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indebted to them. Numerous kennels have been 

 entirely formed from Belvoir and Brocklesby drafts, 

 or by the kind privilege allowed to sportsmen by 

 the Dukes of Rutland and the Earls of Yarborough 

 in the services of stallion hounds. It is not too 

 much to say that these kennels are of national 

 importance to masters of foxhounds generally, 

 therefore the condition of the great packs and how 

 the entries have been made up each successive 

 season, must be a source of great interest. Such 

 entries as they always were too ! with Belvoir 

 walking a hundred couple of puppies a year, and 

 Brocklesby nearly the same number, whilst from 

 this prodigious choice just seventeen couple was 

 the selected few that each kennel put on. 



The standard of 23 inches, to which Will 

 Goodall reduced the pack on his accession to 

 power, has been maintained, and the work, breed- 

 ing, and beauty of Lord Yarborough's Rallywood, 

 who came to Belvoir in 1850 when an old hound, 

 has been transmitted to his present descendants. 

 Will Goodall said of him : " This is a most 

 beautiful short-legged dog, exceedingly light of 

 bone, but with beautiful legs and feet ; he was 

 considered by the late Will Smith to be one of the 

 best-bred hounds in the Brocklesby kennels. Rose- 

 bud, his dam, worked until she was ten years old, 

 and was never known to do anything wrong was 

 perfection in her work, and everlasting." Brocklesby 

 Rallywood's age did not prevent Goodall from 

 sending fifty -three couple of puppies by him out to 

 walk the next season. It has always been admitted 



