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when Mr. Mason placed him first in a wonderfully strong class of champions 

 — dogs which had won first in the open class. Here he defeated Thunder, 

 Don Juan, Plantagenet, Coin, and Foreman. So successful were the 

 Laveracks up to that time that at this show the classification for English 

 setters was divided into sections for Laveracks of pure breeding and 

 "except pure Laveracks." But this was almost the end of this short-lived 

 division, for the glamour of the field-trial performances of certain dogs 

 twisted the setter-judging to such an extent that Laveracks became practi- 

 cally extinct. 



With the departure of Emperor Fred from the ring, Plantagenet was 

 about the best setter of 1884. Foreman, it is true, defeated him, but while 

 there was room for difi^erence of opinion, we always favoured the more 

 quality-looking Plantagenet, for Foreman was a very heavy-headed dog. 

 short and round in skull and rather short bodied, "chucked up," in fact, 

 Nevertheless he was a very impressive dog, a good, vigorous mover, with 

 superb hindquarters, and but for a slight turning out of the forefeet, and 

 not being quite straight enough in pasterns to please the fastidious, he was 

 a dog of grand character, and this, coupled with his superb coat, both in 

 quantity and quality, made him a setter that should have pleased both 

 sections of the fancy. It soon became noised abroad that he was a good 

 field dog, so that when he won the champion stakes at the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club meeting he sprang into deserved popularity as a sire with 

 beneficial results, more particularly in getting bitches of quality, such as 

 Haphazard, Calico, Saddlebags, Daisy Foreman and others, all decided 

 acquisitions on the score of shape and appearance, though all showing more 

 or less the roundness of skull and shortness of muzzle, with the pinched 

 appearance their sire displayed. We take it, however, that he was the 

 next dog to do good to the setter following Pride of the Border. 



The Era of Mr. Windholz and the Blackstone Kennels 



We now come to an era that warms the heart of those who can recall 

 the dogs of 1885 and following years during which the dogs of Mr. Windholz 

 played such a conspicuous part at the leading shows of that period. This 

 gentleman started his prominent show career with Rockingham and Princess 

 Beatrice, and, as the former remained an unbeaten dog for some time, it is 

 always with considerable personal satisfaction we recall the facts attending 



