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the 'Stonehenge' editions. In 1875 I imported a daughter of Plunket, 

 a sister to the field trials winner Kite, which, according to Mr. Teasdale 

 Buckell, was one of the best working setters in England, but my purchase 

 did not prove satisfactory, so the following year I got over a granddaughter 

 of Hutchinson's Bob; a far better specimen than the Plunket bitch and very 

 good on game, but unfortunately she died before I had any produce 

 from her. 



"Getting back to the record at the point we took this little recess, 

 we find two Barton's, each playing a part, in the trials, Mick being second 

 at the English K. C. trials and Punch taking second at the Irish fixture. 

 These were both of Palmerston and Elcho blood. Regalia was another 

 good winner in 1891. She was second in the Irish Puppy Stakes, Signal 

 winning; third Irish All-Ages Stakes, first in the Setter St. Leger and abso- 

 lute winner of the stakes, beating the English field trials winning pointer 

 Bertha of Draycott. In 1892 and 1893 she won the Irish All- Ages Stake, 

 while her full sister Clonsilla was first in the St. Leger at the Irish trials and 

 second for the Acton Reynald Stakes at the English K. C. meeting. These 

 were of Palmerston and Elcho blood. 



"Then there was that good dog Blue Rock, a brother to Signal and Miss 

 Signal. Blue Rock won first in the Setter St. Leger and won the stakes 

 outright, was second in the Irish Puppy Stakes and fourth in the All-Ages 

 Stakes and reserve for the Twenty Guineas Challenge Cup, his competitors 

 including all the winners at the Irish Trials of 1890. 



" Ben Sullivan was the only Irish competitor out of sixteen in the All- 

 Ages Stakes at the English K. C. trials of 1897 and won the stakes, while 

 two years prior he was placed third against seventeen competitors. The 

 Grand Challenge Cup for pointers and setters at the Irish Trials of 1903 

 was won by Donegal Rake, while his full brother, Strabane Palm, was first in 

 the Irish Setter All-Ages Stakes of 1902 and 1903. But there is little need 

 to prolong the record, so it will be closed with this summary: Third in 

 the English K. C. Derby of 1890; second, 1893; third, 1894; second and 

 fifth, 1896; first and equal fifth, 1897. An Irish setter was also placed in 

 1904, and the winner of fourth in the English Kennel Club All-Ages Stakes 

 of 1905 was the only Irish setter entry among twenty-two competitors. 



"Surely that is a most creditable showing when one considers that the 

 breed is so much fewer in numbers than the English setters and the pointers. 

 And does it not amply support the claim that, properly selected, bred,. 



