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hares of this district more sound, than it was formerly, when a run 

 up a wrench or two, and a kill, formed the average Lancashire 

 course, and when a tremendously long slip was essential to produce 

 a tolerable trial. In any case it cannot be denied that the 

 Lancashire dog has been generally triumphant on his own peculiar 

 ground, and the success of ' Cerito ' alone, in having thrice won 

 the Waterloo Cup, must stamp this strain as well fitted for the 

 plains of Altcar. Since the year 1842, when public stallions were 

 first advertised,* the most successful Lancashire coursers have 

 abandoned the pure blood of ' Streamer,' f Sandy,' and e Senate,' 

 and have had recourse to extraneous sources to supply their places, 

 as in * Staymaker,' ' Cinderella,' ( Britomart,' ' War Eagle,' f Move- 

 ment,' and f Kaven,' in which the Lancashire greyhound has been 

 crossed with that of < Foremost ; ' in * Neville ' and ' St. Grodric,' in 

 which it has been united with Mr. Groodlake's ' Gracchus ; ' and in 

 6 British Lion ' and < Capacity,' &c., with ' Kentish Fire.' The 

 Wiltshire and Newmarket blood, as united in ( Czar ' and ' Forward,' 

 also produced, with the Lancashire, some first-rate stock, as in 

 6 Celeste ' and ' Saucy One.' But it is to the judicious crossing 

 practised by Mr. Borron and Mr. Campbell that we must look for 

 the breeding of the best dogs in Lancashire within the last ten 

 years. Mr. Jefferson's * Judge,' and Lord Sefton's ' Skyrocket,' 

 are, I think, the only successful stallions of pure Lancashire blood 

 which have been used between 1850 and 1860. The former 

 certainly has done excellent services, being with his brother in blood 



* In the 25th volume of the ' Racing Calendar' there is an advertisement of 

 the stallion greyhound ( Rex.' This was in the year 1826, and is, I believe, 

 the first on record. 



