures, and a second at Birming- 

 ham, of which a great deal was said as proving Sensation's claim to merit, 

 but it was a second in a class of two for medium-sized dogs. Backed by 

 the Westminster Kennel Club as owner, and with his well-chosen name, 

 Sensation became the rage, but he was a very faulty dog, and notwith- 

 standing his being run after for years as a stud dog he never sired a really 

 good one. It was a great misfortune that a better selection was not made, 

 as the good a high-class dog would have done is incalculable. The St. 

 Louis Kennel Club also got a Birmingham winner of the following year, 

 the small-sized Sleaford, one of Mr. Whitehouse's breeding, but for some 

 reason this dog did not take here. Still his name crops up in quite a num- 

 ber of pedigrees of good dogs. The Western club then secured two excel- 

 lent dogs in Bow and Faust, and Mr. A. H. Moore, of Philadelphia, got 

 Donald. With these three dogs we must also mention the kennel of small 

 pointers shown by Mr. E. Orgill, of Brooklyn; Rush and Rose, with their 

 sisters Belle, Pearl and Ruby, being all nice pointers. Of this same litter 

 was Beulah, who earned fame as the dam of that grand dog Beaufort, 

 by Bow. The breeding of the Orgill litter was by Flake out of Lily, by 



