Fox-hunting Past and Present 



Mr. ]. Chaworth Musters, a Quorn master in his 

 day. His lordship considered Vanguard that he 

 bred in 1815 the best hound he had ever seen. 

 He was got by Lord Vernon's Vaulter-Traffic, 

 who was one of the pack purchased from Mr. 

 Corbet. Lord Middleton could boast of much 

 of Trojan's blood in his pack. He gave most of 

 them to Sir Tatton Sykes, and lent him to the 

 then Duke of Beaufort. This pack, however, 

 eventually went back to the eighth Lord Middle- 

 ton. Most of the Trojan blood, however, was 

 transmitted to the present pack at Birdsall through 

 Mr. Arkwright's Crony, by Lord Middleton's 

 Chanticleer of 1851. Thousands of hounds of 

 to-day are easily traceable to Trojan. Crony, the 

 great-grandam of Driver, was the corner-stone of 

 the Oakley pack ; she had the Vanguard blood in 

 her veins too. 



Celebrated hounds of the present day are far too 

 numerous to mention here. I have portraits before 

 me of two Peterborough champions in Tancred, 

 Warwickshire champion of 1896, and the Oakley 

 Dandy by Dancer out of Bonnylass, first prize 

 stallion foxhound of 1895 at Peterborough. 



I will now pass on to another epoch of the fox- 

 hound and his portrait gallery. This time the 

 champion was '^The Squire" Osbaldeston's Fur- 

 rier. This noted master considered there was no 



equal to his Furrier between 1820 and 1830. He 



no 



