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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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It
was
nearing
the
end
of
this
period
that
field
trials
began
to
occupy
the
attention
of
breeders
and
sportsmen,
and
although
Setters
had
been
getting
into
equal
repute
for
the
beauty
of
their
work,
there
was
something
more
brilliant
about
the
Pointers
at
first.
Brockton's
Bounce
was
a
magnificent
dog,
a
winner
on
the
show
bench,
and
of
the
first
Field
Trial
in
England.
Newton's
Ranger
was
another
of
the
early
performers,
and
he
was
very
staunch
and
brilliant,
but
it
was
in
the
next
five
years
that
the
most
extraordinary
Pointer
merit
was
seen,
as
quite
incomparable
was
Sir
Richard
Garth's
Drake,
who
was
just
five
generations
from
the
Spanish
Pointer.
Drake
was
rather
a
tall,
gaunt
dog,
but
with
immense
depth
of
girth,
long
shoulders,
long
haunches,
and
a
benevolent,
quiet
countenance.
There
was
nothing
very
attractive
about
him
when
walking
about
at
Stafford
prior
to
his
trial,
but
the
moment
he
was
down
he
seemed
to
paralyse
his
opponent,
as
he
went
half
as
fast
again.
It
was
calculated
that
he
went
fifty
miles
an
hour,
and
at
this
tremendous
pace
he
would
stop
as
if
petrified,
and
the
momentum
would
cover
him
with
earth
and
dust.
He
did
not
seem
capable
of
making
a
mistake,
and
his
birds
were
always
at
about
the
same
distance
from
him,
to
show
thereby
his
extraordinary
nose
and
confidence.
Nothing
in
his
day
could
beat
him
in
a
field.
He
got
some
good
stock,
but
they
were
not
generally
show
form,
the
bitches
by
him
being
mostly
light
and
small,
and
his
sons
a
bit
high
on
the
leg.
None
of
them
had
his
pace,
but
some
were
capital
performers,
such
as
Sir
Thomas
Lennard's
Mallard,
Mr.
George
Pilkington's
Tory,
Mr.
Lloyd
Price's
Luck
of
Edenhall,
winner
of
the
Field
Trial
Derby,
1878;
Lord
Downe's
Mars
and
Bounce,
and
Mr.
Barclay
Field's
Riot.
When
Sir
Richard
Garth
went
to
India
and
sold
his
kennel
of
Pointers
at
Tattersall's,
Mr.
Lloyd
Price
gave
150
guineas
for
Drake.
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