58 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



up to the Peterborough standard. Mr Hardy 

 would probably be the first to acknowledge Belvoir 

 the source of many successes, and all the four 

 strain to that kennel. The " top dog " of the 

 quartette was Waverley/ placed second by the judges 

 for champion honours to Mr George Fitzwilliam's 

 pied-coloured Rector ; and the Meynell hound has 

 undoubtedh^ all the size, quality, and style one 

 hopes to find in a stallion hound. Waverley and 

 his litter brother, Warner — also one of the team — are 

 by Belvoir Warlock (1906), a son of Belvoir Stormer 

 (1899), son of Belvoir Dexter (1896), and their dam 

 Promise was a daughter of Trader, a rare stamp of 

 Meynell hound in appearance and pedigree, typical 

 of the sort occupying the benches in Charles Lead- 

 ham's time. The grandsire of Trader was Warwick- 

 shire Trampler, from whom he derived elegance 

 of outline ; and his dam combined the blood of 

 Meynell Colonel and Belvoir Weathergage, who did 

 much for hounds at the end of the last century. 



Waverley is a grand, upstanding hound, massive 

 in appearance, gay in carriage, with a noble head 

 and generous countenance. It is not often we 

 meet so big a hound, standing well on the best of 

 feet and legs, with a rib measurement of 334 inches. 

 The muscles stand out on his forearm like those of 

 a prize fighter in hard training, whilst there is the 

 stamp of Belvoir on his white neck and shoulders. 

 The roundness of feet, look like wearing, as did 

 those of his grandsire Stormer, who stood " plumb " 

 right into his twelfth season. If we were tempted 

 to dip into the fashionable Belvoir blood for no 

 other reason than its qualities of durability, it 

 would be practising economy ; for, like high-class 



^ Meynell Waverley won the Champion Cup at Peterborough, next year, 

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