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The stallion hounds used during the next ten years 

 included Lord Fitzwilliam's Flambeau and Jason ; Sir 

 Tatton Sykes's Woodman, a descendant of Brocklesby 

 Ferryman ; the South Wold Statesman, who was a grand- 

 son of Mr. Osbaldeston's Tarquin ; the Belvoir Plunder, 

 Contest, and Craftsman, the first by Mr. Osbaldeston's 

 Pontiff, and the other two by his Chorister ; Mr. Meynell's 

 Nathan ; Lord Harewood's Twister and Pillager ; Sir 

 Richard Sutton's Watchman, whose sire, Mr. Chute's 

 (Hampshire) Larkspur, was of the Duke of Richmond's 

 best blood ; the Belvoir Roderick, who was by the Bad- 

 minton Roderick ; Lord Lonsdale's Charon, in whose veins 

 ran Lord Fitzwilliam's and Mr. Osbaldeston's best strains ; 

 and Mr. Foljambe's Piper, who, being by Mr. Osbaldeston's 

 Piper, goes back to Lord Scarborough's best sort. 



Sanguine, a Ijitch who had a litter of puppies by tlie 

 South Wold Statesman, had been given by Smith to Mr. 

 George Pelham when he hunted that country, and he 

 brought her back to Brocklesby when he gave the country 

 up ; and in 1826 there was a litter by Reveller out of 

 Lord Harewood's Midnight, whose sire Rubens was by 

 Brocklesby Bowman out of a daughter of Mr. Chaworth's 

 Rifler ; another of Lord Harewood's bitches. Graceful, of 

 Lord Fitzwilliam's, Sir Bellingham Graham's, and Mr. 

 Ward's best strains, had a litter by Rector the same year. 

 Sir Tatton Sykes's Brilliant, chiefly of Lord Middleton's 

 blood, who was given Smith by Carter in 1828, was too 

 lame to hunt, having been ridden over, l)ut he sired a 

 good litter of puppies out of Flourish. 



Mr. Osbaldeston's Rambler and Prodigal, who were 

 used in 1829, came of Lord Lonsdale's and Lord Vernon's 

 strains, and Sir Tatton Sykes's Richmond came from Lord 

 Middleton's kennels, and of the same blood as Sir Tatton 

 Sykes's Brilliant. 



Owing to the ravages of distemper in 1829, Lord 

 Yarborough had to appeal to his brother masters of hounds 

 for assistance, and so obtained twenty-two and a half 

 couples of hounds from the best kennels of the day, many 



