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Colonel Inge's winning the first prize. Of this 

 bitch it was said at the time that " she was one of 

 the handsomest ever seen, and had been bred at 

 St. John's, from the best stock in the colony." At 

 the Agricultural Hall, in 1862, classes for both 

 dogs and bitches were provided. There was a 

 capital entry of forty-one, and Mr. A. Minton's 

 Nigger won in dogs, and a Mr. Davies both prizes 

 in bitches. Birmingham had seventeen entries in 

 the same year, and at a large exhibition, also in 

 1862, which took place in Holborn, nineteen entries 

 were obtained, a dog named Azoff first. Two years 

 later, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, at the London 

 show, won first prize with a fine dog called Cabot, 

 and most of these early winners were either black 

 or with a little white on their chests, or on one or 

 more of their feet. H.R.H.'s Cabot must not be 

 confounded with Mr. T. Burgess' dog of the same 

 name, which did a considerable amount of winning 

 a few years later. However, few of the above were 

 of any particular excellence; but in 1867, at Curzon 

 Hall, we were introduced to the Rev. S. Atkinson's 

 Cato, who was by Heenan I. out of Nellie. Both 

 the sire and dam of Cato were said to be descended 

 from imported parents. 



Cato was an exceptionally fine black dog, and for a 

 series of years remained the monarch of the benches. 



