THE HISTORY OF THE BELVOIR HUNT 



Woods, you think it worth your while to go there again on 

 Tuesday, or whether you think it would be wiser to go over 

 to Aslackby Wood. Bulby Hall there is no chance, as Mr. 

 Beaumont told me his keepers had been busy rabbiting for 

 some time in it. After reading this, will you give me a line 

 as to what you intend to do ? If Aslackby Wood is the 

 first draw I can cut off miles. I fancy the scent was good 

 in the morning, bad in the middle of the day, and improved 

 in the afternoon, but, as you are aware, up wind and down 

 made all the difference. 



"Thos. Whichcote." 



In 1869 the Duke tells Cooper that "the Jockey Club 

 yesterday carried Lord Forester's resolution that no two- 

 year-olds are to run before the first of May," and Sir Thomas 

 Whichcote alludes to racing, of which it will be seen he had 

 no very high opinion. 



" Bute House, Campden Hill, 



"Kensington, W., May 30//^, 1869. 

 " Cooper, — 



" The Jockey Club yesterday carried Lord Forester's 

 resolution that no two-year-olds are to run before the first 

 of May." 



"AswARBY Park, 



''September igth, 1869. 

 " Cooper, — 



" I am much obliged for your letter. Wednesday will 

 suit me very well to see you and your pack. Ten o'clock 

 I conclude will be early enough. We had better first of all 

 sift Burton Gorse and then fall back upon the Burton 

 Plantations and Thorns. How will it be to appoint Haver- 

 holme for Friday ? Yesterday, as a friend of mine was 

 coming here in a fly from Sleaford, he saw a beautiful fox 

 walking about a field between this and Sleaford. I was 

 very sorry to read your report of the Duke. I trust he has 

 thrown off the attack and that he is able to follow up the 

 grouse. Pretender cut a sorry exhibition in the Leger. I 

 am told he never eat a feed of corn after his arrival in 



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