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name of Sir Stafford will probably be remembered 

 more as the sire of Frigga Secunda and Cardinal 

 Beaufort than as a show dog. Nor must Capt. 

 Piddocke's Ogilvie be forgotten, for he is probably 

 the best brindled mastiff ever exhibited, and as 

 a sire he has already made his mark, so desirable 

 a specimen of the race as Brampton Beauty owing 

 paternity to him. And a word must be said, too, 

 for Montgomery, the sire of the good headed but 

 bad limbed Kaiser Frederic, Duke Rollo, and 

 Mr. W. Norman Higgs' admirable bitch Coombe 

 Baroness. But during the past two years there 

 has been a lull in the production of mastiffs of 

 marked excellence, the breeding seasons having 

 been disastrous in the extreme. 



" Since the days when Crown Prince, Cambrian 

 Princess, H.M. King Canute and Maximillian, made 

 Mr. H. G. Woolmore's name as a breeder, Dr. J. 

 Sidney Turner, Mr. W. K. Taunton, the Rev. H. K. E. 

 van Doorre, Capt. Piddocke, and Mr. Cook have 

 been the most successful exhibitors, although others, 

 including Mr. A. Andrews of Stafford, have done 

 much in producing admirable specimens, nor must 

 the name of Mr. J. Hutching, of Exeter, be omitted. 

 But, on the other hand, such old fanciers as Mr. E. 

 Nichols and Mr. Mark Beaufoy, the breeder of Beau, 

 appear to have retired, and their places will be hard 

 to fill. 



