MR G. SMITH-BOSANQUET'S PACK 127 



This arrangement terminated at the death of 

 Mr Smith-Bosanquet's father, and his accession to 

 the property at Broxbornebury, where during the 

 season of 1907-8, he estabhshed the hunt which 

 bears his name, buying drafts of hounds to start 

 a kennel. To-day every department is in satis- 

 factory working order, the following has more than 

 doubled its numbers and there is a large percentage 

 of young people keen to ride. After visiting a six- 

 days-a-week hunting establishment, with its eighty 

 couples of hounds in kennel and seventy hunt horses, 

 we envied the completeness which characterised 

 this two-days-a-week kennel, with its twenty-five 

 couples of hounds and stable of a dozen horses. 

 The kennels are constructed of wood and iron, 

 placed in the park near the fine seventeenth-century 

 mansion, most complete and healthy with hounds 

 looking in workman-like trim. Much might be said 

 wath regard to the advantages of these modern-day 

 kennels and their improved sanitary arrangements, 

 as compared with older establishments, where founda- 

 tions and drains are often a source of trouble. 

 Under the management of James Budd, who was 

 with Mr Smith-Bosanquet during his mastership 

 to the Cambridgeshire, a weight of experience has 

 been brought to bear, after fifty years in the service 

 of the chase. The strength of the pack is twenty- 

 four couples, which have been carefully drafted 

 for working qualities, throwing their tongue freely 

 in the deep woodlands. The last two entries 

 put on are quite satisfactory, wdth several couples 

 of nice young hounds bred on the right lines. 

 Amongst the drafts that have been purchased 

 are smart bitches from the Atherstone, which 

 look like doing the kennel good in the future, and 

 others from Lord Zetland's have proved themselves 



