PETERBOROUGH MEMORIES, 1881-1909 27 



There is abundant evidence that fifty years of 

 foxhound competition on the flags has been the 

 means of bringing into prominence the best quahties 

 sought after by breeders throughout the kingdom. 

 The names of the first winners, Wynnstay Royal, 

 Lord Coventry's Roman, Milton Somerset, Brocklesby 

 Ambrose, Oakley Rhymer, and many others are 

 perpetuated in pedigrees to-day, handing down 

 merit in foxhound blood that cannot be mistaken. 

 This is a strong argument in favour of breeding for 

 good looks as well as good work, the study of the 

 extended pedigree of the winning couple of the 

 Jubilee Cup, containing, as it does, a succession of 

 past celebrities as evidence that like begets like. 



The far-extending influence of the Peterborough 

 show on hound-breeding may be judged by a study 

 of the prize list on the last occasion, 1909, when, in 

 addition to the old-established winning kennels, such 

 as the Fitzwilliam, the Warwickshire, and the Mey- 

 nell, the East Kilkenny, under the mastership of 

 Lord Southampton, sent the best single unentered 

 bitch-hound, and the Cattistock, under the master- 

 ship of the Rev. E. A. Milne with W. Metcalf, hunts- 

 man, won the champion prize for the best bitch 

 in the show. 



In the words with which Earl Fitzwilliam con- 

 cluded his presidential speech at Peterborough, we 

 finish this brief sketch of many pleasant memories 

 of the summer meet on the flags : " It is fifty 

 years since the show was started, and we hope that 

 it will be fifty times fifty before it experiences an 

 ending." 



