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Plymouth would give 700 gs. for a hunter, and in the 

 sixties Mr. Chaplin's hunters brought such long 

 prices as 400 gs., 350 gs., and 300 gs., while 

 fourteen others realised over 100 gs. each. When Lord 

 Henry Bentinck gave up the Burton in 1862 his 

 hunters brought £12,^^61, the sale taking place on the 

 same day as that appointed for the first horse show 

 held at the Agricultural Hall, at Islington, under the 

 late Mr. Sidney's management, and in the course of 

 the afternoon that gentleman entered the arena to 

 announce that the first three horses sold by Lord 

 Henry had passed into the hands of Mr. Chaplin 

 for ;^iooo, and he urged his hearers to note the fact 

 by way of bearing in mind what could be made out 

 of hunter breeding. It may be added that at Mr. 

 James Hall's Holderness sale the sum of 400 gs. was 

 given for a hunter. 



At the beginning of the year 1899, to return to 

 the hound sale proper, no little excitement was roused 

 at the news that Mr. Austin Mackenzie, who was then 

 giving up the Woodland Pytchley, had sold his 

 pack of about fifty couples for ;^5000, the Marquis of 

 Worcester taking the dog hounds at ;^2000, and Mr. 

 Wroughton the bitches at ;^30oo. In the November 

 of 1900, when the North Cornwall hounds were sold 

 at Aldridge's, sixteen couples realised from 8 gs. to 

 2| gs. a couple, while in the June of the following 

 year Mr. Bathurst on giving up the Eggesford country 

 parted with thirty-one and a half couples of entered 

 hounds for 660 gs., twelve brood bitches and puppies 

 for 370 gs., and eleven and a half couples of unentered 

 hounds for 155 gs., making a total of 1185 gs., Mr. 

 Dun Waters giving 150 gs. for one and a half couples 

 and bitches. 



