34 GOOD SPORT 



animate the profession of which he was so famous 

 an exponent. 



And now let us imagine ourselves at the meet 

 to-day, under the mastership of Captain Frank 

 Forester, a hound-man of experience, who carried 

 the horn in Ireland when master of the Limerick, 

 and afterwards for the Old Berkshire. Leicester- 

 shire born, the master of Quorn has the advantage 

 of being a scion of a family long and honourably 

 connected with fox-hunting in the country, a grand- 

 son of Lord Forester, for some time master of the 

 Belvoir, and nephew to Colonel the Hon. Henry 

 Forester, so happily known to old Meltonians as 

 " The Lad," who rode gallantly when past three- 

 score and ten. " Captain Forester rides extremely 

 well-bred horses, most of them in the Stud Book ; " 

 so Captain Hughes Onslow, who hunts from Brauns- 

 ton in the Cottesmore country, tells us in an inte- 

 resting article which appeared in the Badminton 

 Magazine, December 1901. " He likes a somewhat 

 smaller horse than do most people in these parts, 

 and considers 15.3 to be the ideal height. Three of 

 his best at the present time are White Legs by 

 Romanof, Tranby by Tranby Croft, winner of the 

 Ladies' Purse at Melton, 1907, and Barnetby, a 

 beautiful chestnut horse, full of Stockwell blood, 

 who won the Foxhunters' Chase a couple of years 

 ago. White Legs and Barnety carried the master 

 every Monday and Friday with the Quorn last 

 season, and I greatly doubt if any two other horses 

 in England galloped as many miles or jumped as 

 many fences. Both are high-couraged horses and 

 need a bit of riding." 



The post of deputy to the Quorn during the 

 mastership of Lord Lonsdale, and afterwards Cap- 

 tain Burns Hartopp, was often very ably filled by 



