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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



It can scarceh' be claimed that any single 

 individual specimen of the present day is 

 better than the best of former days ; in fact, 

 it is very questionable if we have anything 

 quite so good as Mr. Rawdon B. Lee's 

 Ch. Richmond, who was in his prime about 

 a dozen years ago and was practically un- 

 beatable. Like many others, he was one of 

 those celebrities which were bred by Mr. 

 Hartley, of Kendal, who, with :\Ir. J. 

 Poole, Mr. Cockerton, and Mr. Armstrong, 

 very ably made and maintained the reputa- 

 tion of the northern 

 shires as the principal 

 breeding-ground, par- 

 ticularly for exhibi- 

 tion type. Somewhat 

 younger, Mr. T. 

 Steadman has been 

 even more successful. 

 He has become world 

 famous for the beau- 

 tiful heads which 

 characterise liis 

 strain, a result which 

 has been brought 

 about by many years' 

 experience, and no 

 sparing of time, trou- 

 ble, or expense to 

 select and breed only 

 from such stock as 

 possessed this great 



desideratum ; the result being that of late 

 years no one has bred so many notable 

 winners, and in 1906 his Ch. ^lallwyd 

 Sarah was acknowledged to be the most 

 perfect specimen before the public. Mr. 

 Geo. Raper, though not a professed breeder, 

 has owned many excellent Setters, of which 

 Ch. Barton Tory was probably the best. 

 This dog had a chequered career in his 

 early days, being bought cheaply at the 

 dispersal of Sir H. F. de Trafford's famous 

 collection of sporting dogs by Mr. Shirley. 

 then chairman of the Kennel Club. Like 

 other cracks, Tory was not at his best 

 till he was about three years old, but he 

 improved so much during the time he 

 was in Mr. Shirley's possession that Mr. 

 Raper claimed him at his catalogue price 



MR. A. R. MULDERS 



BY MR. T. STEADMANS MALLWYD BRAGG 



MALLWYD REBECCA. 



of £100 when he made his appearance at 

 a big show in the south. Mr. H. Gunn has 

 also bred a few makers of history, among 

 which the most noteworthy was Mr. T. 

 E. Hopkin's Ch. Rumney Rock, who was 

 purchased at a very high price by another 

 well-known judge, ^Ir. C. Houlker, for whom 

 he won many specials at northern shows as 

 being the best of all breeds. Of late years 

 Mr. R. R. P. Wearing has instituted a large 

 breeding establishment at Kirkby Lonsdale, 

 and has turned out some fine specimens. 

 Other prominent pre- 

 sent - day exhibitors 

 are Mr. E. Cockill, 

 of Gomersal, near 

 Leeds; Mr. H. E. 

 Gray, of .Merthyr 

 Vale ; and Mr. R. T. 

 Baines, of Barton 

 Kennels, near Man- 

 chester. 



The English Setter 

 Club, of which Mr. 

 George Potter, of 

 Quarry Lodge, Heads 

 Nook, Carlisle, is the 

 honorary secretary, 



has done much since 

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its mstitution \n 1090 



to encourage this 

 breed of dog, and 

 has proved the use- 

 fulness of the club by providing two very 

 \-aluable trophies, the Exhibitors' Challenge 

 Cup, and the Field Trial Challenge Cup, for 

 competition amongst its members, besides 

 having liberally supported all the leading 

 shows ; hence it has rightly come to be 

 regarded as the only authority from which 

 an acceptable and official dictum for the 

 guidance of others can emanate. 



The following is the standard of points 

 issued bv the English Setter Club : 



Head. — Tlic head should be long and lean, 

 with well-defined stop. The skull oval from ear 

 to car, showing plenty of brain room, and with a 

 well-defined occipital protuberance. The muzzle 

 moderately deep and fairly square ; from the stop 

 to the point of the nose should be long, the nostrils 

 wide, and the jaws of nearly equal length ; flews 



