S68 The Dog Book 



of F. C. Phoebus, who was one of our earliest professional dog showers, and 

 for him he again won in the champion class at New York in 1891. To re- 

 place Mr. Stevenson we had the combination of Mr. Taunton of England 

 and Mr. Winchell of Vermont, Mr. Taunton sending over his good dog Beau- 

 fort as the star of the partnership kennel. Beaufort won in the open class 

 at New York in 1890, beating Ilford Chancellor, who was a greatly im- 

 proved dog from what he had been when at the Winlawn Kennels. Mr. C. 

 C. Marshall in a report to the Kennel Gazette stated that Beaufort was a 

 much better mastiff than Minting had been, for he was dead then : in fact, 

 he made him out to be the grandest mastiff he had ever seen. Strange to 

 say, however, when the two dogs came under the same judge a year later 

 Chancellor won, and Beaufort was put back to third place, Mrs. Wallack's 

 Merlin splitting the pair. Judges' official reports had then been given up 

 so we have not the opportunity of knowing the wherefore of this change of 

 opinion. Ilford Chancellor had by this time been purchased by the Flour 

 City Kennels of Rochester, which also won first in the bitch class with Lady 

 Dorothy. Some more of Mr. Moore's dogs were also in this kennel, the 

 Melrose exhibitor having given up the hard work of dog showing soon after 

 he lost Minting. 



Beaufort was sent back to England and in his place Mr. Winchell had 

 his son, Beaufort's Black Prince, the best mastiff we had so far bred in this 

 country, take him all in all. With him he won first in the open class in 1892, 

 and the following year took first in the challenge class. Mr. Wade, whose 

 fancy for mastiffs leant more to the longer-faced dogs than to the fashion- 

 able type, somewhat astonished the fancy by getting hold of that extra good 

 bitch. Lady Coleus, who had been an extensive winner, and with her he took 

 first in challenge class. We think he had only once before been an exhibitor 

 at New York, when in 1883 Tiny, a far different type from Lady Coleus, 

 won first in the open class. 



In 1893 we find for the first time the name of Dr. Lougest of Boston as 

 an exhibitor of mastiffs, and although he had little success that year it fell 

 on his shoulders only a few years later to bear the load of upholding the Eng- 

 lish mastiff, which had been deserted by all its old supporters and had gained 

 no new and staunch friends. It was the beginning of the end when Dr. 

 Lougest took up the breed, for although Mr. Winchell held on while he had 

 Beaufort's Black Prince, that was not for long, and in 1898 he had but one 

 entry while ten of the total of the nineteen dogs entered in 1898 were from 



