THE HISTORY OF THE BELVOIR HUNT 



had have been good workers, full of drive and with plenty 

 of tongue, and they can use their noses ; what we have by 

 Glancer are all wonders in their work and ' hard drivers." 

 The following are Belvoir sires that have been used by this 

 kennel since 1878 — Brusher, Struggler, Fallible, Guardian, 

 Templar, Founder, Wenlock, Denmark, Weathergage (the 

 best of blood), Dashwood, Syntax, Procter, Glancer, Sham- 

 rock, Dryden, Grappler, Forecast, Discount, Gordon, Harlequin, 

 Dolphin, and Delegate. T. Smith of the Bramham Moor, 

 in a particularly useful letter, which the reputation of his pack 

 makes very important, tells me that while " we have not a 

 great deal of Belvoir blood in the present pack, they trace 

 back a good deal into Belvoir blood," a fact which some of 

 the foregoing correspondence will make plain to us. After 

 narrating some of their various fortunes and misfortunes with 

 Belvoir blood, he says of the descendants of Discount, " they 

 are all good in work, capital noses, with plenty of drive and 

 stout." The Bramham Moor, indeed, in 1862 came back a 

 good deal to Belvoir blood, for Mr. Lane Fox got a couple of 

 dogs in a draft which were very much used in the kennel, 

 viz., Lucifer, by Belvoir Fairplay — Belvoir Rapture, and 

 Rocket, by Belvoir Rallywood. Pastime and Fuse, too, were 

 capital in their work, and have a great many descendants in 

 the Bramham kennel at the present time. The celebrated 

 lines of Stormer, 1 864, and Senator (Cooper's favourite hound) 

 were also had recourse to with good results. My friend, Mr. 

 Scarth Dixon, than whom there is no sounder judge of horse 

 or hound, and who has written a delightful book called In the 

 North Countree, which is full of sporting lore, writes to me 

 thus, " About Belvoir Weathergage, I think his blood has 

 done wonders, and I look upon him as one of the foremost 

 fox-hounds of all time." In the kennels of the Badsworth, 

 where, as the huntsman Grant truly says, they do not keep 

 any bad hounds, they have used the Belvoir blood with 

 almost uniform success. 



There is no hunt which has had more attention paid for a 

 length of time to the breeding of the hounds than Lord 

 Middleton's, and Grant, his huntsman, gave me some in- 



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