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THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. 



[1890 



Harlequin and Heedless were by Lord Galway's Hark- 

 away out of Faithful, and so of that splendid strain of 

 blood, before mentioned, for which the Grove must thank 

 the Brocklesby Hymen of 1868. Harlequin was a splendid 

 fox-hound in every way, a hard worker, a hard driver, and 

 a perfect tiger at a fox. Many a time has the writer seen 

 him held by the second whipper-in while Dale broke up 

 his fox ; it was the only possible way to keep him off the 

 tattered brown jacket. As a stallion hound. Harlequin 

 was somewhat of a failure, as he so seldom got puppies. 

 Those he did get were, like himself, perfect fox-hounds and 

 very fierce at a fox. His sister Heedless was also a won- 

 derfully good hound, and a most valuable brood bitch, in 

 that she whelped that fine litter to Acrobat in 1893, of 

 which Harper was the pick. Lord Willoughby de Broke's 

 Stentor, and the home-bred Newsman and Smoker, also 

 sired hounds in the 1890 entry. The former brings in the 

 old Burton blood, for Stentor was by Bramham Sailor, a 

 son of Blankney Sailor, whose sire Burton Saladin was of 

 Lord Henry Bentinck's favourite strain. 



PEDIGREE OF HAELEQUIN, 1890. 



I Hai'binsrer 



Harlequin, 

 1890 



Lord Galway's 

 Harkaway ( 



^ Faithful, 1886 > 



VGayfly 



Belvoir 

 Glancer 



Fickle, 

 1881 



Ic 



\ Captive 



JLord Portsmouth's 

 aroline j Clinker 



i' Rachel 

 Belvoir Rallywood, by 

 Brocklesby Rallywood 

 Rarity 

 I Oakley Driver 

 '■Glory 

 / Weathergage 

 \ Golden 



Reginald 



Garland 



'Belvoir 

 Fallible 



^Rival, 1875 



/'Ambrose, 

 1870 



Roguish 



'Belvoir Senator 

 Adamant, a 

 gi'eat - great - 

 grand - daugh - 

 ter of Ranter, 

 1842 



Smoker was to the fore in the 1891 entry, and his 



