COURSING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 79, 28 January 1892, Page 2

COURSING.

Mr. T. Macready has called on us and asked us to explain a grievance he has. It is to the effect that some few weeks since he imported from Australia a greyhound dog named Padlock, being a fawn dog by Rebellion— Westeria, and some other persons whom he names being breeders of dogs having spread reports to the effect that it was a case of “ ringing in,” Mr. Macready took steps to clear himself from such an unjust imputation by writing to the Melbourne Sportsman, and getting another independent man to do likewise. The following are the answers given by that journal of the 12th inst.: — Mr. T. Macready, Auckland, writes :—I purchased, through an agent in Melbourne, a dog named Padlock as being by Rebellion from Westeria. What I want to know is the dog’s breeding as represented ? Answer —We have made inquiries from Mrs. Jane Skidmore, who sold the dog in question, and she writes :—“This is to certify that I sold the stud dog Padlock to Mr. John Daly, of Brunswick, and received payment, on the 19th of December, 1891. Padlock is a fawn dog by Rebellion—Westeria.—Jane Skidmore, Hopestreet, Brunswick.” Constant Reader, Auckland.— Padlock was a fawn dog by Rebellion—Westeria, and was sold by the widow of the late Tom Skidmore to a purchaser named Daly, who was acting as agent tor an Auckland man. There can, therefore, be no possible doubt that the dog now posing in Auckland as Padlock is the real Simon Pure. Mr. Macready has been breeding dogs in Auckland for the last 20 years, and greyhounds for about 14 years, and is not conscious of having done the slightest dishonest transaction in connection therewith. He was the means of Welcome Jack being imported; he brought Stairlad and Swallow from Scotland, the former being the sire of Caradoc, and the latter the mother of Blue Rock from the late Mr. A. Town’s imported dog Mornington, the bitch having been sent to Australia on a visit to him. When Blue Rock retired she was sent on a trip to visit the celebrated Rent Charge in Melbourne, and it was Mr. Macready who brought Union Jack up from the South and presented him to Mr. Adam Cairns. The above are only a few items to show what Mr. Macready has done to improve the breed of greyhounds in Auckland, and it is little short of scandalous that unscrupulous persons themselves breeders of dogs, should so attempt to malign an honest man and injure him through what appears to be only petty jealousy.