140 FOX-HUNTING IN THE SHIRES 



Champion and Topper, to which many of the famous 

 hounds of Brocklesby and Belvoir can be traced back, 

 through Songstress. 



From 1 79 1 the pack has been hunted by a succes- 

 sion of able huntsmen who remained long at their 

 posts, Newman, Shaw, Goosey, Goodall, Cooper, 

 Gillard and Capell having each hunted the pack in 

 turn from 1791 to 1903. Goosey laid the foundation 

 of the pack, Goodall brought in the famous Rally- 

 wood, and Gillard carried the work to perfection. 

 There is scarcely a pack in England which has not 

 Belvoir blood, and the most noted of these hounds 

 can trace their pedigree back through Weathergage 

 to Rallywood, and so back to the famous Furrier 

 that was drafted from Belvoir to the Quorn in Mr. 

 Osbaldeston's time, but whose descendant. Rally- 

 wood, a gift from Brocklesby, brought the Furrier 

 blood back into its natal kennel, to the lasting benefit 

 of the English fox-hound. The result of this good 

 work of the past is that the present Master, Sir 

 Gilbert Greenall, and his huntsman, Capell, will show 

 you sport to-day with the finest pack of hounds which 

 ever hunted a fox. 



The Brocklesby and the Belvoir hounds are to all 

 intents of the same race nowadays. They have had 

 the advantage of being kept by two great families, 

 the Pelhams and the Manners, for a hundred and 

 fifty years or more. Our interest in the antiquity 

 of hunting may tempt us to trace the existence of 

 hounds kept for hunting back into a dim past, but 

 the real origin of the modern fox-hound, as he exists 

 to-day in the most famous kennels, may be traced 

 to two men, Will Smith of the Brocklesby and Goosey 

 of the Belvoir. These two men took the material 

 that existed ; they bred to a type, and made that 



