HOUND BREEDING. 27 



?nan^s Grasjiiere '98, a hound of a remarkable 

 litter — " Grappler, Grasmere, Grasper, Gladsome, 

 and Glimmer " — probably the best that has been 

 bred since the formation of the Harrier Stud 

 Book. Grasmere won the Champion Cup at 

 Peterborough in 1902, and has twice been second 

 in the Stallion Hound Class, which his litter 

 brother Grappler won in 1901, besides being in the 

 winning couples on two occasions. He is a beautiful 

 Belvoir tan hound, standing on the best of legs 

 and feet, and is well under the 21 inch standard. 

 In the pedigrees of nearly all the best foxhound 

 blood in the Harrier Stud Book there appears Sir 

 George Brooke's Woodman '92, by Belvoir Grappler 

 '85, and this blood, mated with that of Col. Aik- 

 man's Dervish F.S., has given very good results, 

 one instance being Gaslight's litter, as will be seen 

 on reference to Grasmere's pedigree, and there are 

 others that might be mentioned to prove the good 

 results obtained by combining these two strains. 



Col. Aikmans Gladsome '98 is another of 

 the famous litter I have just referred to, and the 

 winner of the Champion Cup at Peterborough in 

 1899. Gladsome was a beautiful bitch, a rare 

 worker, and bred some almost, if not quite, as good 

 as herself. 



Col. Aikmaii s Hotspur '01 was the champion 

 dog hound at Peterborough in 1904, and he, again, 

 stands well under the 21 inch standard. Hotspur 



