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Of these very excellent specimens, Colonel 

 Wellesley must have the honour of being first in 

 the field with Krilutt, who made an early appearance 

 and a most successful one it was at the Kennel 

 Club show, when held at the Alexandra Palace in 

 1889 the year of the bloodhound trials. Krilutt 

 had come with a great reputation as the winner 

 of a silver medal at Moscow, and quite bore out 

 all the good words that had been said of him. 

 Exquisite in coat and colour the latter white with 

 light markings of pale fawn he stood taller than 

 any other dog in his class, and up to this period and 

 for some time after was certainly the best Borzoi I 

 had seen. Since, two or three have appeared that 

 are, I believe, quite his equals. Whether it is worth 

 while mentioning a dog named Zloeem, which, a 

 year later, had been purchased in Russia by an 

 American gentleman, Mr. Paul Hacke, is an open 

 question. However, it was said that Zloeem could 

 lower the colours of Krilutt and all other opponents, 

 and at Brighton and the Crystal Palace was pro- 

 duced for the purpose of doing so. How com- 

 pletely he failed is now a matter of history a 

 second-rate dog only when at his very best. 



Mr. Freeman Lloyd has had a good dog or two, 

 smaller perhaps than the cracks ; but his Whirlwind 

 will always be a typical specimen, and if not quite so 



