First Manchester Dog Show, 1861 275 



In the year 1861 was held the First Exhibition of Sporting and 

 other Dogs at the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester, but 

 I have not been able to trace its actual date, number of entries, or 

 the names of the judges. 



The Sporting Division was the stronger of the two, and Pointers, 

 with classes for dogs and bitches, large size, and dogs and bitches, 

 small size, had " pride of place." Setters were all shown together, 

 divided by sex only. Retrievers, Blood-hounds, Deer-hounds, and 

 Clumbers had one class each, while all other varieties of sporting 

 Spaniels, Harriers and Greyhounds had two classes each. 



In Non-Sporting Division, best entries were in Mastiffs (two classes), 

 Bull, Black-and-tan, and Yorkshire (still called Scotch) Terriers, 

 Skyes, Toys, and Foreign Dogs. Names of owners, and not of the 

 dogs, appear in record ! 



In 1862 was held the next important show, at the New Agricultural 

 Hall, Islington, London, June 24th to June 28th (I wonder how 

 exhibitors of the present day would like a five days' show at mid- 

 summer !). A Mr. T. D. Appleby, of Briggate, Leeds, was the 

 secretary, and it was called " North of England Second Exhibition 

 of Sporting and other Dogs." 



The names of the judges do not appear in my catalogue ; but I 

 see there were 803 entries, and some of the classes were remarkable 

 for their size, as I shall proceed to show. 



There were : Blood-hounds, 9 dogs, 5 bitches; Harriers, 7 dogs, 



13 bitches; Beagles, 7 dogs, 8 bitches; Greyhounds, 13 dogs, 



14 bitches ; Pointers (large size), 46 dogs, 20 bitches ; ditto (small 

 size), 1 8 dogs, 21 bitches; English Setters, 30 dogs, 8 bitches; 

 Black-and-tan Setters, 13 dogs, 9 bitches ; Irish Setters, 5 dogs, 

 3 bitches ; Retrievers, 38 dogs, 8 bitches ; Clumber Spaniels, 1 1 dogs, 

 7 bitches ; other Sporting Spaniels, 17 dogs, 9 bitches. 



In the Non-Sporting Division the size of some of the classes was 

 quite as remarkable as, in Mastiffs, both sexes shown together, we 

 find no less than 39 ! Newfoundlands had 26 in one class for both 

 sexes ; Dalmatians 8 ; large-sized Bull-dogs 20, and small-sized 9. 

 In the former, Mr. Lamphier's King Dick (one of the best dogs of 

 his day) was first, followed by Messrs. Bill George's Dan and Hinks's 

 Madman ; and, in the latter, Messrs. Orme's Violet and McDonald's 

 Lady were first and second. Bull-terriers followed with 38 ; Messrs. 

 Cross's Duchess, Edmons's Don, and Fred. White's Rattler, being 

 first, second, and third respectively. Black-and-tan Terriers over 

 5 Ib. had 36 entries, with Messrs. Fitter's Handy, Bayley's unnamed, 



