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one of the best field trial dogs of more recent 

 years. Unfortunately, he had not a long reign, 

 flourishing, as our history would say, between 1891- 

 92, both dates inclusive. Bred by Mr. T. Webber, 

 of Falmouth, in August, 1886, Fred was by Prince 

 W. Moll W. ; Prince by Sam IV. Moll III. ; Sam 

 by Young Rollick Nell ; but Fred's dam does not 

 appear in the stud books. He was a lemon and 

 white ticked dog, well made and symmetrical, but 

 scarcely up to high-class show form in appearance, 

 his head being more characteristic of the Irish 

 rather than of the English setter. Fred made his 

 mark as a Field Trial dog, and perhaps on all points 

 had never many superiors ; although, on his first 

 appearance in 1890, he was put out of the aged 

 competition at the National Trials because he failed 

 to back, and Mr. Llewellin's Satin Bondhu won the 

 stake. The latter, if not quite so fast as Fred, had 

 shown a better nose by finding birds the scent of which 

 Dr. Wood's dog failed to hit, though the latter was well 

 in front at the time. As is the case with almost all 

 fast dogs, this failing to back was, at any rate in the 

 early portion of his career, Fred's chief defect. 

 He won four stakes outright, the special cup on 

 two occasions, once he was placed third only, when 

 without injustice he should have been second, and 

 on two other occasions he owed defeat to his 



