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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, per- 

 fection — 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 alone might entitle him to be 

 selected among the celebrated twelve to be con- 

 sidered as a pillar of the hound stud book. There 

 is, however, something else to boast of to the 

 memory of Contest, as he was the sire of Harry 

 Ayris's favourite Cromwell, and the blood of the 

 latter runs through the Badminton, the Croome 

 particularly, through Lord Coventry's Rambler, and 

 it is also largely represented in the Quorn, besides, 

 as a matter of course, being mixed up in all the 

 Berkeley Castle pedigrees. Cromwell was bred 

 from at Berkeley Castle in the same sort of pro- 

 portion as Furrier was used by Osbaldeston, as the 

 entries during his lifetime show, and he was noted 

 for getting excellent workers. 



" The beautiful colours of the Senators may not 

 be due to Contest, as I think I have been told that 

 he was a grey-pied hound, and Cromwell was that 

 colour, as I have seen his skin. The goodness of 

 Contest, however, is explained in his noble owner's 



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