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worked out to the eighth generation. Following 

 the same lines as his predecessors, he has maintained 

 the high traditions and characteristics of the pack, 

 and the kennel stands alone in having depended 

 entirely on its own breeding for sixty years, no 

 hounds having been purchased in that time, the 

 rule to breed only from the best workers being 

 strictly observed. The strength of the kennel to 

 hunt four days a week is the same as before, sixty- 

 five and a half couple, numbering 

 about twelve couple of stud hounds, 

 whose services are sought by more 

 than sixty other kennels. Sir Gilbert 

 Greenall further ensured his chance of 

 success as a hound-breeder by insti- 

 tuting an annual show and luncheon 

 for the Belvoir puppy walkers. These 

 gatherings arouse the greatest enthu- 

 siasm and the keenest competition 

 amongst those who walk the young 

 hounds. The result is that stronger 

 and larger entries are forthcoming, 

 and the kennel, full of young blood, 

 is in the zenith of vigour. 



The Belvoir in 1899 had a great entry ; in fact, 

 Brooksby said of it in a preliminary article to the 

 Field before the judging, " The young entry is 

 almost a pack of itself, so full is it of likely brood 

 bitches and probable stallion hounds. Breeders 

 will hke to know from what special sources these 

 results have been obtained, and wall in many cases 

 obtain the strains that are as hberally open to them 

 as ever. Ben Capell, Sir Gilbert Greenall's hunts- 

 man, would seem to be working on much the same 

 lines as have been heretofore so successful, viz., to 

 go as little as possible outside the proven Belvoir 



Ben Capell. 



