280 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1876 



Armlet, Ajax, Abbess, Artless, and Aspen by name ; and 

 Herald, a son of the Belvoir Senator, sired a good litter 

 from Sempstress, who was by Burton Saladin. A nice 

 two couples from Novice by Belvoir Saffron were also put 

 forward, and Holderness Farmer, by the Duke of Rutland's 

 Falstaff, was also represented. 



There was a good working lot of two and a half couples 

 by Belvoir Why-not out of Vocal entered in 1876, and 

 Aider sired a hard-running fox-hound in Vamper, out of 

 Virgin, a daughter of Random. Ambrose, the Belvoir 

 Drummer, Saffron, and Warrior, the Grove Reginald (a 

 son of Belvoir Rubicon), Mr. Lane-Fox's Racer, and Lord 

 Coventry's Ranger, were also registered. The latter goes 

 back through Grove Dreadnaught to Mr. Foljambe's old 

 sort. Banker, by Brutus out of Actress, and Grafton, by 

 Glider out of Novice, were hard runners put forward in 

 1877 ; and the best of the last entry bred by Nimrod Long- 

 were Agnes's puppies by Brutus, who invariably sired good 

 hounds, and the two couple by Ambrose out of Virgin, 

 Vender, Venus, Vanish, and Vestris by name. 



Ambrose was also the sire of Vestris's good litter 

 entered in 1879 ; Lictor, a son of Proctor and Linnet, also 

 being strongly represented, while Lord Coventry's Rambler 

 sired a good litter of Guilty's. 



Acton and Ajax, by Actor out of Stately, put forward 

 in 1880, were both good dogs, and both afterwards became 

 stallion hounds ; Hostile had a litter by Ambrose ; and 

 there were good hounds by Lord Coventry's Rambler (who 

 goes ])ack through Lord Fitzhardinge's Collier to the 

 Comrade line, so dear to Lord Henry Bentinck). Belvoir 

 Fallil)le, Milton Reveller, Ringwood, and Rhymer, and 

 Holderness Lexicon. 



The pick of the fourteen couples put forward in 1881 

 was Dainty's litter by the famous Belvoir Weathergage, 

 one of the most successful of modern sires. Will Dale 

 speaks most highly of him, and is the first to acknowledge 

 the benefit the Brocklesl)y pack derived from his blood. 

 Frank Gillard considered Weathergage, who comes of the 



