Later History 
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McAleer also began to be heard from. Since that 
time he has been one of the very active participants 
at all of the principal trials. Summers’ Sailor won 
the Futurity stake of the National trials in 1897. 
This dog was a son of Sailor and Summers’ Fly 
and became a very important factor in the breeding 
of working beagles thereafter for he was used by 
practical breeders. 
James McAleer, it may be stated here, secured 
the blood which D. F. Summers brought before the 
public and continued along those lines founding a 
strain called the “Tippecanoe," which became 
famous in field trials and this blood, even at the 
present day, is much sought after by beaglers look¬ 
ing for real working types. 
In 1900, Mr. Wharton took over the Kernochan 
Beagles which, under the name of Hempstead 
Beagles, won considerably at eastern trials and 
bench shows. I have already made note of some 
of the dogs and bitches in this pack, but the two 
most noted stud dogs were imported Bronwydd Boy 
and imported Florist, the latter being the greater 
infiuence upon the field beagles of the East. As they 
were offered at stud at the high fee of $100 each, 
which for a beagle is all out of proportion in com¬ 
parison with other noted dogs of the breed, it may 
be taken for granted that the small breeders found 
it practically impossible to avail themselves of the 
services of these two dogs. 
Among other high priced stud dogs were those 
of the Windholme Beagles, owned by H. L. Peters, 
whose (bench) Champion Windholme’s Robino II 
and (bench) Champion Windholme’s Robino III, 
