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Duster, as Siren, the dam of Singer, was a daughter of his, and 

 Singer was the sire of Senator. The most important line of 

 the day is therefore due in a measure to the Drake Duster, 

 as it can well be said that every kennel in England has gone in 

 more or less for the Senator strain, and if there was anything 

 to complain about, it was a fear that too much of it might 

 be infused into some channels by way of in-breeding. However, 

 the oldest huntsmen, the late Jack Morgan amongst others, have 

 assured me that for dash and drive there has been nothing like 

 them, and it was a characteristic with all hounds straining from 

 the Belvoir Singer that they were veritable tyrants on the line of a 

 sinking fox, and savages at a death. There was a hound in Lord 

 Poltimore's called Woldsman, by Comus, out of a bitch nearly 

 sister in blood to Siren, and he had to be coupled up as soon as 

 possible at a kill, as he was not particular about mouthing another 

 hound in his fury; and two sons of his, afterwards with the 

 Bicester, and their descendants again, were just like him. 

 Another great descendant from the Drake Duster was the 

 Belvoir Guider, a son of the former, out of Gamesome, by 

 General. To Guider must be credited the foundation of Lord 

 Portsmouth's pack, as his Lincoln and a host of valuable bitches, 

 bred from in due course, gave to the Eggesford pack its high 

 reputation. Guider also left his mark with the Bramham Moor 

 and Sir Watkin Wynn's ; but his stock has not been so widely 

 distributed as the Senator's. Senator was entered in 1862, and, 

 like Duster, he was out of a bitch called Destitute, the dam also 

 of Render, and she was by Sir Richard Sutton's Dryden, by Lord 

 Henry Bentinck's Contest. Besides the field qualities noticed 

 above as belonging to the Senators, all are very beautiful hounds 

 that strain from that line. Very perfect necks and shoulders I 

 have ascribed to them, and they are invariably full of quality, 

 whilst their colours are, as a rule, perfection the Belvoir tan, and 

 hare-pied hue blended. 



I spoke of Lord Henry Bentinck's Contest in the above 

 remarks relating to the dam of Senator, and that relationship 



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