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Shandon III., Finglass, and Geraldine, are good 

 enough whether beaten or not ; and Mr. Ellis's 

 Drogheda, and his Dartrey, Rossmore, Tarbat, &c., 

 formed, perhaps, as fine a team of red setters as ever 

 stood a grouse. The first named was an unlucky 

 dog in the trials, making some serious mistake or 

 other, either through his own fault or his handler's, 

 just as he appeared to be winning the chief prize. 

 By show goers Mr. H. M. Wilson's Nellie will long 

 be remembered for her successes on the bench, a 

 bitch whose beauty we have brought to our recol- 

 lection by an excellent portrait of her by the great 

 animal painter Basil Bradley. 



Mr. W. H. Cooper, at Ashbourne, in Derbyshire, 

 has for some time had, perhaps, a larger kennel of 

 Irish setters than anyone else, and their excellences 

 have been known both on the bench and in the field. 

 The names of his Wrestler, Finnigan's Wake, Sure 

 Death, Vicar, and Woodbine, will, we fancy, be 

 found in future pedigrees where a combination of 

 the "best blue blood" is desired; for such will 

 ensure that its possessors can gallop and stay with 

 any dog pitted against them during the most arduous 

 field trial work imaginable. At the Irish trials at 

 Omagh, in 1889, there were a number of extraordinary 

 dogs running, amongst them Henmore Sure Death, 

 and Woodbine (bred by Mr. Hawkes), fast and 



