Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15


Dashing Novice, Janets dam, divides
with Sue the honor of being the best bitch
ever raced in public trials in America.
Dashing Novice was whelped in Mr..
Llewellin's kennel in England, and in
April, 1881, when only nine months old,
won third in the English Derby, and in
| December of the same year won first In
the National Derby at Grand Junction,
Tenn. She also won the Pennsylvania
Derby the same year, and has won at other
| trials since. Dashing Novice is superbly
bred, being by Dash IL, out of Novel.
Dash II. was sired by Blue Prince, out of
| Armstrong; Kate; she by Laverack's Old
great winner, Duke, spoken of above.
Dash Ii. was beautiful dog of almost
faultless form, and was selected by Stone
henge, the authority on the proper form
of dogs the world over, to illustrate the
| English setter, in his last edition OF Dogs
| of the British Islands" Dash II. won five
| English field trials, and was then pur-
chased by Mr.. Llewellin at the long price
| of 81 $50, and for his new owner sired
three different winners of the English
Derby, VIZ: Dashing Bondhu, Dashing
Ditto, and Dashing Ciinker, The former,
in addition to winning the Derby, also won
the aged stake, while still in his puppy
form, beating the great crack, McDona's
| Ranger.
Novel (Dashing Noyice's dam), is best
described by G. Thorpe Burtmam, the
English correspondent Of the AmerjcGn
| Field, in his Notes on the English Field
Trials of 1880" which appeared in that
paper on June 10th of that year. Speak
| ing of Novel, he SAYS: GAS to Purcell Lew
ellin's Novel has fallen the lions share of
| honors, ! shall, therefore, give her first
place. She having won in the brace stakes
| and also run through the mixed aged stakes
at Debden, entities her to the blue rib
| bon of the season, and she well deserves
the prizes awarded to her. In appearance
she is a beautiful animal She is perfectly
| broken, requires no looking after at all, Is
as stanch as a rock, exhibits no jealousy,
and is tirst-ciass at backing. She exhibits
a lovely temper, as seen by the anxiety
she displays in obeying her instructions.
1t will be remembered by your read
ers that she was only put out of a big
stake in 1873 in the last round by Dash
! H." Bred to the latter dog, she threw
Dashing Novice, the dam of the California
! Kennels Janet. "Leatherhead," in Bets
Lie, said of Novel, a should doubt il
there is any setter living that could beat
the beautiful bitch Novel"
THE NEXT LITTER EXAMINED
Was beautiful lot Of four dogs and three
bitches, all evenly marked-orange and
whitc-by Loadstone, out of Enid. Enid
is handsome orange and white bitch, i'm
| ported from Georgia, sired by Clean, out
of Doe, and is a hall-sister to the great
| field trial bitch Daisy f, and is an exceed
ingly well-bred one. Clean was sired by
| Lincoln, out of Blaze In 1877 Harry
| Bishop and Joseph A. Dew, two wealthy
residents of Tennessee, concluded to estab-
lish frst-class kennel Of Llewcllin settlers
and cast about for a stud dog. J. c. Hig-
gins OF Wilmington, Delaware, brother Of
| the present United States Senator from
| that State-who is also very fond of settlers
had, a few months before. imported
from Mr. Llewellin's' kennel the dog Lin
| coin, by Dan, out of Lii ii. Messrs. Dew
and Bishop journeyed dtoWilmington and in
| spected Lincoln, and were greatly pleased
with him, but thought they would 90 to
England and see what they could do there
in the way Of getting a stud dog to meet
their fancy, and also some bitches. They
went and found nothing that money would
buy that suited them as we'll as Lincoln,
although they offered $4,000 for Count
| Nind'em; so, when they returned, they
purchased Lincoln for $500, and placed
him at the head OF the Montyiew Kennel
at Columbia, Tenn.
Lincoln, after their purchase of him,
won Grst in the aged stake at Patoka in
1879 and first in brace stakes with Count
| Fred, and many of the Lincoln partisans
always claimed that Lincoln was the peer
Of Gladstone in the field, although the dogs
never met in competition. When in
| England Nessrs. Dew and Bishop our
chased from Mr. LIewelIin the bitten
Countess Bear, winner of the first English
Derby, and before starting for America
bred her to Reeds Sam, a winner of eight
English field trials. COUNTESS Bear was
! sired by Dan out Of Countess.
About 1850 the Montview kennel was
! broken up, and Countess Bear was adyer-
tised for sale at $3.50. As soon as Mr.
LIewellin heard Of it he cabled across and
bought her back at that price. After she
arrived again in England she whelped two
winners of the English Derby, viz;
! Dashing BondhUand Dashing gClinker,while
Dashiuy Beauty, sister TO Dashing Bondhu
won the puppy stake at Mansfield the
same year that Bondhu won, beating a
field of sixteen. These three were sired
by Dash II. Countess, the dam Of Counties.
Bear, when she came out, was the most
beautiful bitch that mad ever been seen in
public in England, and while she swept
the bench by her beauty and perfect form
she also cleaned up most Of the prizes at
field trials by her wonderful speed, range
and nose.
Countess Bear, shortly after arriving in
this country, whelped to her service by
Sam, and Blaze was one Of the few-if not
the only one-that reached maturity
/ From the crossing of Blaze with Lincoln
came Clean. Doe, the dam of Enid. was
sired by Buckallew, trial winner, out Of
Birthstone, the latter by Gladstone out Of
Swazs, by Rake out of Fanny. Thus Enid
through her dam, Doe, gets one cross Oh
! Gladstone, one Of Druid, and two Of Rake.
Fanny.
The next lot of youngsters to be in.
spected was
A LITTER BY HAROLD, OUT or sUNLIT
Sunlit and her mother, Sweetheart, are
the pride Of the California Kennel. Sun
lit is bitch Of the highest form, and is
about at "the top Of the heap" as a fielder
She can boast of having more field trial
| winners in her pedigree than any setter in
the world, barring her brothers and sisters.
Out Of her first fourteen ancestors twelve
are field trial winners, and she herself won
! the California Derby of 1888, with but
nine days handling. Brought home after
her run in the derby she laid around her
kennel yard until ten days before the
trials last January, when she was taken to
Bakersfield, hunted eight times and started
| in the aged stakes, in which she beat her
first three opponents to standstill and
| pointless. Running rank and willftll, she
was beaten for first, and then for second
! by her litter brother, Sirius, she winning
{ Hid