Øverst: Fra hundeudstillingen i Ranelagh Club juni 1899. Ranelagh Sailing Club ligger langs Themsen i Barnes ved Putney Bridge i det sydvestlige London, dengang uden for London. Allerede fra 1886, herunder på denne udstilling, er Charles Cruft (navngiver "Cruft's Greatest Dog Show, Crufts International Dog Show) hårdarbejdende leder af udstillingen under Hendes Nåde Hertuginden af Newcastle's opsyn. Der blev afholdt årlig hundeudstilling på dette sted fra i hvert fald juni 1885. Ved den første udstilling var en af stifterne af The Great Dane Club, Gambier Bolton, dommer (se Beryl Lee Booker: Great Danes of Today, 1937+, s. 28), "Kennel Gazette", July 1887, "The Summer Show at The Ranelagh Club", og Rawdon B. Lee: Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) (1893, The Great Dane, s. 339). "...Mrs. Harry Horsfall wore a picture dress of white and blue, which became her immensely, and a shady hat trimmed with roses...Mrs. H.L. Horsfall won the championship in Great Danes with her well-known Champion Hannibal of Redgrave, who also won the challenge trophy and the Ranelagh Club's silver cup. Champion Hannibal is too famous to require description. I need only say that he was shown in his usual faultless form, and that his victory was a most popular one....Mrs. Horsfall was the largest exhibitor in this breed, and showed some splendid specimens, all of whom were prize-winners; also three of the novices who took first prizes were bred by her, though they have passed into other hands. Lot of Redgrave was looking very well, and took second in the Harlequin (bitches)..."
Nederst: De tigerstribede CH. Thor of Redgrave og CH. Viceroy of Redgrave.
Kilde: Dr. Morell Mackenzie(1837-1892): (post mortem) ”Great Danes – past and present” (1. udgave 1912, 2. udgave 1926, mellem s.16-17, mellem s. 20-21), Country Life Illustratred: Great Dogs and Great Ladies (17. juni 1899).
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