200 EARLY DOG SHOWS. 



I lost it." I then went purposely to Kettering to see Mr. 

 Horn, who told me he had lost her written pedigree, but that 

 he had obtained her from a person at Sudbury (whose name 

 I now forget). I made a purpose journey to Sudbury and 

 Chartley to try to discover the pedigree, but all I could 

 ever ascertain was that she was bred at Sudbury, from stock 

 originally obtained from Lord Vernon's and the Trentham 

 kennels, and among others her breeder had sent his two last 

 specimens over to Phoenix Park, Dublin, which cleared him 

 out of the breed. 



Mr. Horn's Jenny was evidently of the Trentham strain, 

 (the Chartley mastiffs having been obtained also from Trent - 

 ham) and thus allied to Dan, the grandsire of Mr. Cautley's 

 splendid Quaker. The cross of Horn's Jenny fortunately 

 restored the shorter head to Mr. Lukey's strain, Rufus being 

 a very grand headed specimen, although low standing, and 

 somewhat deformed ; and accidentally he was the means of 

 transmitting the purest and best mastiff blood left in the 

 kingdom, as Mr. J. K. Field really wished to breed from 

 Governor with Nell iii. who was a daughter of Cautley's 

 Quaker, out of a very fine bitch, owned by Wm. Guppy, the 

 noted King Charles fancier and toy dog dealer of Prince's 

 Street, London ; her mother was a mastiff bitch belonging to 

 Lord Darnley, but her sire's pedigree is not on record, and 

 it has been rumoured that he was a bull-mastiff. 



However while this bull cross in Old King 2301 lias never 

 been thoroughly investigated, much less proved, it is certain 

 that both from the dam of Rufus, and also his mother's sire, 

 he inherited some of the purest and best English mastiff blood 

 that existed. 



