Early History of the Breed 
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sides, while his granddams were both of the Wuer- 
temberg working strain. This shows that the 
breeders were carefully using a strong and intelligent 
outcross with their line breeding to typy dogs. Beo- 
wolf transmitted his own individuality to such an 
extent that his progeny is called the Beowolf strain; 
his good qualities were more apparent, however, 
on the female rather than the male side of his line. 
The next dog in the list of important sires was 
Dewet Barbarossa, whose line traces back on one 
side to Horand and on the other to Luchs von Spar- 
wasser, a little brother of Horand, and here again we 
also find in his pedigree a judicious mixture of work¬ 
ing blood. A striking proof of the potency of this 
blood is shown in the mating of Dewet to his daugh¬ 
ter, the 1902 and 1903 Champion, Hella von Men- 
ningen. The result was Siegfried vom Jena Para- 
dies who was the working Champion of 1906 as a 
War Dog, Police Dog and Red Cross Dog. 
Following in importance in the list of sires was 
Graf Eberhard von Hohen-Esp, perhaps the most 
intense of the latter-day Horand dogs, having Ho¬ 
rand as his grandsire on both sides of his dam’s 
breeding and four times as great grandsire on his 
sire’s side. He also proved a splendid nick 011 the 
Wuertemberg utility strain. 
It will be noticed that none of these sires had ac¬ 
quired championships, as the success of most of them 
was indifferent in the show ring. By this time, how¬ 
ever, the breed was becoming strongly intrenched in 
type, and from this period the producing dogs were 
all more or less of the pronounced show type. Graf 
