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previous class was mated with a poorer one. The majority having decided that 
Barton Tory was the best dog in the show, we of course voted for him and his 
better mate, only to find ourselves once more in the minority, the defeated toy 
and his inferior mate getting the most votes. Several similar experiences fol- 
lowed, and we have ever since eschewed judging specials in mixed company. 
The gems of Mr. Vandergrift’s kennel were in the excellent collection 
of bitches, including Queen’s Place Pride, Queen’s Pride, Queen’s Flora 
and one or two others. At the same time it was not all plain sailing for even 
this good kennel for Mr. G. C. Thomas, Jr., of Philadelphia, was also — 
in the ring with his Bloomfield kennels, which shortly included Mallwyd 
Sirdar, Stylish Sergeant, Dido B., Mepal’s Queen B., Pera, and others. 
Mr. Thomas was the better stayer of the two exhibitors, the Vancroft 
kennels being given up the following year. It looked lately as if Mr. Thomas 
was also preparing to go on the retired list, but fortunately it is not so, for 
at the close of 1904 he purchased from Ben Lewis his entire kennel of 
English setters and the latter will keep out of the breed, only showing for 
Mr. Thomas for a year from the date of sale. 
Mr. Barry, of Rye, is another of the standard sort, holding to his own 
course in storm and sunshine, keeping good setters to look at and good to 
shoot over, and breeding a little on lines that promise well, but no one will 
gainsay that the stick-fast-to-type is Doctor Hair, and too much credit can- 
not be given him by all who value the perpetuation of an old breed in its 
purity of type for his consistent course for so many years. 
At no time since the early eighties has prospects for the English setter 
looked more favorable than at present. Show committees are giving exhibi- 
tors better judges, and whatever fear there was of offending field trials men 
has been overcome. Even if we do occasionally have a judge who speaks 
of two types and thinks it right to put one of each in the prize list, he does 
not do it to any extent. If a man will not judge to one type, the type he 
believes to be correct, he has no business in the ring, for he is obliging some 
exhibitors at the expense of others and against what should be his immovable 
opinion and verdict. 
PEDIGREE IN Fietp Triats Docs 
There seems to be far more misconception as to which line of blood we 
are more particularly indebted to for the excellence of the dogs bred for 
