i6o GOOD SPORT 



Finch, Mr. H. C. Bentley, Mr. H. R. Finch, 

 Mrs. Burn, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Strawbridge, Mr. 

 and Mrs. A. E. Burnaby. 



Hounds started by rousing a leash of foxes in 

 Owston Wood running hke wildfire in covert, 

 emerging with the chosen one on the Knossington 

 side, doubling back again to the big wood after 

 making a short ring. Driving him into the little 

 wood, they slipped away again from the Withcote 

 end of covert, along the gully up to Launde, carry- 

 ing a faint line into Prior's Coppice. A brace of 

 foxes were afoot in the last-named covert, and with 

 the chosen one Freeman scored a good hunt of over 

 an hour, before they pulled him down, stiff as a 

 hedge-stake, near to Lady Wood, which forms a 

 link with the larger woods of Owston. It was quite 

 a good day's sport, the greater part of it being over 

 the best of the Cottesmore country, good-scenting 

 ground and perfect riding ground, which could not 

 be improved upon even if it could be equalled. 



The Lowther family can claim over sixty years 

 of Cottesmore mastership, and were all houndsmen, 

 the present Earl's ancestors breeding the best of 

 their day, whose blood was sought after by the 

 kennels of the Dukes of Beaufort and Rutland, the 

 Earls of Fitzwilliam and Yarborough. When Lord 

 Lonsdale was elected in 1907 to the mastership of 

 the Cottesmore, succeeding Mr. Evan Hanbury, he 

 strengthened the kennel with purchases of the best 

 blood of the day. The opportunity came with the 

 dispersal of Mr. Reginald Corbet's beautiful South 

 Cheshire bitches, fifteen and a half couple of which 

 were purchased by Lord Lonsdale, who, after seeing 

 them hunt, considered they were worth any money for 

 a country like the Cottesmore. The top of this entry 

 were War-cry ('06), by Warwickshire Sampson from 



