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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edcouple with Ringwood and Heedless, bothbeauties by sires from well-known kennels.Ringwood is by the Halstead Place Forager,and the other by Pettings Bellman. Mrs. Prices kennel must be one of veryhigh quality, as that lady showed some 230 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. that could scarcely be surpassed in houndpoints and beauty, but merit at the Peter-borough Show of 1906 was so great as tomake it very difficult to get first prizes.So one saw the Trinity Foot beating Mrs.Prices in an unentered class, and therewas no beating the Halstead Place for thebest couple of bitches—Chorus and Rachelgetting a first, perhaps pretty easily. Rachel, Palace Cup as the best Beagle in the show,and with his kennel companions helped totake the cup for the best three couples.Mrs. Price showed successfully an oldfavourite, Fulmen, in the single dog class,but he is a well-known champion. Sir F.FitzWygram won with Dorothy againstnineteen competitors, and one that caughtthe attention of everyone was a beautiful
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GROUP OF THE MARQUIS OF LINLITHGOWS BEAGLES.Photograph by C. Rcid, Wishaw. who was bred by the Chauston, also got thechampion cup as the best bitch in the show- The Surbiton, of which Mr. A. G. AllenTurner is the master, must be very goodto have got second in the open class herewith Passion and Nimble. It was a greatshow for the Presidents Cup, for the bestthree couples, and here again the HalsteadPlace came out first with Searcher andStatesman (brothers), Ranter and Rachel(brother and sister), and Chorus and Cobnut.The three couples might have been takenas the exact type of what Beagles ought tobe. The show at the Crystal Palace wasthought even better than at Peterborough,as there were no fewer than nineteen packsentered. The Halstead Searcher was. asusual, to the fore, as he took the Crystal little lemon pied bitch called Primrose,exhibited by Mr. E. F. Goff, the master ofthe Wooddale, this little lady coming out firstin her class. To make the competition allthe stronger at the Crys

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