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and require a great deal of finding, and the walking is arduous, can find 
no better dog for the purpose than a properly trained and staunch red 
setter. Such a dog will work hard all day and not give up in disgust about 
noon because he has failed to locate more than an old bird or two. I shall 
never forget that big strong dog Wrestler that ran in the Irish Trials of 1891. 
Each morning he followed, or rather preceded the cars during the long 
ten miles drive to the moors, on his way racing over the fields and enclosures, 
and indeed doing an ordinary day’s work before the trials commenced, 
and when he did run his first heat he was even then too wild. No Laverack 
or Gordon setter would have been allowed to do this, and it must have 
proved too much even for those untiring liver and white little dogs to which 
allusion has previously been made in the article on English setters.’ Wrestler, 
although defeated in the Grand All-Ages Stakes by the famous English 
setter Fred at the English Trials of 1891, won the prize for second best of 
any breed, and later on had his revenge by defeating Fred, among others, 
and winning outright the International All-Ages Stakes at the Irish 
Grouse Trials. 
“To come nearer home, we have that well known artist-sportsman, the 
late J. M. Tracy, in his article on setters and pointers in ‘Shooting on Upland, 
Marsh and Stream’: ‘The very best field dog I ever saw was an Irish 
setter. For those who shoot a great deal, and work the same dog on a 
great variety of game, there is no dog like a good Irish setter.’ 
“Ts it not strange in view of what has been done abroad and the good 
opinions so many hold in this country that the Irish setter has not been 
more conspicuous in our field trials, and stranger still that he has absolutely 
disappeared from public competition. But before condemning the breed 
in its entirety on that account it is well to remember that there are probably 
one hundred English setters and pointers bred in this country to one Irish 
setter, and that the proportion of dollars spent is still greater. Given any- 
thing like an even chance, such as there is to be obtained abroad and has been 
at some trials in this country in former years, the Irish setter has generally 
rendered an account of himself that lovers of the breed have felt proud of. 
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“That we have imported some of the very best blood cannot be denied, 
but something beyond that is necessary to bring them to the front in this 
country. The records prove that they can win if properly selected, trained 
