FOXES FOXHOUNDS & FOX-HUNTING 



highest type of foxhound to-day is the Belvoir, 

 and the majority of well known packs are bred 

 and inbred to Belvoir sires, until the type and 

 quality of that famous kennel are to be found 

 throughout Great Britain. In the history of the 

 Belvoir, it is quite apparent that the smaller sized 

 foxhounds have always been predominant in the 

 past, and it is through them that the kennel has 

 achieved its greatness. The Belvoir and 



Brocklesby have been closely associated in hound 

 breeding, and The Druid tells us that Brocklesby 

 Rallywood, 1843, was the hound which virtually 

 made the Belvoir. Of him Goodall wrote, ' ' He 

 was a most beautiful short-legged dog, exceed- 

 ingly light of bone, but with beautiful legs and 

 feet. Rosebud, his dam, worked until she was 

 ten years old, and she was never known to do 

 anything wrong. They are perfection in their 

 work, and everlasting." 



Rallywood stood 23 inches in height, and 

 judging from a reproduction of a portrait of him 

 painted by J. Ferneley, he was a hound fit to 

 hunt and kill foxes in almost any sort of country. 

 The picture shows a light built, intelligent 

 looking hound, somewhat round in the quarters, 

 standing back at the knee, with fairly long pas- 

 terns, and round, compact feet. The Belvoir 

 pack benefitted greatly when Will Smith let Will 

 Goodall have Brocklesby Rallywood, and both 

 Sir R. Sutton and Lord H. Bentinck stated that 

 " his benefits to our packs have been almost in- 

 calculable." 



Rallywood was the sire of Willing (1857), dam 

 of Wonder (1864) and grand dam of Weathergage 

 (1876). Frank Gillard pronounced Weathergage 

 the best foxhound he ever saw in every part of a 

 hunt, and though the hound was flat sided, short 



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