THE MISSOURI 



Jr., was elected Master, and began hunting with a draft of hounds procured 

 from the Toronto. The sport proved very popular, and in 1 903 found a 

 greater following, Mr. Velie continuing in office during 1903 and 1904, 

 when the present Master, Dr. St. Clair Streett, was elected. Various addi- 

 tions to the pack have been made, some hounds having been procured from 

 the London Hunt, of London, Ontario, and the Middlesex Foxhounds, of 

 South Lincoln, Mass., as well as some American hounds which were drafted 

 from the Radnor Hunt. The present Master has some fourteen couples in 

 the kennels, about equally divided between American and English, and he 

 is breeding the American dogs to the English bitches, vnth a view to getting 

 a fast draghound v«th the steadiness and reliability of the English hound, 

 and especially the babbling ability of his American cousin. So much for the 

 pack. As for the mounts, it may be remarked that Kansas City can boast 

 a very fine lot of hunters. Dr. Streett's own string, three of which are shown 

 in one of the illustrations to this article, are all of them clean-breds, or very 

 nearly so, and as the Master has the reputation of gomg hard, it goes with- 

 out saying that they can jump and gallop. 



The country, as has been said, is cursed with v/ire, but except for that it 

 is almost ideal from a drag-hunting pomt of view. It is rollmg in places, with 

 a fair amount of open woodland, and there are great stretches of grassland 

 and pasture enclosed with high, strong fences. Nothing but a big-jumping, 

 clean-bred horse can live behind a fast pack in such a country as this, and 

 that is the kind of animal in general use. Dr. Streett, acting for the Club, 

 has taken great pains to make friends with the landowners in the country, and 

 the result is very gratifying. Each year the Club gives a luncheon to the 

 farmers of the vicinity, and always welcomes them to its Field Day and polo 

 matches. Many of the landowners are members of the Hunt, and the Mas- 

 ter is always glad to see them in the Field behind the hounds. During the 

 last year Dr. Streett's efforts in this direction have met with such success that 

 the Hunt has now an area over which to ride more than five times as large 

 as in the years of its infancy. 



The Club maintains its own stables, kennels, schooling ground and polo 

 field at Westport Station, some five miles south of Kansas City, and from 



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