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Belvoir in 1850 by Will Goodall. Wonder's dam 

 was Willing, a noted bitch by llallywood, son of 

 Brocklesby Rallywood or Vaulter family. Both, it 

 will be seen, trace to the same source through a 

 whole decade of chase history down to the great 

 Furrier several times, and then to a bitch called 

 Comely, by Lord Monson's Conqueror out of Red 

 Rose, who lived about the year 1785. The kennel 

 was full of Senator blood, so that Woodman and 

 Warrior — the sons of Wonder- Susan — two of this 

 season's entry, were just sufficiently far enough 

 away from that strain to give Gillard a chance to 

 still further accumulate this famous blood so full of 

 Duster, without inbreeding. It was no easy task 

 to breed Belvoir hounds, and one cannot help 

 admiring the judgment with which all the strains 

 are picked up to such standard points as the Drake 

 Duster (1844) or Osbaldeston Furrier. No animal 

 of any sort whatever has been bred to in the same 

 persistency as can be traced to Osbaldeston Furrier. 

 He was the best hound of his day in the opinion of 

 all hound-breeders. Warrior, it will be seen, was 

 quite a Belvoir bred hound, as his pedigree does not 

 get away far, and is confined to Belvoir, Brocklesby, 

 the Grove, and the Drake Duster, whose dam was 

 got by Factor, the son of JNIr. SaviUe's Carver. So 

 in Warrior there were two hits to Duster, three to 

 Carver, two to RaUywood, and two to Senator. 

 Warrior eventually sired Weathergage, 1876, who 

 sired Gambler, 1884. 



The strength of the kennel when Gillard came 

 was sixty-seven couple, but was reduced by five 



