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brindled dog by young Fullerton out of Sally Milburn by Mis- 

 terton, who ran in the nomination of the late Mr. T. P. Hale, 

 and who, though he had often run most moderately elsewhere, 

 has always been seen at his best over the Altcar ground. Two 

 years before (in 1895) Gallant had survived the fourth round, 

 but had been put out in the semi-finals by Thoughtless Beauty, 

 the winner of the stake. In 1896 he had been beaten in the 

 second round by Wolf Hill, the runner-up to Fabulous For- 

 tune ; and in the same year he had run up to Reception for the 

 Waterloo Plate. Thus, after his Cup victory it could be 

 claimed for Gallant that he had won fourteen out of seventeen 

 courses at Altcar, and only succumbed to high-class greyhounds 

 when beaten. It should be added that, at the Border Union 

 Meeting of 1896, Gallant had run so badly that he could have 

 been bought for a io/. : note; but Mr. Tom Graham, who had 

 trained him originally, had not quite lost faith in him, and 

 persuaded Mr. Holmes to send him back to his old quarters at 

 Great Corby, near Carlisle. He soon began to recover his 

 form, and having divided small stakes at Kirkoswald and Bar- 

 nard Castle, he came to Liverpool considerably fancied by his 

 connections. At the same time the running hardly showed 

 Gallant to be a superior greyhound to everything else in the 

 stake, as had been the case with Fabulous Fortune in the pre- 

 vious year. Mr. Holmes's dog was twice led, and in the final 

 he had an advantage over his opponent, because he had been 

 nothing like so hard run. Throughout the stake Gallant ran 

 kindly and showed marked cleverness, and though, no doubt, 

 his speed was hardly equal to that of the average Waterloo 

 Cup winner, he was nevertheless by no means the worst 

 greyhound which has got to the end of the stake. 



Rather a curious feature of this particular Waterloo Cup 

 was that a much greater number of puppies took part in the 

 stake than is usually the case. Nor were there the average 

 number of ex-Waterlooers among the sixty-four, the entry at last 

 including only eleven who had run in 1896, and no fewer than 

 thirty-eight first season greyhounds. Amongst the eleven just 

 referred to were Fabulous Fortune and Wolf Hill, the winner 



