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such as to make him almost invincible. Unfor- 

 tunately, I never saw him run, and have heard so 

 many different opinions as to his merits that I 

 can say very little upon the subject. He was an 

 uncertain dog, but, this notwithstanding, he must 

 be included with the dogs of his time such as 

 Count Wind'em, Phantom, Drake, Dash II., Belle; 

 with Countess and Nellie, who, at the Vaynol trials, 

 in 1872, ran so well as a brace that they were given 

 by the judges the full hundred points as near the 

 head of his race, and it has been said of him 

 that when in the humour he was " as steady and 

 dependable as a steam locomotive." During 

 Ranger's career from 1873 to 1877 he won seven 

 stakes and special prizes, and, if at times his work 

 was not quite perfect, he, in the opinion of the 

 judges, usually made up for some little delinquency 

 by finding and standing birds in an extraordinary 

 and brilliant manner. Ranger was a plain-looking 

 indeed, an ugly little dog, white with black and 

 slight tan marks. He was bred by Mr. Macdona 

 from his Judy by Paul Hackett's Rake Calver's 

 Countess; his sire being Quince II. by Jones' 

 Quince I. Lort's Dip. 



An interesting trial would, no doubt, have been 

 fought could he have been brought against Dr. 

 Wood's lemon and white Fred, who proved himself 



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