246 Modern Dogs. 



not to mention Mr. Lloyd Price's handsome bitch 

 Belle, who at the Vaynol trials in 1872 made the 

 perfect score of 100, though in the champion plate 

 she was beaten by Mr. Llewellin's setter Countess. 



Our modern winners do not appear to have quite 

 reached these high figures, and, as a comparison, 

 I will give the following figures awarded at the 

 Pointer Club Trials, that took place over Lord 

 Kenyon's estate near Wrexham in 1889. Here 

 the maximum points were 100, and Mr. F. 

 Lowe's Belle des Bordes was given 98; Mr. Heywood 

 Lonsdale's Crab, 96; Mr. C. H. Beck's Quits Baby, 

 94 ; and Mr. Lloyd Price's Miss Sixpence 88, these 

 running in the all-aged stake. The puppies did not 

 do so well, and the maximums reached were 66 and 57 

 by Mr. Beck's Pax of Upton and his Quail of Upton, 

 and 62 by the late Mr. T. Statter's Toil. This was 

 the last occasion in this country upon which a field 

 trial was judged by points. 



The disparity in the above numerals, we should 

 say, lies more in the method and in the opinion of 

 the judges rather than in the fact that the modern 

 pointer is inferior in his work to that of a quarter of 

 a century ago. As a matter of fact, nowadays the 

 work got out of the properly trained dogs should be 

 of a far higher class than was formerly the case, for 

 the largest owners of field trial dogs have special 



