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highly. Perhaps the fastest pointer I ever saw was 

 Colonel Cotes' lemon and white Carlo, which gave 

 old Roberts, his trainer, so much trouble to keep 

 within working distance. 



Of some of the chief dogs at the earlier trials, 

 " Stonehenge," in his " Dogs of the British Isles," 

 says : 



Among the liver and whites the celebrated Drake, bred by 

 Sir R. Garth, and sold by him for ^"150 in his seventh season to 

 Mr. R. J. Lloyd Price, of Bala, was an example of speed and 

 endurance. This dog was in his day the fastest and most 

 wonderful animal that ever quartered a field, and his race up to a 

 brace of birds at Shrewsbury in the field trials of 1868, when the 

 ground was so dry as to cause a cloud of dust to rise on his 

 dropping to their scent, was a sight which will probably never be 

 seen again. He was truly a phenomenon among pointers. His 

 extraordinary pace compelled his dropping in this way, for other- 

 wise he could not have stopped himself in time, but when he had 

 lost more of his pace he began frequently to stand up. 



A very beautiful and racing bitch was Mr. Lloyd Price's Belle, 

 bred by Lord H. Bentinck, and bought by Mr. Price for 10 

 after winning a third prize at Manchester. She was at first fearfully 

 headstrong, and chased hares for many weeks persistently, being 

 far beyond her puppyhood and unbroken ; but the perseverance 

 of a young, and till then unknown, breaker, Anstey, overcame 

 these defects, and being tried in private to be good, she was 

 entered at Vaynol field trials in 1872, when she won the prize for 

 braces, and also that for bitches, being left in to contest the 

 disputed point of priority in the two breeds with Mr. Whitehouse's 

 Priam against Mr. Llewellyn's Countess and Nellie, both setters. 

 In this trial she succumbed to Countess, but turned the tables 

 on her at Bala in 1873. Being possessed of this beautiful and 



