K; the WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1791 



Avas tlu' next (lucstioii. " Fetcli liini out," said Mr. Barke 

 to his ostler. ' and I will show you." The pony was no 

 sooner bi-ouo'ht out than Mr. Barke mounted — not in the 

 i^^'ueral way, lor, to show the leaping powers and surprising 

 docility of the ])onv, the owner sat with his face towards 

 the tail, and having put his head straight, with a quiet 

 ■ come uj) ' he cleared a flight of rails into the turnpike 

 road, to the great amusement of his companions. At their 

 request he repeated the leap in the same extraordinary 

 manner, and sold his pony for the sum he asked without 

 further recommendation. At the Stratford Hunt meeting 

 they sold horses by handicap, and prices were, even in 

 those days, given for hunters which are not exceeded now ; 

 and at one of these sales Mr. Best bought Conlidence from 

 Mr. Lockley for 7oO guineas, this horse having carried the 

 latter throughout a severe run, and then jumped a fence of 

 timber at the end of it. 



Mr. Corbet had a very noted hound called Trojan,* 

 stated, in a letter signed by Somerville, to have hunted eight 

 seasons, and described as a black and white hound. He 

 never was lame or missed a day's hunting, and was not 

 only the fastest hound in the pack, but the best hunter. 

 He was the founder and the mainstay of Mr. Corbet's 

 pack, and his blood became famous throughout other 

 kennels. " The Blood of the Trojans " was always drank 

 after " The King " at the Hunt Club dinners at Stratford,! 

 and Mr. Corbet was called "the Father of the Trojans." | 



* There is a story told that this hound came as a "waif and a stray " to the kennels 

 at Siindorne, and that no one knew where he came from, but that he was so good 

 looking that he was taken out huntiug, and then his excellent qualities were discovered, 

 and he was largely bred from, both by Mr. Corbet and Sir Kichard Puleston, as well as 

 by other leading breeders of hounds in England. (But vide infra.) 



t Amongst Salopian foxhunters, too, at every convivial meeting, there was "one 

 cheer more for the blood of Trojan."— Eev. T. H. G. Puleston's " The Wynnstay 

 Country." 



t Mr. Corbet, we find from his hound lists, bred also from Lord Fitzwilliam's Fatal^ 

 Viper, Hero, Layman. Pontiff, Tipler, and Actor; Sir R. Puleston's Gainer, Dromo, 

 Triumph, Dexter, and Tiviuccer, Sir Thomas Mostyn's Hannibal. His pack in 1807 

 was reinforced by Rally, Venus, Marchioness, Duchess, Darlington, Lawyer, Leicester, 

 Lowther, Rally, Bedford. Baroness, Hero, and Hardwick from Prees' Kennels, probably 

 when Mr. Hill gave up his hounds ; also by Bluster and Gameboy from Lord 

 Southampton's. In his hound-book of 1807-8 we only find Driver, Dasher, Tryal (.-(c), 



