174 THE COMPLETE SHOT 



" Bruce Mr. G. Teasdale-Buckell's, Wellesley Hall, Ashby- 

 de-la-Zouch : breeder, owner, born 1 869 (dead). Pedigree : By 

 Lord Rosslyn's Rokeby (No. 1622) out of Blaze, by Old Reuben 

 out of Belle, by Kent (No. 1600) out of Duchess, by Nell out 

 of Stella, by Lord Chesterfield's Regent (purchased at the 

 Duke of Gordon's sale) out of a Marquis of Anglesea bitch: 

 Regent, black-white-and-tan, was by Old Regent out of the 

 Duke of Gordon's Ellen." 



Duchess was a light-made black-and-tan, and her dam 

 was by the undoubted black-white-and-tan Gordon for which 

 Lord Chesterfield gave 72 gs. to Tattersall's at the Duke's 

 dispersal sale, and her mother was a Marquis of Angle- 

 sea bitch. Where did the black-and-tan colour of Duchess 

 come from ? The reply is, not from Stella at all, but from Ned 

 (mistakenly entered as Nell) in the pedigree quoted ; and he got 

 his colour from Mr. F. Burdett's Brougham, which there is 

 nothing to show was a Gordon at all, although he was descended 

 from black-and-tans on one side at least. This same Brougham 

 became the ancestor of the most famous breed of English 

 setters namely, the descendants of Mr. Tom Statter's Rhcebe, 

 winners of hundreds of field trials in this country and America, 

 and which are still the best setters there are. 



But when the breed became crossed with the Lord Rosslyn's 

 and Kent strains of black-and-tan blood, it practically ceased 

 to be the setter at all in a very few generations. That is why 

 any attempted revival of the black-and-tans ought to be based 

 on dogs the ancestors of which for generations have been good 

 enough to keep for work, and with no ulterior objects. But it 

 would be an uphill business, for nothing in breeding is more 

 certain than that colour is indicative of blood, and to select for 

 black-and-tans would be to select the wrong type a hundred 

 times in a hundred and one. 



On the other hand, if any of the old light-made black-and- 

 tan dogs, with dish faces instead of hound profiles, could be 

 found, the black-and-tan colour is so prepotent that they might 

 have any cross of parti-coloured strain and yet perhaps not 

 show it in the colour in the first generation. Although black- 



