THE RADNOR 



their favor, rather than hunt the country with an American pack, he resigned 

 in 1901, and moved the English pack to his place on the Brandywane, 

 where he had for some time been keeping a small pack of his own. 



The sentiment which influenced the Radnor Field to desire a change back 

 to the American hound, after several years of trial of the English hounds, 

 was the apparent inability of the latter to furnish sport on cold, dry days, 

 and their lack of voice, making it very difficult for the Field to get to them 

 should they be thrown out in their broken country. 



Mr. Mather left the American pack, on his retirement from office, taking 

 the English pack, which was his own property, away with him. His resigna- 

 tion was a great loss to the Hunt, and his successor, Mr. John R. Valentine, 

 had a difficult task to continue to show as good sport as his predecessor. 

 He was, however, fully equal to it. Mr. Mather was, as has been said, an 

 ardent supporter of the English hound, and although he had always kept at 

 Radnor an American pack as well as the English one, it was the latter that 

 had been his greatest hobby, while Mr. Valentine was, and still is, a staunch 

 believer in the merits of American hounds for the Radnor country. He, how- 

 ever, realized their shortcomings, and promptly set to work to correct them 

 as rapidly as possible, by crossing American dog-hounds on carefully selected 

 bitches from the hill counties of England and Scotland, principally from the 

 Fife and the Blackmore Vale. The American hounds were carefully selected 

 for nose, voice, stamina and courage, and always tri-colored. This was done 

 in the hope of getting a pack wath more levelness and type than the usual 

 American pack possesses ; at the same time, in no way sacrificing their won- 

 derful nose and deep toned voice, so welcome to the sportsman who has 

 made a wrong turn, or been left at the covert-side when the hounds have 

 gone away. That this has been accomplished can be doubted by no one who 

 has been out •with the Radnor in the last five seasons. They have size and 

 substance, not so much as the English, to be sure, but enough. They are 

 fast, biddable, and good to look at, and have as good noses as pure Amer- 

 ican hounds, possessing all their voice as well. 



The principal stallion hounds are " Leader," " Link " and " Ming," the 

 former being the sire of more than half the pack. In no case has the Eng- 



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