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on many occasions have done the chstance without 

 the semblance of a check. The horse, however, 

 that can catch the Belvoir on a quick-scenting day 

 in this country has yet to be foaled, though up-to- 

 date hunters are bred on racing lines. This is only 

 one more instance of the marvellous construction 

 of the foxhound, possessing the speed and the 



Mr. R. Clayton Swan, Ex-M.F.H. 



endurance to tire three horses, the one measuring 

 24 inches at the shoulder, the other 64 inches. 



Looking back to the annals of the Belvoir as 

 recorded by the late Rev. John Welby, one of the 

 finest horsemen of his day in the Sixties and 

 Seventies, who left a volume of memoirs, dedicated 

 to the sixth Duke of Rutland, we find some interest- 

 ing Coston covert records. In 1863 when Frank 

 Gillard, the subsequently famous huntsman, was 

 riding second whipper-in to James Cooper, the 

 covert for a season was in disgrace owing to 



