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GOOD SPORT 



The Belvoir Saturday is always an occasion for 

 which the pick of Leicestershire stables are reserved, 

 usually meaning a hunt in the Vale, the finest hunt- 

 ing arena in the world. On Saturday, November 14, 

 1908, the Belvoir fixture was Piper Hole, five miles 

 north of Melton, the weather being mild and the 

 ground dry. A keenly competitive field, repre- 

 sentative of three sporting shires, was as usual on 

 the scene, the division from Grantham coming by 

 special, arranged every Saturday by the veteran 

 Colonel Cotton Theobald, some- 

 times conveying fifty horses. 

 From Melton and all the other 

 hunting centres for Leicester- 

 shire, the favoured covert hack 

 is the indispensable motor-car, 

 for riding to covert is fast 

 becoming a memory of the 

 past. 



"^" ( ■ T" i ^ ^ ^ '^^^ assembled field included 



Lady Greenall, taking the com- 

 ape . mand in the absence of the 



master, Sir Gilbert Greenall, assisted by Mr. E. W. 

 Griffith, the best of field masters, Mrs. E. W. 

 Griffith, the Duchess of Newcastle, Elizabeth, 

 Countess of Wilton and Mr. A. V. Pryor, Lord 

 Hamilton of Dalzell, Lord Compton, Sir Keith 

 Eraser, Lady Milbanke, the Hon. Mrs. W. A. 

 Lawson, Mr. Cecil and Lady Lilian Grenfell, Major 

 and Mrs. Mann Thompson, the Hon. W. R. Wynd- 

 ham, Mrs. R. J. Elhson, the Hon. Mrs. J. Gretton, 

 Mrs. Preston, Miss Duncan, Miss Podemore, Captain 

 and Mrs. Arthur Smith, Mr. Algernon Turner, 

 Captain Steeds, Mr. E. H. Schwind, Mr. C. de 

 Paravicini, Mr. R. Milhngton Knowles, the Hon. 

 H. H. Scott, Mr. R. L. Eenwick, Mr. and Mrs. C, 



