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Roughly speaking, here are the lines of the great sires of that 

 time : Canaradzo, Judge, Cardinal York, David. 



Contango represents the lines of Canaradzo and Cardinal 

 York ; the dams of Misterton and Greentick (his son and 

 grandson) furnish those of Judge and David. These two, the 

 great sires of modern days, will be seen to be of almost the 

 same blood ; and are worthy of the greatest sires in their several 

 generations. 



Several strains of Mocking Bird and her sisters are to be 

 found in both ; Greentick boasts also the names of Cerito, 

 Racketty Hoppicker, Riot and Prizeflower in his ancestry. 

 Some hold that the excellerice of the greyhound comes more 

 from the dam, and some believe that he will prove the greatest 

 sire of all time. With these great names in addition to the 

 others, ' Is it folly that we hope it may be so ? ' 



In some sort of way, the above account, as it may well be 

 termed, of these two champion sires furnishes us with an answer 

 as to the most successful sires of the last thirty years. 



Bugle, Bluelight, Beacon, Canaradzo, King Death, Judge, 

 Senate, David, Sam, Figaro, Bedlamite, Cardinal York, have 

 made their mark among the sires of old ; while Cashier, his son 

 Contango, his grandson Ptarmigan, and the produce of the last 

 from Gallant Foe, Jester, Peter, and Paris are among the best 

 of later days. Bedfellow, a son, and Macpherson, a grandson, 

 of Contango have much the same blood. 



Cauld Kail has the addition of some very good lines, 

 notably of Barrator, by many thought to have been the very 

 best, certainly the most wonderful dog of his day ; of Jardine's 

 Ladylike, and of Lord Eglinton's Waterloo, the champion of 

 his day. 



Patent was of the same blood as the great-granddam of 

 Greentick, and was great-grandsire of Gallant Foe ; but with 

 these exceptions, neither h^ nor Clyto, who shares most of his 

 lines with Greentick, will be found in the pedigrees of the day 

 as often as their success in the first generation seemed to 

 promise. 



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