The Greyhound. 153 



that achieved by a racing man who wins "the 

 Derby ' the blue ribbon of the leash. 



From time to time all the celebrities, and many 

 others not celebrities, in the greyhound world, 

 have run at Altcar, so kindly and liberally provided' 

 by the Earl of Sefton, who, by so doing, must, more 

 than any other man, have promoted the honest sport 

 of greyhound coursing. 



Going back not many years there are met with such 

 well-known names as Cerito, winner of the Waterloo 

 Cup three times when a thirty-two dog stake ; 

 Hughie Graham, Larriston, Judge, King Lear, 

 Captain Spencer's handsome dog Sunbeam, Mr. 

 Blackstock's Maid of the Mill, Canaradzo, Cardinal 

 York, Sea Rock, Roaring Meg, Chloe, Mr. G. 

 Carruthers' Meg, Brigadier, Lobelia, Sea Cove, Bit 

 of Fashion, Miss Glendyne, Greater Scot, Herschel, 

 Mr. Pilkington's Burnaby ; Bab at the Bowster, Pre- 

 tender, Chameleon, Muriel, Peasant Boy, Gallant Foe, 

 with Coomassie (only 44ilb. weight), the smallest 

 greyhound that ever won the " Cup," and she did 

 so twice. Of course there were other great grey- 

 hounds, but the blood of those above, or of many of 

 them, will be found in the pedigrees of the most 

 successful dogs of the present day. 



Following such good ones as some of the above, 

 the advent of Lord Lurgan's Master McGrath, as a 



