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exhausted. The expenses of keeping a kennel of 

 greyhounds are very high, and, although many of 

 the stakes to be won are valuable, coursing can only 

 be considered an expensive amusement, and we 

 fancy that neither Messrs. Fawcett or Mr. Pilking- 

 ton, with all their successes, have made it pay. In 

 one season — 1885-6 — the latter won in stakes about 

 ;^I900, and this included the Kempton Park ;^iooa 

 stake, which was placed to the credit of the St. 

 Helen's courser by means of his dog Phoebus. In 

 1894 the same owner's stakes amounted to ;^'iioo, 

 but in the following year they did not reach ;^8oo. 

 But the expenses of training, railway fares, &c., 

 would, doubtless, far more than swallow up such 

 sums, large though they seem. I should not be at 

 all surprised to find Mr. Pilkington's total of £igoo 

 for the season a record one, notwithstanding the 

 recent triumphs of Messrs. Fawcett. 



In Scotland, Sir W. Anstruther, Sir R. Jardine, 

 Mr. J. Russel, Mr. W. Patterson, and others,, 

 hold first-class dogs in their kennels. Ireland as 

 coursers has Mr. G. J. Alexander, Mr. F. Watson, 

 Mr. Swinburne, Captain Archdale, Mr. R. M. 

 Douglas, and many others, most of whom have 

 had or will have greyhounds which can hold 

 their own anywhere. Gallant little Wales is not 

 without her representatives, of whom the Marquis 



