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GOOD SPORT 



In or Over. 



sented it to my father, the late Rev. Edward 

 Bradley, better known as Cuthbert Bede, author of 

 " Verdant Green " ; and though not a follower of the 



chase, his pen contributed 

 many a note on hunting 

 lore and Belvoir Hunt 

 history. By the irony of 

 fate the Belvoir steeple- 

 chase meeting was estab- 

 lished over the stretch 

 of grass country below 

 Lenton Vicarage, just a 

 year after Mr. Heathcote's 

 death, and flourished for 

 over twenty years, much 

 of the success of the 

 management resting with 

 *' young" Mr. Thomas A. R. Heathcote, the eldest 

 surviving son of the late vicar. 



After crossing the road that runs between Lenton 

 and Ingoldsby, Gillson and the select division with 

 hounds had some stiffish fences to jump, for it is 

 a good bit of bullock-grazing country. Just below 

 Hanby, hounds hovered by the far-famed Lenton 

 Brook, over which they carried the line, and Gillson 

 '' had a go at it," landing with nothing to spare. 

 Two fields farther on they got off the grass on 

 to cold strong plough, and when near Sapperton 

 Wood were completely beaten by scent, after 

 making a six-mile point over a sporting line of 

 country, which pleased the riding division im- 

 mensely. 



It was said that something like three-and-twenty 

 years previously the Cottesmore had run this iden- 

 tical line of country, and on that occasion joined 

 forces with the Belvoir. 



