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class dog of the present, yet Wyck came to England in the retinue of Charles 

 II. In addition to the beauty of the head we call attention to the shortness 

 of the shoulder, which shows that it was not a large dog, one considerably 

 smaller than our greyhounds, and that is in keeping with the fact that quality 

 generally accompanies medium size. One great difficulty breeders have to 

 overcome is the tendency to run to coarseness when size is sought for. There 

 is no indication of the Italian greyhound in the Wyck head, which may be 

 taken as being one which struck the artist as possessing what we call now- 

 adays "quality." Compared with the typical head by Cooper in the 

 Sportsman's Annual of 1839 it bears the palm as being of better finish. 



The greyhound is a dog which has never been bred for fancy nor for 

 show, even since the days of exhibiting. Such dogs as have been seen on 

 the bench in England and the best we have had here have been picked from 

 those bred for coursing and many have been winners in the field, including 

 that very handsome black bitch Lansdowne Hall Stream, which has been 

 so successful in recent years. Before she was brought here by Mr. Tilley 

 she had coursed in England with fair success. These selected show grey- 

 hounds cannot be taken as indicative of the quality of all coursing dogs, for 

 ■with them ability counts before good looks, but on the other hand there are 

 plenty of dogs fit for exhibition which their owners would never think of 

 entering at a dog show, and that few are exhibited is no reason for 

 claiming that few exist. We have had two occasions for forming an opinion 

 on this point. The first was when we judged the breed at St. Louis some 

 years ago. and had as good classes of greyhounds before us as one could wish 

 to see. On that occasion we gave the special to a dog which had been very 

 successful at the coursing meetings which were at that time permitted to be 

 held there. Among the defeated was the prominent show circuit dog for 

 the preceding year. Again at Denver in 1903 the classes were made up of 

 dogs that had coursed successfully and the entire entry was of marked excel- 

 lence, most of the dogs belonging to those well-known coursers the Battel 

 brothers. 



The object of coursing was originally to catch the hare and not a ques- 

 tion of relative ability, and the dogs were not confined to a brace. Turber- 

 ville shows that the comity of sport was progressing when he drew attention 

 to the increasing practice of the more sportsmanlike restriction of the dogs 

 to a brace in place of a team of three, but men who wanted to get the hare, 

 pothunters as we call them, continued to use dogs sufficient to attain their 



