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CHAPTER II 



A TREATISE ON BREEDING 



IN giving Misterton a place amongst greyhounds of the past, 

 we must use him as a connecting link with the dogs of the 

 day, as his blood is intimately intermingled with the running 

 strains, and his puppies were so recently running with success. 

 Later on we shall give a table of this remarkable dog's 

 winning progeny, together with those of Macpherson and 

 Greentick, the former of whom predeceased Misterton ; but 

 the latter still flourishes and adds laurels to his crown as a sire 

 as surely as the seasons come round. Now, as a basis for 

 breeding winners, we should take these three dogs as primary 

 sires, representing as they do a long line of highly successful 

 ancestors, and on them we should ring the changes and em- 

 body the Glendyne and Clyto family. An indiscriminate use 

 of these dogs or their representatives would, of course, be futile, 

 and due regard must be had to size, constitution, tempera- 

 ment, faulty points, points of excellence and other details that 

 command a breeder's closest attention ; but when once a suc- 

 cessful ' nick ' has been discovered, it should be closely adhered 

 to, if not on identical, at any rate on similar, that is to say col- 

 lateral, lines ; such, for example, as the union of Beacon with 

 Scotland Yet, one to which we shall have to make frequent 

 reference in a subsequent chapter, which produced Canaradzo, 

 Sea Foam, Sea Pink, Cioloja, Bugle, and through them a host 

 of high-class winners. In recent times we have good examples 

 in the produce of Misterton and Lady Lizzie, Misterton and 

 Gulnare II. (which includes Mullingar, Habeas Corpus, Ayala, 



