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and Vaulter's dam was Mr. Austin Mackenzie's 

 Lightning, by Belvoir Game Boy ('84). Vaulter ('97) 

 was pronounced the best stalhon hound at Peter- 

 borough in 1899, a massive 24-inch hound with 

 beautiful quahty and Belvoir colouring. Girthing 

 31 inches round the heart when in hard condition, 

 he had good ribs, and weighed 79 lbs. Of him 

 Mr. T. F. Dale says in his history of the Badminton 

 Hunt, " Vaulter combines the Belvoir Weathergage 

 grafted on Blankney blood, and finds many of his 

 kin at Badminton, for of Blankney blood at its best 

 the Badminton kennel has many strains. Did not 

 Contest come from Lord Henry Bentinck to Bad- 

 minton, and please the eighth Duke greatly by his 

 work ? " 



Others with whom we renewed acquaintance 

 were Victor and Woldsman, winners at Peter- 

 borough; Rataplan and Rasselas, by Dexter, a 

 son of Belvoir Dexter, from Rapture, the old 

 champion badger-pied bitch. Then there was 

 Archer, a very nice dog by the Brocklesby 

 Auditor ; Diver and Discount, by Carmehte ; 

 Palafox, by Paradox ; and Comrade, the Duke's 

 favourite, a bitch by Counsellor ; fine dashing 

 hounds with the stamp of Belvoir on their legs 

 and feet, looking all over like carrying on the 

 fame of the kennel. 



The Duke of Beaufort had four horses in the 

 field for his own riding, all weight-carriers, the 

 covert-hack a long, low, snaffle-bridle chestnut doing 

 the twelve miles to the meet over hounds. The 

 hunter for the morning was a short-legged brown 

 horse ; and the pair in reserve for the afternoon 

 were Grey Skin, a big grey standing seventeen 

 hands, two inches, bought from Mr. Muntz, a fast 

 horse with top weight in the saddle, and Rathkeale, 



