""Brockton's Bounce", "Statter's Major", "Whitehouse's Hamlet", "Garth's Drake"! What names to conjure up visions of past glory in the game-fields of England! Mention this quartet and you have named the four cornerstones in the foundation of the Point breed. Add the name of "Price's Champion Bang" and you have heralded the principal fountainhead as we know it in this country today." -- The Sportsman's Bookshelf, Volume XIII, Hunting Dogs and Their Uses: The Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, PA, 1951

"The late Mr. Tom Statter, of Stand Hill, brought out some capital Pointers of the Lord Derby and Sefton strains. He ran "Major" in the early field trials, and a very grand liver and white dog he was, by "Old Major" out of "Garth's Mite", the grand dam of "Drake"; and so when Mr. Statter bred "Major" to "Sappho" by "Drake" he was inbreeding to a sort, and the result was "Dick", a beautiful dog that he ran in trials, and afterwards sold to Mr. Barclay Field for 60pounds. The last-named gentleman also ran him in trials, and probably few more brilliant Pointers ever ranged on a moor than Dick." -- Lowe, 1907, The New Book of the Dog

"The renowned breeders of the middle of the past century were -- Samuel Price, Brokton, F.H. Whitehouse, Thomas Statter, Richard Garth, John Lee Bullet, Lord Derby, Mr. Edge and Lord Bentinck, and, gradually out of their efforts emerged the pillars on which the modern breed rests -- The liver and white "Bounce", bred by Mr. Brokton, Mr. Whitehouse produced the lemon and white "Hamlet", Mr. T. Statter the lemon and white "Major" and Mr. R. Garth liver and white "Drake", Edge had achieved greatest fame with his liver and whites which might have something to do with this being the original colour of the Spanish dog, while black, lemon and white is rather a heritage of the foxhound markings. ... "Major" was a product of Lord Derby's "Antrobus" and Edge strain. Only a few of his daughters influenced the breed, but inbreeding continued to the other three pillars. -- W. Marr, Pointers and Setters

"Thomas Statter's most famous dog was "Statter's Major" supposedly a large dog for his day but with good conformation. He was used at stud quite often, one of the reasons being that, on one side of his pedigree through his dam, "Garth's Mite" (from the Earl of Derby's strain) he went back to the pure Spanish dog "Pallas" of Sir Vincent Corbett, through "Legh's Mars"." -- C.A. Robertshaw, 2000, Pointers Past and Present

""Statter's Major", who appeared first at the trials in 1867 and from Leatherhead, one of the prominent writers of the era came the statement that he was the grandest pointer whose pedigree was ever traced. This dog was an intensely bred Edge dog." -- W.E. Phillips, 1970, The True Pointer and His Ancient Heritage

""Statter's Major", owned by Thomas Statter, was a dog much on the order of "Brockton's Bounce", but even larger. Notwithstanding his size, however, he was a good pointer in conformation and in his day was considered one of the most valuable stock dogs before the English public. Another reason why he stood higher than some dogs in the estimation of breeders of his time is because his pedigree could be traced back practically to the time when the pointer made his entry into England via Spain. "Leatherhead", a prolific writer of the seventies and eighties, considered him the "grandest pointer whose pedigree was ever traced." He was a son of "Old Major" out of "Garth's Mite" and was, what might be known as pure Edge-Antrobus-Sefton-bred dog. His sire, "Old Major", was by "Antrobus' Major" which was by "Statham's Ross", by "Edge's Beau". "Jane", "Old Major's" dam, was by "Taylor's Ben", out of "Statter's Lill". The former inherited three or four crosses of the Moore of Appleby blood, consequently an intensely bred Edge dog. "Lill" was a Sefton-bred bitch on the one side, and on the other got another infusion from "Edge's Beau" and a cross to "Captain Jack White's Don". "Garth's Mite", the dam of "Statter's Major", was from the Earle of Derby strain, and went back to the pure Spanish "Pallas" of Sir Vincent Corbett, through "Legh's Mars". "Statter's Major" was considered a fast, resolute dog which ranged in beautiful style and at that period a dog was necessarily obliged to be a piece of mechanism which could be handled anywhere. He was started in Bala in 1867, but he failed to win on that occasion, because, as it was described at the time, "He behaved badly, due to the fact that he had just returned from the moors and would not own the scent of partridge, asis often the case with the stadiest dogs." He was not started in field trials subsequently to this Bala experience." -- Hochwalt, 1923, The Modern Pointer

"The old, heavy type; however, of which "Statter's Major" was the chief exponent, began going out of fashion and even as early as 1882, Stonehenge, in his work, "Dogs of the British Islands," mentions this fact when he says: "Hamlet's stock succeeded that of Major, which, handsome as they are admitted to be, have not shown much capacity for the work demanded of them in the field." Nevertheless, "Statter's Major", sired some dogs which figure very prominently in the pedigrees of present-day pointers and all breeders will agree, that as a foundation stock, this blood is very valuable." -- Hochwalt, 1923, The Modern Pointer