crane's TRIAL OF YOUNG HOUNDS. 119 



Taylor's Rivers, of the same litter with the dam of 

 Gameboy and Gallant, there were nine in the whole, 

 all remarkably good winded and speedy, though coarse 

 looking hounds, they were called the ' Royal Family,' 

 from their excellence. However this litter were most 

 of them to have been drafted on account of their 

 plainness, but Crane begged they might be tried up 

 a trailed scent before they went, and in running this 

 trail scent the whole family distinguished themselves 

 in a very remarkable manner." 



Many matches are on record of hounds running a 

 trailed scent, one especially over Newmarket Heath. 

 And in or about the year 1808 or 1809, the late Mr. 

 Digby Legard, who at that time hunted the country 

 now occupied by Sir Tatton Sykes, made a match to 

 run two couples of hounds four miles, against two 

 couples of Mr. Osbaldeston's, on a trailed scent, which 

 he won in the neighbourhood of Malton. The trail 

 used was a horse rug which had been placed under a 

 tame fox for two or three days. The following extract 

 was copied from a Cork paper. 



"I will back for two hundred sovereigns, hounds 

 from mine own kennel, running a drag scent, to beat 

 any horse carrying lOst., four miles, over a fair sporting 

 country ; and mind you, by beating I do not mean a 

 head or a length, but the hounds shall be at the finish 

 two hundred and forty yards before the horses; or 

 in plain words the hounds shall distance the horses. My 

 money is lodged in the Provincial bank, Cork, where 

 it shall lie fourteen days to be covered, and where the 

 challenger's name and address shall be learned on that 

 being done." 



We will now suppose the new entry to be recovered 



