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more to the present than the past. Macpherson was a good 

 greyhound, and won the Waterloo purse in Snowflight's year 

 (1882), but it is as a sire that his name will live, and the names 

 of Herschel, Greater Scot, Happy Rondelle, Rhoda Macpherson, 

 Jock Macpherson, Lance Macpherson, and a host of others 

 are a credit to any dog. In the chapter on theoretical breeding 

 we have taken occasion to allude to him as one of the greatest 

 pillars of the ' Stud Book,' and the representative of a strain 

 that must never be lost sight of. His sire, Master Sam, 

 was a son of Contango and one of the speediest greyhounds 

 ever slipped, but a bad killer. The descendants of Macpherson 

 are usually very fast, but they likewise display sterling clever- 

 ness, a fact borne out by the running of Happy Rondelle who 

 when at her best was a gem of the first water Herschel, one 

 of the best greyhounds of all time, and Greater Scot. 



In siring the two last named Macpherson shares with 

 Greentick the honour of having begotten co-dividers of the 

 Waterloo Cup. 



By glancing at the appended pedigree it will be seen that 

 the excellence of the strain is the combination of the Contango 

 and Judge blood, the latter derived through Fusilier, sire of 

 Annie Macpherson. 



