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King Lear^ the winner of the first 64-dog Waterloo 

 Cup. 



Jockos principal comments on Scotland Yet seem 

 to be confined to an entry on our notes, that " she 

 ivas varrafast and of a varr a jumping sort ; Ah ! she 

 ivas a grand bitch,'' In the slips she looked one net- 

 work of veins, and all her litters have inherited her 

 beautiful skin. She was beaten in her first course at 

 Biggar, but she afterwards ran up in a 64-dog stake at 

 the Caledonian meeting, to Mr. John Jardine's Baron, 

 and won the Caledonian Cup ; and she seemed to 

 excite quite a furore among the Scottish division, 

 when she did so well at the Waterloo of ^54. We 

 were not there the next j^ear, when she ran up to 

 Judge for the cup, but Mr. Campbell still declares 

 that it was "Noe course avar,^' as the hare only- 

 weighed 4 lbs. Mr. Nightingale says of this course : 

 " She killed her hare too soon. Judge went a tre- 

 mendous pace, and went round and turned his hare 

 to the bitch, who killed before she could get into 

 good solid work, which was her great forte.^^ Bar- 

 ring her colour, which was pure white, she was to 

 Mr. CampbelPs eye more like her daughter Cooda- 

 reena than anything he has had in his kennel. Her 

 light was nearly quenched before she became a 

 brood bitch : as she was seized with dropsy or some 

 such ailment, and became such a swollen object about 

 the head more especially, that she was within an ace 

 of being put away like her brother. However, Mr. 

 Campbell tucked up his sleeves, and summoning the 



