300 The Dog Book 
Lord Sefton and Mr. Edge, the two latter being particularly prominent 
owners in pedigrees carried well back at the time the first English stud book 
was compiled. Mr. Edge’s kennel was sold in 1845 and the blood widely 
distributed, two that Mr. Statter bought being about the best known in the 
way of pedigrees traced back to olden times. Coming a step nearer to 
the present, there were Mr. Garth’s and Mr. Whitehouse’s kennels, the 
former being the breeder of that wonderful dog Drake, which Stonehenge 
in his article on field trials dogs, quoted in the chapter on the English setter, 
placed at the head of the list of the five entitled to be considered in the 
first class. It was about this period that America came slightly into touch 
with England, but to such a limited extent that we find out of the 165 
dogs registered in the first volume of our stud book only about a dozen 
actual importations. A good many trace back to imported ancestry, but 
the vast majority “take to the woods” in two or three generations. 
Among the recorded importations of thirty years ago none is better 
known than Sensation, a grandson of Whitehouse’s Hamlet. He was 
shown abroad and registered as Don, 4963; owner Mr. R. Parr, breeder 
Mr. J. R. Humphreys, and pedigree “not on record.” Sensation’s record 
in England was not of high mark; three firsts and three seconds at some 
minor shows, four of them being Welsh fixtures, and a second at Birming- 
ham, of which a great deal was said as proving Sensation’s claim to merit, 
but it was a second in a class of two for medium-sized dogs. Backed by 
the Westminster Kennel Club as owner, and with his well-chosen name, 
Sensation became the rage, but he was a very faulty dog, and notwith- 
standing his being run after for years as a stud dog he never sired a really 
good one. It was a great misfortune that a better selection was not made, 
as the good a high-class dog would have done is incalculable. The St. 
Louis Kennel Club also got a Birmingham winner of the following year, 
the small-sized Sleaford, one of Mr. Whitehouse’s breeding, but for some 
reason this dog did not take here. Still his name crops up in quite a num- 
ber of pedigrees of good dogs. The Western club then secured two excel- 
lent dogs in Bow and Faust, and Mr. A. H. Moore, of Philadelphia, got 
Donald. With these. three dogs we must also mention the kennel of small 
pointers shown by Mr. E. Orgill, of Brooklyn; Rush and Rose, with their 
sisters Belle, Pearl and Ruby, being all nice pointers. Of this same litter 
was Beulah, who earned fame as the dam of that grand dog Beaufort, 
by Bow. The breeding of the Orgill litter was by Flake out of Lily, by 
