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was of hunting, he was scarce!}' less fond of the Turf. 

 He raced in a style worthy of his fortunes, and when he 

 won the Derby with Cadland, after a dead heat with 

 the Colonel, even those who were losers by his victory 

 did not grudge so genuine a sportsman his good luck. 

 In 1830 the Duke announced that he should have to 

 reduce the number of hunting days per week, unless 

 some younger man undertook the duties of Master. 

 That younger man, as I have already told, was found 

 in the person of Lord Forester, who for twenty-eight 

 seasons hunted the Belvoir country in brilliant style. 

 His right-hand was Will Goodall, the greatest of a family 

 of great huntsmen, of whom my old friend and colleague 

 the late J. Nevill Fitt says : 



' The late Will Goodall ranked quite in the first class 

 as a huntsman, and probably no man ever earned a 

 higher or better-merited reputation in the vocation. He 

 stood very high in the estimation of Lord Henry Ben- 

 tinck, certainly the best judge of hunting matters of his 

 day. He said of him : — 



' " Goodall's chief aim was to get the hearts of his 

 hounds. He considered hounds should be treated like 

 women — that they would not bear to be bullied, to be 

 deceived, or neglected with impunity. For this end he 

 would not meddle with them in their casts until they 

 had done trying for themselves, and felt the want of him. 

 He paid them the compliment oi going to fetch them ; he 

 never deceived or neglected them ; he was continually 

 cheering and making much of his hounds. If he was 

 compelled to disappoint them by roughly stopping them 

 off a sucking bitch or a dying fox at dark, you would 

 see him, as he had got them stopped, jump off his horse, 

 get into the middle of his pack, and spend ten minutes 



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