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 (1911) (14761258514)

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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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mostcelebrated Mastiffs of the past forty years :Turk (2,349) mentioned above, was a fawn,and was considered the best Mastiff ofhis day ; he won numerous prizes for hisdifferent owners, and eventually ended hisdays in the kennels of Mr. Edwin Brough,who relinquished Mastiffs in favour of in the early seventies, but it is not as ashow dog alone that this dog has a claimto be mentioned, for he sired many goodMastiffs, who in their turn left their markon the breed. Among them may be men-tioned Mr. Nichols Prince, a small dogthat was more useful at the stud than onthe show bench, and The Shah (4,457),bred by Mr. Balleston, and afterwardsowned by Mr. C. T. Harris, by whom hewas claimed upon his first appearance asa puppy at the Crystal Palace, 1874. Hewas not quite so flat in skull as he shouldhave been, but otherwise he was a fineMastiff; the best of his stock was TheEmperor (9,340). Crown Prince (10,544) was a ^awn dogwith a Dudley nose and light eye, and was 24 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.
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THE CELEBRATED CH. BEAUFORT. BRED BY MR. J. SIDNEY TURNER BY BEAU LADY ISABEL. REPUTED TO BE THE MOST PERFECT MASTIFF OF THE PAST TWENTY YEARS.Photograph by Schrciber. pale in muzzle, and whilst full credit mustbe given to him for having sired many goodMastiffs, he must be held responsible forthe faults in many specimens of more recentyears. Unfortunately, he was indiscrim-inately bred from, with the result that ina very short time breeders found it impossibleto find a Mastiff unrelated to him. Theregistered pedigree of Crown Prince is byYoung Prince by Prince, mentioned above,but the correctness of this pedigree wasdisputed at the time. The matter wasthoroughly investigated, and there w-as notsufficient evidence to show that any otherdog was the sire. He was bred by Mr.Woolmore, and claimed by the Rev. W. J.Mellor upon his first appearance on theshow bench after he had awarded him firstprize. He afterwards passed into the handsof Dr. Forbes Winslow, and upon thedispersal of that exhi