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celebrity both these kennels obtained later on, was, 

 in a great degree, owing to the discriminating pur- 

 chases made at Mr. Garth's. Mr. Price took away 

 four brace and Mr. Pilkington one brace, the latter 

 giving 67 guineas and 55 guineas respectively for 

 Major, by Drake Mite, and for Doll by Major- 

 Jill. Mr. Price's lots cost him more money, and 

 150 for the grand pointer Drake, then seven years 

 old, was the highest figure the Welsh squire gave, 

 and it was a high one for so old a dog. 



The Earl of Sefton sold his pointers the same 

 week, but the prices realised were not noteworthy. 



The first Field Trial meeting ever held took place 

 over Sir S. Whitbread's Bedfordshire estate at 

 Southall, April, 1866, and at which " Idstone " and 

 Mr. John Walker, of Halifax, were the judges both, 

 unfortunately, deceased. The day was by no means 

 favourable for good work, being hot and windless ; 

 notwithstanding this, judging from the points awarded 

 to the dogs, many of them were of the highest class. 

 Two of them, Mr. R. Garth's Jill and Mr. Fleming's 

 Dandy, made the highest number of points possible ; 

 and Mr. Brockton's Bounce, Mr. Whitehouse's 

 Hamlet, and Mr. J. A. Handy's Moll had 90 points 

 given them out of a possible hundred. Whilst 

 alluding to the maximum of points obtained in a 

 working trial by a pointer it would be an omission 



