THE BROCKLESBY AND THE BELVOIR. 297 



1862 in return for tlie use of Lexicon the previous year, 

 and three and a half couples of puppies by him were put 

 forward. 



The Belvoir historian says that that pack owes its 

 excellence really to four sources, viz. Brocklesby Rally- 

 wood, Badminton Champion, Lord Sefton's Sultan, and 

 Mr. Drake's Duster. Mr. Osbaldeston's Furrier, as was 

 said before, was bred at Belvoir. 



The standard in Goosey's time was twenty-four inches 

 for dogs, and twenty-three for bitches, and in Goodall's 

 twenty-three and twenty-two inches respectively. 



This is Will Dale's appreciation of Belvoir blood — 



" I always maintained that no two packs hit together 

 so well as Belvoir and Brocklesby, or showed such a 

 family likeness. Rally wood's descendants, however remote, 

 always showed signs of their descent. The Weathergage 

 strain proved successful at Brocklesby, also Fencer. I 

 think that Weatherj^ase was one of the most wonderful 

 sires that ever existed ; his offspring were always good 

 workers, and the same of his son Gambler." Speaking 

 further of Rally wood, he says, " I could trace his good 

 qualities in the hounds I used years afterwards, showing 

 clearly how hounds strain back." 



The following list of Brocklesby sires used at Belvoir, 

 up to 1875, will show the inliuence Lord Yarborough's 

 hounds have had on that pack : — 



