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myself select a brood bitch possessing one or other of these 

 fashionable names in their pedigrees, but taking especial care that 

 the other names coupled with them should belong to animals of 

 stout, honest, and good-working blood. 



If the produce are intended for Altcar and Lytham alone, or 

 indeed for any north country coursing, there are several strains 

 which will perhaps succeed even better than the descendants of 

 ' King Cob.' Among these I may mention ( Judge,' ( Skyrocket,' 

 (the latter being almost as well suited to the south as the 

 descendants of 'King Cob,') ( Canaradzo ' (combining Mr. Borron's 

 'Blue Bugle' blood with the extreme cleverness of ' Wigan's' stock) ; 

 ( Beacon' and ( Black Cloud' (two brothers bred by Mr. Borron and 

 almost equally successful at the stud, though the former has 

 certainly the advantage in having got two Waterloo Cup winners, 

 in f Canaradzo ' and 6 Eoaring Meg,' besides another through 

 Canaradzo, in ' King Death '), the descendants of ( Jason,' through 

 4 Vraye Foy,' ( Egypt,' and ' Lopez,' and of s Larriston ' through 

 ' Effort.' < The Brewer ' and ' Woodman ' have also done well in 

 the south, and the young courser who can obtain a brood bitch by 

 any one of the above dogs, combined with other strains equally 

 good, may consider himself extremely lucky. In the north, 

 4 Jacobite,' combining the blood of e Judge ' and 'Bedlamite,' has 

 been justly successful, but though his sons ' Cardinal York ' and 

 ' Picton ' have got some greyhounds above the average, I have as 

 yet seen nothing very striking by them. Since the ( Beacon ' and 

 ' Black Cloud ' litter, no greyhound much above the average has 

 appeared from the Ardrossan kennel, but such is the luck of the 



