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5 TA G-HUXTLYG RECOLLECTIONS 



appeared in Daniels' ' Kural Sports ' of one of his own 

 breeding named Merkin speak true. There is nothing 

 to choose between the Colonel's Merkin ; Luxury, a crack 

 hound in the Koyal kennel in Davis's best period, and which 



^ 



Luxury 



he considered faultless ; ' and Roman and Ehetoric, a dog 

 and a bitch now in the Ascot kennel.^ 



' Charles Davis in a letter to the ' Sporting Review ' in 1841 wrote : 

 ' Luxury is now six years old. and was bred by me : she is twenty-three inches 

 high, and I consider her in every respect perfect ; her sire was the royal hound 

 liightning ; her dam, the Duke of Rutland's Syren. Lightning was descended 

 from the blood of the late Duke of Richmond, which I consider the stoutest 

 of any in England. Syren's Belvoir blood is sufficient guarantee for its ex- 

 cellence 



■^ Roman is by Warwickshire Rhymer out of Lord Leconfield's Rosemary ; 

 Rhetoric, by Roman out of Ruby. 



