THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Blarney’s dam was High Legh Moment, and Shotover’s Queen of Llan- 
gollen; the latter dog, bought fairly recently by Mr Ernest Turner, has 
won several certificates of merit in the field and championships on the 
bench. Space will not admit of my mentioning all the good dogs which 
have graced either the field or the show bench, but mention must be made 
of the celebrated bitch Rust (the winner of the first open retriever trials). 
She was a liver-coloured flat -coated retriever, good looking and on the 
small side. She was whelped on June 11, 1894, and was by Tatt, a liver- 
coloured dog also. Tatt was a really good worker, and as he was by Taut, 
and his dam, Standeford Myrtle, was by Zelstone ex Standeford Trace, 
enough has been said to prove the excellence of the pedigree on the 
sire’s side; unfortunately. Belle, the dam of Rust, was never registered. 
Rust was owned by Abbot, then in the employ of Mr A. T. Williams, but 
now a Shropshire gamekeeper, and the excellence of her work has won 
the admiration of many capable judges. Nor must we omit Mr Cooke’s 
Wimpole Peter, Worsley Bess, Paul and Rocket of Riverside, all re- 
trievers of the very best type, and the last-named a brilliant worker; also 
Mr Allen Shuter’s favourite. Royal River, a big dog but an active one, 
an excellent dog in the field, and a delightful companion. 
In breeding four such champions as Darenth, Horton Rector, Sweet 
Fern, and Royal River, Mr Shuter may justly feel proud of his achieve- 
ments, and it is a fact that, with the exception of Horton Rosette, he 
has bred all the good dogs which he has owned. Then we have 
Colonel Cotes’s Pitchford Marshal, a son of Wimpole Peter, and a winner 
at field trials, Mr A. T. Williams’s Don of Gerwn, a son of old Rust, and 
later Mr Turner’s Park Darkie and Mr E. W. Blagg’s Busy Mite, all flat- 
coated retrievers of great merit in the field. Recently Mr Wigan’s Rab of 
Glendaruel and Colonel Weller’s good bitch, Meeru, have delighted on- 
lookers, and every one regretted that the long journey south prevented the 
former from contesting the championship in 1911. Meeru’s performances 
are fresh in most people’s memory, and she bears out the rule that the 
more you have a dog with you the more it will do for you. Like Rust, 
Meeru is a good-looking bitch, on the small side; she is by Welden Jet, 
who is bred straight from the existing strain of flat -coated retrievers. Her 
dam, Nell, also a flat coat, was never registered, and her pedigree cannot 
be traced. Meeru has wonderful brain power, and an excellent nose, and 
complete understanding exists between herself and her owner. She is 
evidently one of those bitches that can be trusted to do all kinds of work, 
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