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Appended is a short pedigree of King Cob, which we have 

 taken from the appendix to ' Stonehenge's ' well-known work on 

 the Greyhound. Going beyond the dog himself we feel out 

 of our depth, so refrain from any comment on his ancestry. 



Reverting to the time when the Waterloo Cup was a thirty- 

 twp dog stake, this list would certainly be incomplete without 

 the addition of Cerito's pedigree, for this bitch won the stake 

 three times, and although the feat was not to be compared with 

 that of Master McGrath, when the nominations were doubled, 

 the competition keener, and the eclat more coveted, yet it must 

 be admitted that the performance was a most meritorious one. 



1 Mr. Goodlake gives Best's Turk 1822, who was by Lane Fox's Turk Lord Rivers' Fly 



Cerito in all won forty-five courses out of fifty-three, and 

 just i,ooo/. in stakes, exclusive of trophies. 



In writing the name of Misterton as a celebrity of the past 

 we almost seem guilty of an anachronism, for he has carried 

 his powers as a stud dog to a comparatively recent date ; his 

 sons and daughters are still running, and he has left plenty 

 of sterling greyhounds to carry on one of the most successful 

 strains of modern times ; and whilst such dogs as Mullingar, 

 Aberbriant, &c., are advertised at stud (with them we shall 



