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amongst the prize winners at Birmingham and other important 

 shows of that period, while Vesta, judged by " Idstone," at Barn- 

 staple and other local shows, usually won with ease. 



As a matter of course, their blood was greatly sought after, 

 especially by neighbouring kennels, and wherever it found its way 

 it proved successful. For example, Sancho, bred to his niece 

 Sappho, produced that nearly perfect specimen of a pointer Wagg, 

 which was so successfully shown by Mr. R. J. Lloyd Price, of 

 Bala, and, bred to the late Mr. R. P. Leach's Fan whose 

 ancestors were from the North of Devon produced Leach's 

 Belle, probably the most successful brood bitch of that 

 day. Amongst her numerous offspring were the Champions 

 Bang II. and Bow Bells, Bonus Sancho, Merry Bells, Belle of the 

 Ball, and Grant's Maggie, all of which were sired by Price's Bang. 

 We shall find Chang best represented by his union with Romp, 

 a small, compactly made bitch, owned by the late Mr. Bracken- 

 bury, of Exeter ; her performances in the field were of the highest 

 order, and her excellence as a worker was transmitted to her 

 progeny. From these Mr. J. H. Salter's well known black and 

 whites, alluded to later on, are descended. 



Besides being the dam of Mr. Sam Price's world-renowned 

 Bang, Vesta's name is brought down to us through her daughter 

 Sappho, dam of Wagg, already named, and Pearl, dam of Mr. 

 E. C. Norrish's lemon and white Beryl, a famous bench winner at 

 Birmingham and elsewhere, from whom again spring Mr. 

 Norrish's Revel III. and his Saddleback, that quite recently were 

 almost invincible in the show way. For size, substance, and 

 quality combined, Vesta would doubtless compare favourably with 

 any bitch of the present day, and it has always appeared to me a 

 regretful circumstance that Mr. Price allowed her to leave this 

 country at so early a period in her career. From her the most 

 conspicuous representatives of the Bow kennels are descended, 

 amongst them being the above-mentioned Bang, who, with his 

 son Mike, won for Mr. Price the Cloverly Stakes at Shrewsbury 

 three years in succession ; Belle of Bow, Lad of Bow, Lass of 



