Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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litterwas later known to the fancy as ChampionRodney Stone, and had the distinctionof being the first Bulldog to be sold for£1,000. He was purchased by Mr. R.Croker, of New York. Rodney Stonehad, together with his son Buckstone, theremarkable property of stamping his ex-pression and body properties on resultingprogeny to several generations. The writer THE BULLDOG. 43 has frequently recognised the wide front,the distinctive appearance of the eyes, andthe turned-up under jaw in dogs of the thirdgeneration who have only claimed RodneyStone once as a sire in their pedigree. The following prize-winning dogs are alldescended from Champion Rodney Stone,and the list comprises some of the best dogs of the present day: Champion RegalStone, Buckstone, True Type, Lodestone,Stolid Joe, Comely Maid, Champion Park-holme Crib, Stonecrop, Champion ThackerayPrimstone, Rosewarne Grabber, RhodaStone, Royal Stone, Lucy Stone, BuxomStone, John Campbell, Champion RufusStone, Lady Albertstone, and Champion
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THE CELEBRATED ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CH. RODNEY STONEBY JOHN OF THE FUNNELS —LUCY LOO.BRED BY MR. WALTER JEFFERIES.Photograph by T. Reveley, Wantage. 44 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. Beowulf. Other equally famous dogs ofthis strain are Rex Stone, British Stone,and Dick Stone, but they have never beenexhibited on the show bench. All thesedogs have good wide fronts, small ears,long square skulls with plenty of cushion,and good turn-up of underjaw. The bodiesas a rule are good, but in some specimensthere is a tendency to sink the first ribbehind the shoulder. Among other good dogs well known inthe prize ring, but which, owing to out-crosses or being descended from some ofthe contemporaries of Champion Crib, arenot properly belonging to the foregoingstrains, are Champion Ivel Doctor, whosired the present-day winners, ChampionsNuthurst Doctor and Hampshire Lily ;Bapton Monarch, by Avenger, who siredChampion Woodcote Chinosol ; ChampionBromley Crib, who sired Swashbuckler—apresent-day pillar

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