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Beagles were small entries, in which Messrs. H. A. Clark and 

 F. R. Neville took the money. 



Fox-terriers produced the grand entry of about 120, Mr. J. 

 Fletcher's leading off in Champions with Rattler, and Mr. J. Wootton 

 the like with Lille. In Large Dogs the winners were Messrs. W. J. 

 Hyde (with Buffett) and J. Slade (with Willie) ; in Large Bitches, 

 Messrs. W. Hulse (with Nottingham Star) and G. J. Ireland (with 

 Trinket) ; in Small Dogs, Messrs. J. Fletcher (with Trimmer) and 

 T. Wootton (with Badminton); in Small Bitches, Messrs. Jack Terry 

 (with Bell) and W. Gillett (with Gerty). 



Pointers were a grand entry of seventy-five dogs and bitches, 

 not merely entries, as now, and comprised most of the best 

 then living, the Large-sized Champions being Mr. Lloyd Price's 

 beautiful Wagg and Mr. C. H. Mason's Lady Isabel, the Small- 

 sized Champions Mr. J. H. Whitehouse's Cedric and Mr. J. 

 Fletcher's Luna, and the winners in the Open Classes Messrs. 

 T. Sturgeon, J. Pilkington, Thorpe Bartram, G. Moore, and 

 R. P. Leach. 



English Setters had fifty entries, Mr. J. Fletcher's Rock and 

 Mr. Van Wart's Belle being the winners in Champions. Mr. G. 

 de L. Macdona, was first in Open Dogs with Blue Prince II., and 

 all the rest were taken by Mr. Purcell-Llewellin with his Count Dick, 

 Princess, and Novell. 



In Gordons, which numbered nearly thirty, the champions were 

 Mr. Coath's Lang and Mr. Parson's Floss, the other prizes falling 

 to Mr. Richardson's Duke, Captain Rankin's Monarch, Mr. Eglinton's 

 Nell, and Mr. Negus's Sherry. 



Irish Setters were just two short of the number of Gordons. Mr. 

 Milliard's well-known Palmerston was winner in Champions, other 

 prizes going to the entries of Messrs. G. de L. Macdona, Kennedy, 

 J. H. O'Brien, and J. S. Skidmore. 



Retrievers had an entry of sixty-two of both varieties, the winners 

 in Champion Classes being Mr. Gorse's Wave and Mr. Andrews's 

 Beaver, the winners in other classes being Messrs. A. Large and 

 E. Ellis in Curlies, and Messrs. S. E. Shirley, J. A. Platt, Gorse, 

 and Pulsford in Wavies. 



The winners in Irish Water-spaniels were Messrs. J. S. Skidmore, 

 Ebdell, J. Fletcher, Mason, and Captain Arbuthnott, the two last 

 named in Water-spaniels, not Irish. 



Messrs. P. Bullock, Spurgin, and J. Fletcher took all the prizes in 

 Clumber Spaniels. 



