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cup, but the winner of the honour, in addition to the 

 stake already mentioned, receives a silver collar 

 which he retains uncil the meeting following the one 

 at which he won the stake. 



Going back not many years there are met with 

 such well-known names as Cerito, winner of the 

 Waterloo Cup three times when a thirty-two dog 

 stake ; Hughie Graham, Larriston, Judge, King 

 Lear, Captain Spencer's handsome dog Sunbeam, 

 Mr. Blackstock's Maid of the Mill, Canaradzo, 

 Cardinal York, Sea Rock, Roaring Meg, Chloe, 

 Mr. G. Carruthers' Meg, Brigadier, Lobelia, Sea 

 Cove, Bit of Fashion, Miss Glendyne, Greater Scot, 

 Herschel, Mr. Pilkington's Burnaby ; Bab at the 

 Bowster, Pretender, Chameleon, Muriel, Peasant 

 Boy, Gallant Foe, with Coomassie (only 44-llb. 

 weight), the smallest greyhound that ever won the 

 " Cup," and she did so twice. Of course there were 

 other great greyhounds, but the blood of those 

 above, or of many of them, will be found in the 

 pedigrees of the most successful dogs of the present 

 day. 



The advent of Lord Lurgan's Master McGrath, as 

 a puppy, in 1868, caused a great sensation. He was 

 a rather coarse animal in appearance, but he could 

 gallop faster than any dog he ever met, and was 

 extremely "handy" with his teeth, i.e., he usually 



