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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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It
is
not
easy
to
find
authentic
pedigrees
going
back
further
than
a
quarter
of
a
century,
but
Mr.
C.
A.
Phillips
can
trace
his
own
strain
back
to
1860,
and
Mr.
James
Farrow
was
exhibiting
successfully
thirty-five
years
ago.
The
former
gentleman
published
the
pedigree
of
his
bitch
Rivington
Dora
for
eighteen
generations
in
extenso
in
The
Sporting
Spaniel;
while
the
famous
Obo
strain
of
the
latter
may
be
said
to
have
exercised
more
influence
than
any
other
on
the
black
variety
both
in
this
country
and
in
the
United
States.
It
was
in
1880
that
the
most
famous
of
all
the
"pillars"
of
the
Cocker
stud,
Mr.
James
Farrow's
Obo,
made
his
first
bow
to
the
public,
he
and
his
litter
sister
Sally
having
been
born
the
year
before.
He
won
the
highest
honours
that
the
show
bench
can
give,
and
the
importance
of
his
service
to
the
breed
both
in
his
owner's
kennel
and
outside
it,
can
scarcely
be
over-estimated.
Nearly
all
of
the
best
blacks,
and
many
of
the
best
coloured
Cockers,
are
descended
from
him.
At
this
period
the
type
mostly
favoured
was
that
of
a
dog
rather
longer
in
the
body
and
lower
on
the
leg
than
it
is
at
present,
but
the
Obo
family
marked
a
progressive
step,
and
very
rightly
kept
on
winning
under
all
the
best
judges
for
many
years,
their
owner
being
far
too
good
a
judge
himself
ever
to
exhibit
anything
but
first-class
specimens.
Meanwhile,
although
the
blacks
were
far
the
most
fashionable--and
it
was
said
that
it
was
hopeless
to
try
to
get
the
same
quality
in
coloured
specimens--several
enthusiastic
breeders
for
colour
were
quietly
at
work,
quite
undismayed
by
the
predilection
shown
by
most
exhibitors
and
judges
for
the
former
colour.
Among
them
was
Mr.
C.
A.
Phillips,
whose
two
bitches
from
Mr.
James
Freme,
of
Wepre
Hall,
Flintshire,
succeeded
in
breeding
from
one
of
them,
whom
he
named
Rivington
Sloe,
the
celebrated
dog
Rivington
Signal,
who,
mated
with
Rivington
Blossom,
produced
Rivington
Bloom,
who
was
in
turn
the
dam
of
Rivington
Redcoat.
These
dogs
proved
almost,
if
not
quite,
as
valuable
to
the
coloured
variety
as
Obo
did
to
the
blacks,
and
formed
the
foundation
of
Mr.
J.
M.
Porter's
celebrated
Braeside
strain
which
afterwards
became
so
famous.
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