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by Gone, by Strange Idea — Gaudy Poll, and his dam was Ruby 

 (sister to Rota), a most remarkable bitch, as she was not only 

 a fine performer, but as a matron she threw such first-class 

 performers, besides Cui Bono, as Rhodora, Romney, Rufina, 

 Rufus, Radiant (dam of Fluttering Fersen and Happy Omen), 

 Hector, Edwina Balfe, &c. 



Calix and Clamor are both by Cui Bono, and though 

 neither is free from Canaradzo blood, the strain that they have 

 will prove beneficial, even with bitches that are inbred thereto. 

 A dog that possesses this blood already fused with that of 

 Greentick is Edwin Greentick, and as he combines two 

 crosses of Bab-at-the-Bowster and one each of Bed of Stone, 

 Ruby and Rebe, he may be considered one of the best-bred 

 dogs of the day, and should not want for patronage. We are 

 under the impression that he never ran, having met with an 

 accident when in training ; his dam was that flying bitch Edwina 

 Balfe, own sister to Hector. 



Of course there are numerous high-class dogs worthy the 

 attention of breeders of to-day, and in making the foregoing 

 remarks we have but indicated certain strains that we opine 

 should never be lost sight of, and have pointed out a few of the 

 choicest dogs available for carrying out the theory we uphold. 

 Before touching on the practical procedure of greyhound 

 breeding, we must not omit to mention a noticeable failing, and 

 a very serious one, to be observed in the produce of Greentick. 

 For the time he has been at the stud this dog has sired more 

 winners than any greyhound that preceded him, and the number 

 of sons and daughters which he has had running for him in 

 i8go was something remarkable. His puppies kept winning 

 good stakes ; but his second-season produce, with a few notable 

 exceptions, trained off to an extraordinary extent. Troughend is 

 an example of this, and a score of others could be mentioned; 

 the one marked exception that proves the rule being the 

 mighty FuUerton, who, good as he was as a puppy, went to 

 slips for his second Waterloo Cup a better greyhound in every 

 respect. We do not think that a search through Greentick's 



