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He was out of a Gladstone bitch and when bred back to the Gladstone bitch 

 Gem threw the htter in which were Gath's Mark and Gath's Hope. This 

 line has not been so successful of late as have others, however. Roderigo 

 was a most successful son of Count Noble. He also was out of a Gladstone 

 bitch, and we have from him a number of lines, prominent among them 

 being Antonio, from whom we had Rodfield, Tony Boy and Tony Gale, and 

 there is little prospect at present of losing tracings to Antonio and Roderigo 

 in the best dogs at the field trials. Count Gladstone IV. is bred like Roder- 

 igo, and he was another most successful sire, his son, Lady's Count Glad- 

 stone, being the phenomenal sire of 1904 in field trial records, no less than 

 fourteen placed dogs being by him, while second to him come Count 

 Danstone, his litter brother, and Rodfield, each with four to his credit 

 during the year. 



While Count Noble was purely Dan-Laverack, he had an extra infusion 

 of Laverack blood through his sire Count Wind'em, who was by the Dan- 

 Laverack dog Count Dick, out of the pure Laverack Phantom, a sister to 

 Petrel, dam of Gladstone. This makes the Count Noble and Gladstone 

 cross very close in-breeding, for in the pedigree of Count Noble we have 

 Count Dick, already mentioned, by Dan out of Countess, and Nora, the 

 dam, was by Dan out of Nellie, sister to Countess. Then Phantom and 

 Peeress the other two bitches in the pedigree are, as already stated, full 

 sisters. 



Again we have the dam of Lady's Count Gladstone and Count Dan- 

 stone, in-bred also. This was Dan's Lady, by Dan Gladstone, son of 

 Gladstone out of the Druid bitch Sue; and Lady's dam by Gath's Mark, by 

 Gath out of Gem, both with a Gladstone cross. In Dan's Lady we have 

 a cross of Dash III., a dog that is not Llewellyn according to any reasonable 

 interpretation of what that word may mean. He was bred by John Arm- 

 strong, and was by a Laverack dog out of Old Kate, who was by another 

 Laverack out of the pedigreeless E. Armstrong's Kate. Dash III. became 

 quite prominent in pedigrees of noted performers, and it behooved the 

 promoters of the " Llewellyns " to do something to keep the winners within 

 their fold, so they decided to extend the pale and admit the pedigreeless 

 Kate as worthy of becoming a progenitor of the commercial breed. This 

 was no novelty for a similar thing was done in the case of Dash II. and Sam, 

 dogs introduced into Mr. Llewellyn's kennels as out-crosses; something he 

 was always practising, and as soon as it became evident that breeders were 



