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often successful. 'Jacobite,' likewise, though winning the Altcar 

 produce stake in good style, was like ' Figaro,' an extremely wide 

 worker, yet many of his stock have been remarkable for the opposite 

 quality. On the other hand, ' Tyrant,' ' Senate,' * ( Sefton,' and 

 ' Oliver Twist '* had just tact enough as runners, in which capacity 

 they were very superior to ' Foremost ' or ' King Cob,' but unfortu- 

 nately they have transmitted rather too much of it to many of 

 their descendants. 



But something more yet is required than attention to the form 

 of the individuals implicated. Every greyhound, whether dog or 

 bitch, must be considered as a compound animal, made up of a 

 sire and dam, also of two grandsires and granddams; and sometimes 

 even the four great-grandsires and great-granddams must be taken 

 into account. This is only necessary when there has been much 

 cross-breeding, for in those cases where the same blood has been 

 bred ' in and in ' this principle does not apply. But in all dogs 

 bred from different strains, if those strains are remarkable for 

 opposite qualities, you are as likely to get the one extreme as the 

 other. For instance, suppose you put a bitch to a dog got by a 

 racing sire out of a little short-working dam, then, granting that 

 the sire and dam were types of their families, and not exceptional 

 cases, you are just as likely to breed a litter like the granddam as 

 the grandsire, or perhaps more so, since I am inclined to believe 

 that the dams and granddams have more influence on the produce 

 than the sires and grandsires. But much would depend upon the 

 form and blood of the bitch, since she would be most likely to 



* For Pedigree, see Appendix (< Sefton'), and Thacker, vol. vii. 



