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him is due the introduction of the Belvoir Guider 

 (1851) blood into the Blackmore Vale kennels, and 

 in the year 1860 no less than six and a half couples 

 of Guider's offspring appeared among the entry. 

 Of these, three and a half couples were bred by 

 Lord Portsmouth and came to Mr Digby in a 

 draft. Belvoir Guider, which had been much used 

 in the home kennels, was by Mr Drake's Duster, 

 and through his dam Gamesome (1845) strained 

 back through Rasselas (1831) and Saladin (1813), 

 both of which hounds were much used at Belvoir, 

 to Dancer, which sired every hound entered in the 

 old Belvoir kennels in the year 1796. 



To Mr Digby also is due the introduction of a 

 hound named Buby (1864), which appears to have 

 come to him in a draft from Sir W. W. Wynn, though 

 the kennel register is not very clear on this point. 

 Buby proved to be the mother of the modern pack, 

 nearly every hound that has made its mark in the 

 kennel going back in one or more strains to her. 

 Unfortunately of this hound there is no description, 

 but she appears among the entry in Mr Digby 's 

 kennel register of 1864, the year in which the 

 celebrated John Press came to him as huntsman, 

 and the season before his own resignation. 



It was in 1867, when Sir Bichard Glyn was 

 hunting the country with Press as his huntsman, 

 that Buby was mated with Lord Poltimore's 

 Voyager,^ son of the Duke of Beaufort's Voyager. 



^ As the descendants of Voyager appear so constantly throughout 

 the history of the Blackmore Vale pack, it is interesting to note that 



