250 GOOD SPORT 



line^ possessing clean shoulders, deep, full chest and 

 ribs, intelligent, shapely head, and supple, muscular 

 limbs. Fallible was pronounced by the late Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke to be the best hound of his 

 day, the Diike of Grafton also offering a large sum 

 of money for his purchase. A great hound in his 

 work, Gillard used him extensively, and we get his 

 blood through Dexter ('95) in the fifth generation. 



Weathergauge's m.ost illustrious son was un- 

 doubtedly Gambler ('84), from Gratitude ('80), the 

 top bitch of the kennel by Gallant from Snowdrop, 

 straining back to Senator. A hound of immense 

 substance and beautiful quality. Gambler, as a type 

 of strength and symmetry, was the ideal for sculptor, 

 poet, and painter. Standing 23 inches at the 

 shoulder, he showed great muscular development, 

 with bone right down to his toes. Rich in colour- 

 ing, his head had that brainy appearance suggestive 

 of the highest intelligence. In the field he was 

 perfect and everlasting, running with the pack up 

 to his eleventh season, when he was drafted for 

 deafness, allowed to roam at large in the woods 

 around the kennels, an honoured pensioner. 

 Gambler's services were in great demand as a sire, 

 and he comes into pedigrees wherever there are 

 hounds of any note, his stock being remarkable for 

 their durability and stoutness. 



Pirate ('86), by Procter ('81) from Night-watch, 

 combining the blood of Struggler and Founder, was 

 another celebrity bred by Frank Gillard, considered 

 by some the best stallion hound of his day. He 

 was a red-tan dog, a good-bodied hound, deep in 

 the rib and wide in the loin, standing on capital 

 feet and legs. Pirate had but one fault — he never 

 wanted to leave off hunting. 



When Frank Gillard retired in 1896 from the 



