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deciding course Falconer again led, and ran straight into a 

 weak hare ; and here it may be remarked that Follow Faster 

 was the unlucky greyhound of the stake. On the first day she 

 ran a terribly long trial against Little Robin, and on the Friday 

 she had an undecided, won two courses well; and then had a 

 long single-handed with a fresh hare ; so that she was really 

 running her sixth course when she made the undecided with 

 Falconer. We have now brought the winner and runner up 

 down to the final course, in which Falconer was generally 

 expected to lead. To the great surprise Texture had a shade 

 the best of the speed, and reaching the hare about her own 

 length clear, she came round in possession and scored twice 

 again before Falconer got in. The last named was busy for 

 two or three points, but Texture was not to be denied, and 

 with the best of the exchanges to her credit, she then drove 

 her hare out, moved her two or three times, and flecked her 

 strongly, bringing up Falconer, who gave puss her death-stroke. 

 It was a clear win for Count Stroganoff' s bitch ; but it should 

 be mentioned that some of the crowd (those on the lane side) 

 were of opinion that Falconer had won, this being due to their 

 difference in position. 



Texture was bred in Northumberland, by the Messrs. 

 Thompson of High Thorneyburn, and was by Herschel out of 

 Tinsel by Jester (son of Ptarmigan and Gallant Foe, but of a 

 later litter than that which included Princess Dagmar, Paris, 

 &c.). She (Texture) as a puppy first ran at the Upper Niths- 

 dale meeting, where she divided a sixteen-dog stake with three 

 others. She was unluckily beaten in the first round of the 

 Champion Puppy stakes at Newmarket, but, as a puppy, won 

 three courses in the Waterloo Cup, before being put out by 

 FitzFife, the runner up to Fullerton in 1892. Some time 

 after this performance Texture was sold by the Messrs. 

 Thompson to Mr. H. Fenning, and for her new owner she 

 won four courses in the Waterloo Cup of 1893, going down 

 before Button Park in the semi-final, after having been very hard 

 run. She next ran in the Netherby Cup, in which she won two 



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