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owned, a dog he did not breed, a dog whose ancestors he never owned nor 
bred, was according to Messrs. Buckell and Llewellyn, a Llewellyn setter. 
Rock, a field trial winner in England, bred by Mr. Garth, out of Daisy by 
Field’s Bruce, was also a Llewellyn. setter, according to Mr. Llewelyln’s 
classification. Belton, the sire of Mr. Sanborn’s crack field. trial winner 
Nellie, was monopolised as a Llewellyn, yet he was bred by Mr. Thomas 
Statter, out of Daisy (not Llewellyn’s), by Sykes’s Dash, a Laverack setter. 
Mr.Brewis’s celebrated Dash II., by Mr. Laverack’s Blue Prince out of Mr. 
John Armstrong’s Old Kate, is by Mr. Llewellyn claimed as his breed. 
His excellent brother Dash III. is also, according to Messrs. Buckell and 
Llewellyn, a Llewellyn setter; and we might go on at great length and 
show a long list of dogs, bred by others, from dogs not bred or owned by 
Mr. Llewellyn,'which that gentleman claims as his breed, without a particle 
of reason. 
“Had Mr. Llewellyn originated the Duke-Rhcebe-Laverack cross 
he might have some claim on the whole strain, but the cross was made, and 
its excellence proven before he owned any of them. Nor is Mr. Llewellyn 
entitled to any special recognition for having continued to breed these 
dogs exclusively, for they have been bred in England and in this country 
by others, during the whole time he has been breeding them. 
“Has Mr. Llewellyn done all that it is claimed he has, and are all 
these dogs, whose performances go to swell the ‘Llewellyn record’ his dogs? 
Most assuredly not. He has no more right to their record than we have. 
What Mr. Laverack, Mr. Statter, Mr. Garth, Mr. Armstrong and others 
have done in England with their dogs, they, and not Mr. Llewellyn, are 
entitled to credit for. And what Mr. Smith, the Messrs. Bryson, Mr. 
Adams, Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Bergundthal, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Dew and many 
others have done in this country, they, and not Mr. Llewellyn, are entitled 
to credit for.’—American Field, January 19, 1884. 
Replying to a Canadian correspondent in the American Field of 
February 9, 1884, Doctor Rowe writes: ‘“‘Dominion’s assumptions, when 
brought face to:face with facts, furnish striking evidence of the length and 
breadth of the claims of Mr. Llewellyn and his followers. Every dog that 
is of any consequence as a field trials performer gets to be a Llewellyn 
setter. A little investigation through the great mass of ‘Llewellyn setter’ 
assumption brings us to a very few commonplace facts.” 
When Mr. L. H. Smith, in the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, 
