Grego records that the print of this subject was never published. Grego comments on the remarkably animated scene 'Drinking, betting, squabbling, an irregular scrimmage, picking of pockets, and similar humours are treated with due appreciation... The spirit of the picture is much increased by the introduction of numerous dogs, ferocious-looking "varmints", struggling to join the fray... The scene of this cruel sport, since made unlawful, is probably the 'Westiminster Pit', where these spectacles attracted people of rank and fashion as well as the dregs of the sporting and dog-fancying fraternaties. It was at the Westiminster Pit that the famous dog Billy won the vermin killing, by 'despatching a hundred rats at a time', see J. Grego, op.cit., II, p.206