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diary, as, if there was one particular favourite with 

 Lord Henry more than another, it was Contest, 

 considered by him to be the best of foxhounds in 

 any part of a run ; and, as in the case of Mr. 

 Corbet's Trojan, Contest was an extraordinary wall 

 and gate jumper. His blood can be traced to the 

 three good-looking sisters that made up the two 

 couples of the Warwickshire in the older bitch class 

 at Peterborough — namely, Factious, Fair Maid, and 

 Faultless, as Archibald, their sire, was out of a bitch 

 by Lord Coventry's Rambler. 



'' I have mentioned the Osbaldeston Furrier, the 

 Grove Barrister, the Drake Duster, the Burton Dori- 

 mont, the Belvoir Guider, the Belvoir Senator, the 

 Burton Contest, and the Berkeley Castle Cromwell 

 in this article as the most celebrated foxhounds to be 

 traced to throughout all records. This makes up 

 eight out of my proposed party of twelve ; and I 

 have no hesitation in giving as additions the Burton 

 Regulus and the Wynnstay Royal. It Avould be 

 impossible to enlarge too much upon the good such 

 hounds have done ; and it would be impossible to 

 say which of the two has influenced high breeding 

 most. Royal is represented to a large extent at 

 Belvoir, Badminton, Mr. Garth's, the Bramham 

 Moor, and numerous other kennels ; whilst the 

 Burton Regulus, besides adding much to the con- 



