114 The Sporting Dog 



Davenport, Iowa. Since then it has regularly 

 been held in enclosures, the best and most suc- 

 cessful one having been at Delmar Park, St. 

 Louis, in the fall of 1902. This stake brought 

 picked dogs from Texas, California, Montana, 

 Iowa, Colorado, and Kansas. The judge, Mr. John 

 Grace, and the slipper, his son, Mr. James Grace, 

 were both brought from San Francisco to con- 

 duct the running. The winner was the California 

 dog, Roman Athlete; the runner-up, Tiburon, 

 was owned in St. Louis, but was of California 

 birth and training. This stake contained the full 

 complement of sixty-four dogs. It may be said 

 to have brought out practically all of the best in 

 training anywhere in the country. In 1903, the 

 American Waterloo was taken to Oklahoma City. 

 The winner was again a Californian, nominated 

 but not owned by Mr. Rosseter, named Rubber 

 Ankles. Rubber Ankles is by imported Fortuna 

 Favente, brother to Fabulous Fortune and him- 

 self runner-up to Thoughtless Beauty, the English 

 Waterloo winner of 1896. Yours Truly, from 

 Colorado, was the runner-up. The American 

 Derby, at the same meet, was won by Tatlah, 

 owned by Mr. McDougall of Butte, Montana. 

 Tatlah is by Crawford Lad, and from a dam of 

 American stock. The Futurity winner. Path- 

 finder, is by the Lowe dog, St. Clair. So breeding 

 honors are still rather to the credit of the old 



