38 The Sporting Dog 



from the influence of the field trial winners ; dogs 

 which, from their compact shape, naturally have 

 a tendency to thickness in the head. 



Perhaps the most extreme example of the de- 

 parture of field trial pointers from the old bench 

 show fancy is Jingo's Light, himself a trial winner 

 and sire of Champion Percival Jingo. Light is 

 also recognized as the correct cross for Rip Rap 

 and other King of Kent blood, he being Main- 

 spring, Duke of Hessen, Croxteth, and Naso of 

 Kippen blood, with no line to King of Kent. 

 He is small, thick in cheek, white with lemon 

 spots only on the ears, and has ears set high. 

 It looks as if there might be trouble ahead on 

 the benches over pointer type; maybe the Eng- 

 lish setter battle repeated. 



Much better in bench type are two young 

 liver-and-white dogs, out in the past two seasons, 

 Alford's John and Alpine Lad. John was the 

 most successful Derby dog of 1 902-1 903, and this 

 season has shown all his promised speed and 

 bird work among all-age competitors. He is of 

 the older lines of blood, his sire line being 

 Graphic and his dam going back to Croxteth. 

 Alpine Lad is of the Jingo-Dot's Pearl family in 

 the second generation. In both the prairie chicken 

 and quail trials of 1903 John performed better than 

 any other pointer, and must at the moment be 

 placed at the head of his breed. 



