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u Since the time of Crown Prince we have had 

 many splendid mastiffs, but for good all-round merit 

 there has been nothing to excel Beaufort and 

 Minting of the one sex, or Cambrian Princess and 

 Mr. C. C. Rice's Frigga Secunda of the other. 

 Possessing, as he did, not the smallest drop of 

 Crown Prince's blood, it was to be regretted when 

 Minting left this country for America, and even his 

 brother, Charley Wood, who, though neither so 

 good nor so famous, would have proved of immense 

 service to breeders, had he been left us. 



11 Dr. Sidney Turner's, afterwards the Rev. H. K. 

 van Doorne's, Orlando, if not by any means the 

 most perfect of Crown Prince's progeny, was 

 perhaps the most conspicuous, and he has fortu- 

 nately given us many good mastiffs with a large 

 share of their sire's good points, and with but 

 little sign of his deplorable hind quarters. The 

 best of these were Mr. W. K. Taunton's Griselda, 

 and Mr. C. C. Rice's Frigga, whilst others who did, 

 or did not, excel in head points, conclusively proved 

 Orlando to have been capable of begetting excellent 

 limbs on his stock, a case in point being Mrs. Lee's 

 Holda. Orlando's brother, a later litter, and Mr. 

 W. K. Taunton's Hotspur, will also be remembered 

 as the sire of many winners, notably Constable and 

 Carshalton Prince. 



