Possible Clues:

• Not the sort of horn this hound is likely to hear?
• Low, smooth-haired breed of hound
• Something good to put on black dog
• Smooth-haired, long-eared hound
• It's all to the good to take the head off the hound
• Hound and lay about stupid fellow
• What a fishy start for anything so canine
• Bet that's about a fool at short leg!
• Barker is a fool to back the outsider
• It's all to the good if the dog loses its head