Related article: himself relegated to eighth place. The best of his young stock is Orchid, but his principal winner has been the five-yearold Ameer. The Duke of Westminster's grand stallion is credited with;^8,75o los., made up by the capture of fifteen and a half races by eleven of his progeny. Domino's position has been commented upon, so we pass to St. Serf, who, next to his own sire, is the most successful of the select group of stallions standing at the Duke of Portland's stud, having had ten winners of seven- teen and a half races, Order Famciclovir value ;^7,7i i . His leading two-year-old is Ian (brother to St. la), whom race- goers will remember as running a dead-heat with Star Shoot at Sandown Park. Nothing suc- ceeds like success, they say, and we are constantly confronted with striking exemplifications of the old saw on the Turf and at the stud. In the first few Generic Famciclovir months of the season, when Melton's pro- duce were all - conquering, the stock of his stud companion, Orion, were also Famciclovir Online exceptionally prominent, soon crediting him with a big sum in winnings ; in fact, at one time the son of Bend Or and Shotover headed the list, now he follows Orme, Among his best winners are the three- year-olds Chevening, Downham and Perseverance, and the two- year-old Hercules, his total being nine winners, eighteen races. Twelfth on the list, seven hun- Purchase Famciclovir Online dred pounds in advance of Kil- warlin (whose death this year was a bad loss to Sir Rob^t Affleck), comes St. Angelo (four- teen winners, twenty-eight rac^, ;^7,092). His progeny have been particularly busy this season, as his figures show, but no very rich races have fallen to their share, the chief winners being Sir Geoffrey (now at the stud), Buy Famciclovir Online Nono and Lucknow. Among the remaining sires with winners of ;f 5,000 at the time of writing are to be noted the Americans Sen- sation (second last year) and The Sailor Prince, the Derby winner Sir Hugo (sire of Sir Hercules, Free Companion and Lord Quex), Martagon (sire of Champ de Mars and Mazagan), Enthusiast (sire of Eager), Bona Vista (now in Hungary), Juggler (sire of Trevor • and Lackford) and Royal Hamp- ton (sire of Forfarshire and Sang Bleu). In conclusion, it should be added that the above figures are calculated up to the second Monday in November, and em- brace the results of such Irish racing as appears in the official Racing Calendar. A. C. I900.] 40I Retriever Trials on Game. Although field trials for pointers and setters sprang into existence almost simultaneously with dog shows in the 'sixties, and have advanced ever since in popu- larity, trials Purchase Famciclovir for retrievers have not exceeded five all told in thirty years. This is the more curious because pointers and setters have become less used for work during the period, whereas the demand for retrievers has enormously increased. Now we have five field trials in the year for the index dogs ; that is just as many as we have had for retrievers in thirty years. Famciclovir Buy Whether the un- mixed influence of dog shows would have exterminated pointers and setters with field qualities is doubtful, but the result of the double competitions has been to divide the breeds Famciclovir 500mg into those that have modern dog- show blood and those which have not. The latter are obviously only kept for work, and it is a proportion of these dogs that annually try conclu- sions at field trials. A show dog may have field-trial blood in him ; but a field-trial dog has a field- trial pedigree as different from the other as those of representa- tives of two Indian castes. It is necessary to remember this outcome of annual trials on game when we look at the re- trievers of the day ; for over these the shows have had uncontrolled influence and have evolved the dog as we see it to-day. It is true that sportsmen have had something to say in the matter, they have become possessed of show retrievers, and have bred from them on the principle of the survival of the fittest — that is the most suitable for work, not for show. But as each generation became more fit for work, it lost, or got behind, those strains of the same breed that were ever advancing in some new points of prettiness to catch the judge's eye, and so it happens that, when- ever we have a field trial for retrievers, the hopes of good sportsmen naturally are that these beauties should show that they are of sterling merit. This is so because we all fancy ourselves as judges of animal formation, and it is distinctly flattering to our judgment when those we select as the most likely looking ones really prove themselves the best at work. This love of beauty and good formation is no doubt the reason why the show re- trievers, and especially the flat- coated black ones, are spread all over the country, and are giving the old local breeds a hard struggle for Buy Famciclovir existence in most parts. But the few field trials we have had have shown that this love of good points must be tempered by discretion ; and that it is unsafe to leave this breed to the typifying influences of dog shows alone. At the first retriever trial ever held, one at which the writer acted Order Famciclovir Online as Hon. Sec, a committee of gentlemen interested in the working qualities of pointers and setters resolved to add a couple of stakes for old and young re- trievers. Famciclovir 500 Mg This was as long ago as 1 87 1, and the trials took place on the beautiful property of Vay- nol, near Bangor, belonging to Mr. Assheton Smith. Then, as now, the majority of dogs entered were of the show sorts, at that time hardly distinguishable from their cousins the local varieties. It may be that the discontinuance 402 BAILYS MAGAZINE. [D of the Vaynol field-trials, after a couple of very successful meet- ings, had a great deal to do with the neglect by field trialers of retrievers .for the next twenty- eight Buy Cheap Famciclovir years. Be that as it may, the breed cannot be tested in the spring when most field trials are held. On the other hand, it may be that preconceived notions of what a retriever should look like