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He was out of a Gladstone-bitch and when bred back to the Gladstone bitch 
Gem threw the litter in which were Gath’s Mark and Gath’s Hope. This 
line has not been so successful of late as have others, however. Roderigo 
was a most successful son of Count Noble. He also was out of a Gladstone 
bitch, and we have from him a number of lines, prominent among them 
being Antonio, from whom we had Rodfield, Tony Boy and Tony Gale, and 
there is little prospect at present of losing tracings to Antonio and Roderigo 
in the best dogs at the field trials. Count Gladstone IV. is bred like Roder- 
igo, and he was another most successful sire, his son, Lady’s Count Glad- 
stone, being the phenomenal sire of 1904 in field trial records, no less than 
fourteen placed dogs being by him, while second to him come Count 
Danstone, his litter brother, and Rodfield, each with four to his credit 
during the year. 
While Count Noble was purely Dan-Laverack, he had an extra infusion 
of Laverack blood through his sire Count Wind’em, who was by the Dan- 
Laverack dog Count Dick, out of the pure Laverack Phantom, a sister to 
Petrel, dam of Gladstone. This makes the Count Noble and Gladstone 
cross very close in-breeding, for in the pedigree of Count Noble we have 
Count Dick, already mentioned, by Dan out of Countess, and Nora, the 
dam, was by Dan out of Nellie, sister to Countess. Then Phantom and 
Peeress the other two bitches in the pedigree are, as already stated, full 
sisters. 
Again we have the dam of Lady’s Count Gladstone and Count Dan- 
stone, in-bred also. This was Dan’s Lady, by Dan Gladstone, son of 
Gladstone out of the Druid bitch Sue; and Lady’s dam by Gath’s Mark, by 
Gath out of Gem, both with a Gladstone cross. In Dan’s Lady we have 
a cross of Dash III., a dog that is not Llewellyn according to any reasonable 
interpretation of what that word may mean. He was bred by John Arm- 
strong, and was by a Laverack dog out of Old Kate, who was by another 
Laverack out of the pedigreeless E. Armstrong’s Kate. Dash III. became 
quite prominent in pedigrees of noted performers, and it behooved the 
promoters of the “Llewellyns” to do something to keep the winners within 
their fold, so they decided to extend the pale and admit the pedigreeless 
Kate as worthy of becoming a progenitor of the commercial breed. This 
was no novelty for a similar thing was done in the case of Dash IT. and Sam, 
dogs introduced into Mr. Llewellyn’s kennels as out-crosses; something he 
was always practising, and as soon as it became evident that breeders were 
