The Greyhound. 



invincible in the work that he had done, winning in 

 public thirty-six courses out of thirty-seven in which 

 he competed. 



But there was the Irish dog's equal, indeed, more 

 than his equal, to come, and in 1888 Mr. James 

 Dent, a Northumberland courser, who had already 

 proved very successful with his kennel, had a puppy 

 by Greentick Bit of Fashion, by his favourite 

 Paris by Ptarmigan Gallant Foe ; Paris w r as of 

 the same litter as Princess Dagmar, who won the 

 Waterloo Cup in 1881. This puppy, Fullerton, he 

 thought exceptional in speed and cleverness, but 

 before competing in the Waterloo Cup, it was pur- 

 chased by Colonel North, at that time entering 

 heartily into the sport of greyhound coursing. Eight 

 hundred and fifty guineas was the sum given for the 

 puppy, the highest price ever paid for a greyhound 

 in public, though in private it has been said much 

 higher sums have been obtained. His trials were 

 so good that he started second favourite for the 

 Waterloo Cup in 1889, and, as the great Irish dog 

 had done a few years before, fairly spread-eagled all 

 comers, and ultimately divided with his kennel com- 

 panion Troughend. In 1890 Fullerton won outright ; 

 he did likewise in 1891, and being kept back for the 

 following season's Waterloo, notwithstanding an 

 indifferent trial that he had run in public, started 



