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in England. Newton's Ranger was another of the early per- 

 formers, and he was very staunch and brilliant, but it was in 

 the next five years that the most extraordinary Pointer merit 

 was seen, as quite incomparable was Sir Richard Garth's 

 Drake, who was just five generations from the Spanish Pointer. 

 Drake was rather a tall, gaunt dog, but with immense depth 

 of girth, long shoulders, long haunches, and a benevolent, 

 quiet countenance. There was nothing very attractive about 

 him when walking about at Stafford prior to his trial, but the 

 moment he was down he seemed to paralyse his opponent, 

 as he went half as fast again. It was calculated that he went 

 fifty miles an hour, and at this tremendous pace he would stop 

 as if petrified, and the momentum would cover him with earth 

 and dust. He did not seem capable of making a mistake, 

 and his birds were always at about the same distance from 

 him, to show thereby his extraordinary nose and confidence. 

 Nothing in his day could beat him in a field. He got some 

 good stock, but they were not generally show form, the bitches 

 by him being mostly light and small, and his sons a bit high 

 on the leg. None of them had his pace, but some were capital 

 performers, such as Sir Thomas Lennard's Mallard, Mr. 

 George Pilkington's Tory, Mr. Lloyd Price's Luck of Edenhall, 

 winner of the Field Trial Derby, 1878 ; Lord Downe's Mars 

 and Bounce, and Mr. Barclay Field's Riot. When Sir Richard 

 Garth went to India and sold his kennel of Pointers at Tatter- 

 sail's, Mr. Lloyd Price gave 150 guineas for Drake. 



The mid-century owners and breeders had probably all the 

 advantages of what a past generation had done, as there were 

 certainly many wonderful Pointers in the 'fifties, 'sixties, and 

 'seventies, as old men living to-day will freely allow. They 

 were produced very regularly, too, in a marvellous type of 

 perfection. 



Mr. William Arkwright, of Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire, 



has probably the best kennel in England at the present time. 



He discovered and revived an old breed of the North of England 



that was black, and bred for a great many years by Mr. Pape, 



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