Dog Shows and Doggy People 



Mr. Samuel Darbey 



ALTHOUGH this fancier has almost entirely confined himself, as an 

 exhibitor, to one variety, Curly-coated Retrievers, he has brought 

 out so many good specimens from his West of England kennels that 

 his name is well known to many of my readers in connection with 

 them ; and when you see the prefix Tiverton in front of the names 



of any of those dogs, 

 you may expect to find 

 type and quality. I 

 have very often had 

 them before me in teams 

 of Sporting Dogs, and it 

 is seldom they are " out 

 of the money " in the 

 keenest competition. 



I am able to give an 

 excellent portrait of Mr. 

 Darbey, accompanied 

 by Champion Tiverton 

 Victor, a dog of the 

 highest class. 



As I remember dogs 

 from this kennel taking 

 bench honours so long 

 ago as the seventies 

 (beginning, I think, with 

 his Doctor and Wonder, 

 who in those days were 

 constantly sent to shows 

 all over the country 

 quite unattended, but 

 generally were high up in the prize lists, and sometimes captured 

 the prize for Best Sporting Dog in the Show), I am sorry to hear 

 their owner, whose business as a manufacturer requires his whole 

 attention, contemplates retiring altogether from the show rings, and 

 can only hope some enterprising fancier will take up the running, 

 which, with such an excellent strain to work with, ought to promise 

 considerable chances of rivalling the successes so long obtained by 

 the owner of the Tiverton kennels in all the best assemblies of 

 Doggy People. 



From photo by Walter Mudford, Tiverton 



MR. SAMUEL DARBEY WITH HIS CURLY-COATED 

 RETRIEVER CHAMPION TIVERTON VICTOR 



