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the borders of the Belvoir and Quorn countries, and 

 here Mrs. Sherbrooke saw a lot of sport when the immortal 

 Gillard and Tom Firr were still hunting the respective 

 packs. In 1893, the year prior to his taking the Sinnington 

 Hounds, Mr. Sherbrooke married his cousin, who is a first-rate 

 horse-woman, and with a knowledge of hounds and hunting 

 such as is rare enough in man. Perhaps this is not to be 

 wondered at when one remembers the environments of her 

 youth, encouraged by so great a star in the hunting world 

 as her father, and her own experience later. 



The result of all this is what I stated at the outset, that 

 Mrs. Sherbrooke has been of the greatest assistance to her 

 husband in kennel and in the field. No one is more ready 

 to admit this than the ex-Master of the Sinnington, who 

 once said to the writer, " Any success I may have attained 

 in hound breeding is greatly due to my wife, whilst her 

 assistance in the field has been most helpful." Like 

 her husband, Mrs. Sherbrooke is fond of most sport, and a 

 few years ago she took a great interest in steeple-chasing. 

 Her horse, " Mr. Wilson," won the South Notts Hunt 

 Point-to-Point Steeple-chase in 1885, ridden by Mr. George 

 Brewster, and again in 1887, the well-known Grand National 

 horse, Black Prince, which had become her property, and 

 which she rode to hounds for years, won for her the Rufford 

 Hunt Cup at Heath Races, ridden by Mr. Rippon Brockton. 

 So with such a record and such sporting characteristics, there 

 is little wonder the twain were able to settle down at once in 

 our essentially sporting Yorkshire, and demand the support 

 of those residing in the Sinnington territory. Speaking on 

 December 18, 1905, Mr. Sherbrooke declared that : " We 

 came to Yorkshire eleven years ago to take the hounds as 

 entire strangers, yet now we are surrounded by a host of 

 much valued friends in the home which we have chosen in 

 your delightful County." From the first season, Mr. Sher- 

 brooke showed good sport, despite his strangeness to the 

 idiosyncrasies of the locality, which is a drawback in such a 

 country as the Sinningtofli perhaps more than anywhere 

 else, for as those who live in it know full well on the hills 



