THE CHACE. 
the other, two hours and fifty minutes without a cast. 
Only two horses carried their riders throughout the 
first run, and only one went to the end of the second ; 
both foxes were killed, and every hound was present 
at the death of each. We may venture to say, had 
the two runs we have alluded to taken place within 
the last few years, this superiority in the condition of 
the hounds over the horses would by no means have 
been maintained. 
We wish we could gratify such of our readers as are 
sportsmen with the date and origin of our best packs of 
fox-hounds, as well as the names and character of their 
owners ; but our limits will not allow us to go into 
much detail. Perhaps the oldest fox-hound blood in 
England at this time is to be found in the kennel of the 
Earl of Lonsdale, at Cottesmore. The Noels, whom 
this family succeeded, were of ancient standing in the 
chace ; and the venerable peer himself has now super- 
intended the pack for nearly fifty years, with a short 
interregnum of three or four years, when Sir Gilbert 
Heathcote had them. 
Lord Yarborough's kennel can likewise boast of very 
old blood, that pack having descended, without interrup- 
tion, from father to son for upwards of one hundred and 
fifty years. 
The hounds, late Mr. Warde's, sold to Mr. Horlock 
a few years since for two thousand guineas, claim a high 
descent, having much of the blood of Lord Thanet's and 
Mr. Elwes's packs, which were in the possession of the 
