Some Noted Fox-honnds 



Royalty, by Rambler, by Senator-Remedy, by 

 Rallywood. He also inherited the blood of 

 Sir R. Sutton's Dryden and the Osbaldeston 

 Ranter. 



Weather-gage showed faultless excellence in 

 every part of a run, the first all-round. F. Gillard, 

 after an experience of nearly fifty years, considered 

 him the best he ever saw. His son Gambler out 

 of Gratitude beat him for looks, and was probably 

 the grandest hound ever bred at Belvoir. The 

 Weather-gage and Gambler families are very nume- 

 rous, their prowess in the field being so remark- 

 able there was a keen demand for their progeny. 

 Gambler was the grandson of Dexter, who had 

 as many as thirty-seven lines of the Osbaldeston 

 Furrier in him. Mr. George Osbaldeston once 

 brought out a pack of six-and-twenty couples 

 with the Pytchley all sired by Furrier. Again, 

 Woodman and Worcester of the Vale of White- 

 horse were lineal descendants of Weather-gage. 



This year the Belvoir commenced the season 

 with 65J couple of hounds, and the fresh blood 

 introduced amounted to 11 J couple. The sires 

 Donovan and Dexter are responsible for some 

 of the best of the pack. Stormer is one of the 

 oldest hounds in the pack at nine years, and is 

 one of the Weather-gage family. It is beyond 

 the scope of this work to further dwell on the 

 merits of ''Star" foxhounds; every pack has its 



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