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trial setters of to-day trace to him in one or more 

 lines. His best son in the field and as a sire was 

 Antonio, the sire of Rodfield, Tony Boy, and a 

 number of other dogs which have no superiors in 

 pubUc esteem. 



Champion Count Gladstone IV, as were the 

 other dogs of this group, was bred almost exactly 

 like Roderigo, being by Count Noble out of a 

 Gladstone-Druid dam. He was a white-black- 

 tan dog, but nearly all white. He was even 

 worse than Roderigo in the quality of his bird 

 work in his early days, a trouble which seems to 

 have been caused partly by a period of harsh 

 treatment which he suffered when a puppy. He 

 afterward developed into the foremost field trial 

 winner of his time and succeeded Roderigo in 

 the position of the greatest sire. Late in life he 

 was purchased by a kennel in California conducted 

 under the patronage of Mrs. Senator Hearst. He 

 was equally successful in his last home. The 

 number of performers sired by this dog was phe- 

 nomenal. From Dan's Lady alone he produced 

 Champion Lady's Count Gladstone, Lady's Count, 

 Dave Earl, Count Danstone, and Albert Lang. 

 From Hester Prynne he got Sioux, Lady Rachel, 

 and Prime Minister. 



Mohawk, the latest great dog of this type, has 

 blood lines essentially the same. His sire, Tony 

 Boy, is inbred to Roderigo, and his dam, Countess 



