St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-02-03
FIELD RECORDS OF RED IRISH
SETTERS.e
From Forest and Stream.l

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I beg to take a few exceptions to
some of the assertions of "PiOus Jeems'
in your issue OF the nth, just at hand.
He takes the liberty OF pitching into q
breed love, and take the liberty OF
defending that breed.
"Pions Jeems" in his letter says: The
red Irish always was and always Will
be failure in field trials, because they
are never what sportsmen call level
headed, with the exception OF the Camp
bell strain of Red Irish which is I'M
bued with considerable quantity of ma
tive blood, know of no good Ones" ]
suppose that when he excepted the
Campbell strain, he remembers the VIC
tories OF a certain red dog of Mr.. Camp
BELLS over the great Llewellin Glad
stone every time they have ever met,
and every pointer ever run against
him, and am glad he did, for the sire
OF that red champion, most famous OF
all the Campbell strain, a dog never de-
feated in single stake or match, is
now by my side, and he is red Irish too,
to the manor born. In answer to the
libel OF "Pious Jeems'' as quoted above,
permit me to quote the following from
the kennel editors report of the field
trials at High Point, where ''Piousn
judged Fourth Series.-As we APP
preached the end, each successive heat
was watched with absorbing interestc
There We're now but five lefti four setl
tiers and one pointer, each had won three
heats, and copclusirely shO,rs By their
performances that in no event could the
honors OF victory, by any accident or
slowed. Many good ones had dropped
out, but there were none left in the
race who were andese,yiag that appella-
tion,n etc. The italics are mine. Yet
two of those four settlers were red Irish,
and their sire lies by my side as am
writing this.
They did not get a place, it is true
but they proved themselves at least
good ones, or they could not have de-
feated the dogs they did under the
Judgment of "Pious Jeems.n Quite a
difference between the assertions OF
4.Piousp and report Of Forrest and
Stream. ss
he says he does not know Of any good
Irish settlers. Well, let us see. AS he,
of course, speaks from his field trial
experience, 30 by that will judge him.
Where two dogs divide q prize equally
they get equal honor. Well, the irwin
chile London divided second at Opelou-
sas with the Llewellin Foreman, and
this same Foreman was beaten at High
Judging, too. What was the matter
Didn't an Irish setter prove good one.
that timer Foreman is called one of
the grandest field dogs of the country,
and have do doubt he is, but still an
Irish dog had "leyel head" enough to
down him at High Point.
What was the trouble with the Lew
ellin Bessie, that she fell before an
Irish setter at High Point She must
have. been good one in 1881, for she was
second in the N. A. K. Club Derby, at
Grand Junction. Tenn, in class Of
which it was said "the best OF the Der
by runners would have had but little
trouble to have defeated the aged dogs,
with few exceptions, which ran III
previous trials and for the proof that
she was good one in 1889, refer you
to the trials at Paramount, Mimi, in
September, when she divided equal
third with Gertrude and Count Noble.
Again the English setter POllnx, win
ner of the. Eastern Field Trial Derby of
1881, was beaten at High Point BY an
Irish setter, and yet the man who judged
at High Point says he knows Of no good
Irish setter. Now, either these Llewel-
lin settlers were buffers and their
field trial winning records prove they
were not, or else 'Pions Jeemsn wrote
IN haste and unthinkingly in his libel
on their cOnquerers.
Have Irish settlers always been fail
nres at field trials
can prove by the records, aud an
swer most emphatically, no; again
showing that that gentleman must have
written without due consideration of
his subject. 4.
How much Of a failure at Memphis,
in 1876, when the Brace Stakes were
won by LleWellin and an Irish red 4
How much at Hampton, Iowa, in 1877,
when the second prize in the Puppy
Stakes was won by an Irish red, and the
famous Gladstone ran unplaced, to say
nothing of the third prize winner being
strongly imbued with Irish blood r
The sire OF that second prize winner is
bymy side, and bred the sire Of the
winner of the third.
How much of q failure at Sank Gem
ter, Mimi, in 1873, when first in the
champion Stakes was won by an Irish
red, and the second prize winner had
quite a dash OF Irish blood though his
sire, who was bred by me Z How much
of o failure at the Eastern Field Trials
OF 1887, wien the second prize in ALL
Aged Stake was won by an eighteen
month old Irish red, whose sire looks
mp to me and asks with his deep brown
eyes, What is the matter with .Pious
Jeems ~, RI.
How much Of failure at the Eastern
Trials of 1880, when first in Puppy
Stakes was won by an Irish red, whose
grandsire I can put my hand on this
very minute How much Of failure
at Robins Island, in 1881, when two
1rish reds defeated all their COMPETE