118 THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



The constitution of the pack — Mr. Barnard's 

 ENTRIES — Tarquin— Mr. Barnard's use of 

 OTHER KENNELS— Saffron — Mr. Spencer Lucy — 

 Mr. Henley Greaves. 



Mr. Barnard's The length of time during which Mr. Barnard held the 



en nes. reins of oflBce makes him an important factor in the 



history of the constitution of the pack. In the list of 



1838. entries for 1838, which is given under his name, there 

 appears only two Warwickshire sires, Woodman and 

 Dexter. Woodman was entered in 1831, and was by 

 the Duke of Beaufort's Workman out of the Warwick- 

 shire Brevity ; Dexter was entered two years later and 

 was by the Belvoir Rummager out of the Warwickshire 

 Daffodil. The sires from other kennels were Lord 

 Seagrave's Draco, Lord Scarborough's Rasselas, Mr. 

 Hall's Roderic, Mr. Whyndam's Cardinal, the Duke 

 of Grafton's Cromwell and Harrogate, Sir John 

 Cope's Comus, and Mr. Drake's Sultan. The Duke of 

 Grafton's blood is introduced among the dams in hia 

 Harmony and his Rival, and also in Ruby, by the 

 Duke's Rustic — his Rapid, who had been bought by 

 Mr. Granville as a two-year-old in 1837. 



1839. Woodman also appears in the list for 1839, being, 

 with Bluecap and Craftsman, the only representative 

 of the home kennels among the sires. Bluecap was 

 also entered in 1831. He possessed a strain of Mr. 

 Osbaldeston's, his sire being Bachelor, whom Mr. 

 Fellowes had got as a three-year-old and who was 



