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but would take a low place at a show. The 

 Llewellin dogs, on the contrary, have proved them- 

 selves capable bench show champions ; yet the 

 doings of the self-same dogs at field trials would 

 alone have been sufficient to place them at the 

 head of the list, even if they had possessed no 

 other qualification. 



" Mr. Llewellin has never, at any time, cared 

 to keep so large a kennel as some other setter 

 breeders, nor does he rear many during the year, 

 a fact, which should not be lost sight of when the 

 large proportion of show and field trial prizes which 

 have fallen to his setters is considered. 



"The 'blue ribbon' of field trials is held to be 

 the ' Braces Stakes,' and, next in estimation is 

 the field trial ' Derby,' the latter being a Kennel 

 Club event, and the former that of the National 

 Society. Mr. Llewellin's setters have won the 

 ' Braces Stakes ' twelve times, and the ' Derby ' four 

 times, whilst running second for those events on 

 additional occasions. The ' Derby ' was won three 

 years in succession by his dogs Sable Bondhu, 

 Dashing ditto, and Dashing Clinker. On the 

 occasion when Sable won in 1882, three other 

 puppies from the same kennel ran, and the four 

 were placed equal, though the owner preferred 

 that Sable Bondhu should have the honour, and 



