SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



have a reputation second to none for their care 

 and upbringing of greyhounds, and quite natu- 

 rally they watch the public careers of their 

 whilom charges with the deepest interest. 



As will be readily inferred, Cumberland has 

 the credit of producing a long array of famous 

 greyhounds during the sixty years public cours- 

 ing has been carried on in the county. The 

 palm of superiority, from every point of view, 

 must undoubtedly be accorded to ' Judge,' bred 

 in 1852 by the Rev. John Fox of St. Bees, 

 and owned by his friend Mr. Henry Jefferson 

 of Rothersyke near Egremont. Mr. Jeffer- 

 son was the owner of running greyhounds as 

 far back as 1840, winning cups at White- 

 haven, Workington and elsewhere. 'Judge' 

 was by Mr. Jefferson's own dog ' John Bull ' 

 (by Jebb's'Lodore'out of 'Jane'), and his dam 

 was Mr. Fox's ' Fudge ' (by < Oliver Twist ' 

 out of ' Fairy,' by the celebrated Cockermouth 

 dog ' Carronade ' out of ' Gamut,' another of 

 Mr. Fox's kennel). ' Judge ' was therefore a 

 thorough Cumberland bred dog. He was a 

 red dog, and when a puppy he divided a stake 

 at Workington, besides winning the Altcar 

 Club Cup in Lancashire. In the same year 

 he ran in the Waterloo Cup, and was beaten 

 in the third round by the eventual winner, 

 Lord Sefton's ' Sackcloth.' In his second sea- 

 son however ' Judge ' commenced by winning 

 the Bridekirk Cup, and then attained the pin- 

 nacle of fame by securing the Waterloo Cup, 

 as the representative of Mr. (now Sir Thomas) 

 Brocklebank, whilst the following year he again 

 made a bold bid for Waterloo Cup honours, 

 running second to ' Protest ' after an ' unde- 

 cided,' and for the second time representing 

 Mr. Brocklebank. ' Judge's ' peculiarity a 

 very rare one was that he required little or 

 no training ; in other words, he trained him- 

 self into condition. As an instance of his 

 wonderful constitution, he had only been 

 about a week in hand prior to winning the 

 Bridekirk Cup, and at the close of the ordeal 

 was fit to run on, in spite of the stout hares. 

 During his famous running career it is a 

 singular fact that ' Judge ' in three of his five 

 defeats was vanquished by the ultimate win- 

 ner after ' undecideds.' In one instance he 

 went to slips three times with ' Bright Idea ' 

 in the Champion Cup at Biggar, in Lanark- 

 shire, whilst he had to be drawn lame after an 

 ' undecided ' with the Lancashire bitch ' Jael,' 

 winner of the Druid Cup on the Wiltshire 

 Downs. From the foregoing it will be gathered 

 that ' Judge ' was at home in any country, and 

 it will suffice to add that in all he won twenty- 

 eight courses out of thirty-three. At the 

 stud Mr. Jefferson's wonderful greyhound was 

 equally successful. He was the sire of three 



Waterloo Cup winners, namely 'Clive,' 'Maid 

 of the Mill ' and ' Chloe,' the second referred 

 to being a Cumberland bitch, of whom more 

 anon. To wind up our reference to ' Judge,' 

 his stout blood is to be found in at least three- 

 fourths of the Waterloo Cup winners down to 

 the present day. His pedigree traces back to 

 the latter part of the eighteenth century. In 

 ' Judge's ' earlier times his progenitors were 

 decidedly in-bred, a circumstance that would 

 be carefully avoided in these latter days, in 

 contradistinction to a hundred years ago when 

 people were not so particular. 



At this stage it will be appropriate to in- 

 troduce Sir Thomas Brocklebank as a pro- 

 minent Cumbrian courser, the more so that 

 he was a contemporary of Mr. Henry Jeffer- 

 son, the Rev. John Fox and many others who 

 were pillars of the pastime in the early 'forties.' 

 Of that worthy school he is the only represen- 

 tative left, and from 1847 down to the pres- 

 ent time he has been actively engaged in 

 coursing pursuits all over the kingdom. During 

 his long career Sir Thomas Brocklebank has 

 bred and run many first-class greyhounds that 

 have done him suit and service at the meet- 

 ings of the Altcar and Ridgway Clubs, and 

 many other clubs in different parts of the 

 country, not omitting the Waterloo Cup and 

 the Whitehaven and Workington Clubs of the 

 old days. He was also a prominent member 

 of the National Coursing Club during a long 

 period of years. Sir Thomas Brocklebank's 

 most notable greyhounds have been ' Border 

 Boy,' ' Britomart,' ' Beer,' ' Bowfell,' ' Bees- 

 wing,' ' Brigade,' 'Bacchante,' ' Bishop,' <Bur- 

 lador,' ' Biere,' ' Black Veil ' and ' Border Song.' 

 He bred them all with the exception of ' Bor- 

 der Boy,' bought as a puppy in 1850, and 

 ' Brigade,' given to him by his friend Mr. 

 Henry Jefferson, also when a puppy, in 1866. 

 'Britomart' won the Altcar Club Cup in 1852, 

 ' Bowfell ' was second for the Waterloo Cup 

 in 1862, and nineteen years later 'Bishop' 

 occupied the same tantalizing position, whilst 

 the brilliant ' Brigade ' (a grand-daughter of 

 ' Judge ' through her dam ' Java ') reached the 

 last four at Waterloo, when the Irish wonder, 

 ' Master McGrath,' was victorious. Subse- 

 quently ' Brigade ' divided the Altcar Club 

 Cup and won the Bridekirk Cup. But ' Bac- 

 chante's ' record was, if anything, of higher 

 merit than any of the foregoing greyhounds, 

 as she ran second for the South Lancashire 

 Stakes (Ridgway Club), won the Waterloo 

 Purse, won and divided the Altcar Cup, and 

 was runner-up for the Craven Cup over the 

 historical Ashdown country. ' Bacchante's ' 

 greatest performance, though unsuccessful, was 

 when she met the celebrated ' Bab at the Bow- 



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