EKC:
""756 Bob" -- Mr. J. Bird's, London (once shown by Mr. Gilbert of 22, Upper Phillimore-place, Kensington); breeder, Mr. J. Lang, of Cockspur-street, London; born 1860. Pedigree: By "Mr. Battcock's Joker" (by "Lord Derby's Rap" out of "Fan" [see note below]) out of "Mr. Lang's Fan"; "Fan" was by "Lang's Frank" out of "Tom Taylor's Bell"; "Frank" by Lang's celebrated "Flint I" out of "Colonel Moore's Doll"; "Bell" by "Lord Ducie's Duncan" out of "Sir Massey Stanley's Bloom"; "Flint" by "Seal's Nero" out of "Mr. Smith's, of Knottingley, Nell"; "Nell" was by a lemon and white dog of Sir H. Gooderick's out of "Edge's Bell". ("Bob" is own brother to "Venus" and sire of "Whitehouse's Hamlet", and other prize-winners of Mr. WHitehouse's kennel). Chief Performance: Ashburnham Hall, Cremorne, 1st prize, 1863; Birmingham, 1st prize, 1860.
-- EKC Studbook, Vol.1
EKC:
""757 Bob" -- Mr. Gilbert's (see "Bird's Bob, No. 756")."
-- EKC Studbook, Vol.1
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"Battock's (Battcock's) Joker":
EKC entry for "Bird's Bob 756" lists "Battcock's Joker's" dam as "Fan"
HOWEVER ...
EKC entry for
"Smith's Major 904" and
"Hamlet 876"
gives "Battcock Joker's" dam as "Bell" ...
AKC studbook entries
list "Battock Joker's" dam as "Belle" or "Bell" ...
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""Mr. Bird's Bob" was a dog very wide across the nose:
I dare say you have noticed that most dogs with a broad nose carry their
heads high."
-- Arkwright, 1906
"Contemporary with the Antrobus, Edge, Sefton, and Moore of Appleby strains,
of which
"Brockton's Bounce" and
"Statter's Major"
were the leading lights,
there existed a breed of lemon and whites which had a small, but
enthusiastic following. Chief among these was H. Gilbert, who owned two
dogs called "Bob" and "Major". Lemon and whites, before the era of
field trials and dog shows, were not generally popular, but with the advent
of public competitions the Gilbert dogs and a few other became better known
and steadily rose in popular favor, for they exemplified the handsome, lithe,
clean-cut type of pointer which proved to be very attractive when shown beside
the "Bounce" and "Major" varieties. In the field these lemon and whites
demonstrated that they had speed, style and endurance far in excess of the
liver and whites and once they came before the public, it was not long until
others took them up. "Gilbert's Bob" became the property of Mr. Bird, who
exhibited him at the second show of the Birmingham Kennel Club which was held
in 1860. At this event "Bob" took first prize and among those who were attracted
toward him was J.W. Whitehouse, of Ipsley Court, Redditch, who owned a bitch
which he called "Juno". This bitch won fifth place at this show, and it was then
that Mr. Whitehouse made arrangements to breed "Juno" to "Bob". The result
of this mating produced eight puppies, of which Mr. Whitehouse retained three
for himself. Theses were
"Hamlet,
Carlo, and Mona"."
-- Hochwalt, 1923, The Modern Pointer
""Bob ... was bred by J. Lang, the famous gun-maker of Cockspur street,
London, who was noted, in his day, for breeding high-class pointers, a calling
which seemd to go hand-in-hand with gun-making those days. "Bob's" pedigree
goes back to all the best old blood ..."
-- Hochwalt, 1923, The Modern Pointer
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