Distinguished Background

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31322, 18 March 1967, Page 10

Distinguished Background

These five pups photographed at Ashburton the other day have a distinguished father. He is Wiston Cap, belonging to Mr J. Richardson, of Peebles, in Scotland. Wiston Cup is the winner of many trials in Britain. He was supreme champion at the British open trials at Cardiff in 1965, winner of the Scottish international trials in the same year, second in the Scottish international trials last year and winner of the Shepherds’ Cup

international trials in Scotland last year. Mr J. Gilchrist’s Spot, last year's Scottish national champion and runner-up for the international supreme championship, and Wiston Cap carry some of the same blood in their veins. Mr Gilchrist is of Roslin, Midlothian. The mother of these pups, a two-and-a-half-year-old Border Collie called Mist, who is closely related to Scottish dog trial winners, was mated with Wiston Cap before she was imported into New Zealand by Mr D. C. McArthur,

of Ashburton, last December. The pups were born on Christmas Day and will be registered in the international stud book of the United Kingdom.

Mist came from Mr John Thompson, of Stranraer, Wigtonshire, Scotland, and is the third dog that Mr McArthur has bought from the same man.

In the photograph with the dogs are Mr McArthur’s grandchildren, Felicity (on the left) and Sandra Chatterton.