This gentleman will be well known to many of my readers, particularly those with sporting tastes, as an owner, breeder, and occasional exhibitor of several varieties of sporting dogs, such as Pointers, Setters, Retrievers, Spaniels, Beagles, and Fox-terriers, but he also keeps a few Airedale, Irish, and other Terriers.

From these kennels, which are conveniently situated at Elstree, near Hendon, about twelve miles from town, and are well adapted and convenient for their purpose, dogs are not only sent all over the United Kingdom, but also a great many exported to the continent of Europe and other parts of the world. Intending purchasers are enabled to see the dogs at work before deciding to have them, and in very many cases they have proved that it is possible to combine good working qualities with show properties by winning prizes in keen competition.

During the last two years some of the Clumber Spaniels bred here have won: second Puppy Stakes and certificates at the Sporting Spaniel Club's Trials at Sutton Scarsdale, January, 1899; first Puppy, first All-aged, and second Brace, Stakes at the same Club's Trials, at Havant, 1899; first Non-retrieving, first Retrieving, and first Brace, Stakes at the Sporting Spaniel Club's Trials at Welbeck, 1900, including specials and the Duke of Portland's Cup for the Best Working Spaniel, all three under one year old.

The Clumber Champion Beechgrove Donally has won forty-one first prizes and twelve championships, shown on twenty-two occasions, since August, 1899, believed to be an unbeaten record; Rob is a noted winner and sire of field trial and show winners; Beechgrove Marion won first and special, Crystal Palace; Beechgrove Clara, Beechgrove May, and Beechgrove Rob are all prize-winners and perfect at work.

Dogs from this kennel were first in all the stakes at the Sporting Spaniel Club's Trials at Neath, 1900, with Twenty Guinea Challenge Cup, ditto at the Club Trials at Clumber Park, 1900, with Challenge Bowl, and have taken other honours at many leading shows.

To even mention the names of the dogs and the prizes taken by this fancier would occupy more space than I could give to the matter; but I think I have said enough to show that the subject of this sketch, who devotes so much of his time and attention to the breeding and training of high-class specimens for sporting purposes, is well entitled to be included in the ranks of Doggy People, and I am pleased to be able to give a capital portrait of Mr. F. Winton Smith and two of his friends, accompanied by a couple of his well-known Clumbers.

I ought to have said that Mr. Winton Smith's kennels contain Pointers of all sizes and colours; Setters, both English and Irish; Retrievers, Wavy and Curly, the latter black and liver; Spaniels, Irish, Norfolk, Field, and Cockers; so that it forms one of the largest of mostly sporting dogs in the kingdom, and although many are prize winners, none are kept which are not able to do their proper work also.