HUNTS AND THEIR HISTORY 143 



pack, but to reduce the standard and increase the 

 bone." 



But on the story of this hunt I will not dwell 

 further, for it was my pleasure and privilege to write 

 the history of the Belvoir Hunt, and in that volume 

 I have gathered together all that I was able of the 

 history of the pack. Besides, the present book deals 

 with the past only in its bearing on the present. But 

 the Belvoir sport and the Belvoir pack are now what 

 they have always been. It has been the congenial 

 task of the present Master, Sir Gilbert Greenall, and 

 his huntsman, Ben Capell, to carry on the pack in 

 a manner worthy of its great traditions. It was no 

 easy task for the one to succeed Masters so popular 

 and respected as the Duke of Rutland and his son 

 the late Lord Edward Manners, or for Capell to follow 

 a huntsman whose skill in the science of hunting 

 was only surpassed by his tact and judgment in the 

 kennel. Frank Gillard completed the work of his 

 predecessors, and when he left Belvoir he left a pack 

 which could hardly be improved upon. To have 

 bred such hounds as Stainless, Weathergage, Gambler, 

 Dexter, and others less well known but almost equally 

 good, was to establish a name as a breeder that will 

 not soon be eclipsed. 



The Belvoir Hunt, then, and the Belvoir kennel 

 flourish as of old. The good hunt horses are worthy 

 of the hounds, for no servants are better mounted 

 than Capell and his whippers-in, and as for the sport, 

 it was only a week ago as I write that the Belvoir 

 hounds ran from Buckminster to Woodwell Head 

 and so round to Stapleford, repeating and indeed 

 improving on a famous hunt of some seven years 

 back. Now, as of old, the Belvoir hounds offer sport 

 varied, brilliant and satisfactory, and draw the best 



