Fox Hunting In The Shires PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V the hunts and their history Importance of the Huntsman--Increasing Difficulties of Hunting--Music and Pace of different Packs--The Quorn--Mr. Meynell--Lord Sefton--Nimrod's Comments--Mr. Osbaldeston--Tom Firr--Lord Lonsdale--Captain Burns-Hartopp--The Cottesmore--Sir William Lowther--Sir Richard Sutton--Lord Kesteven--Mr. Baird--Foundation of the Kennel--Mr. Evan Hanbury--Arthur Thatcher--Oakham as a Hunting Centre--The Belvoir--A Big Crowd--The Hunt Servants and their Horses--A Typical Day--History of The Pack--Successive Huntsmen--Belvoir Blood in Other Packs--Sir Gilbert Greenall and Capell--Brocklesby and Belvoir--Goodall and Gillard--Masters of the Belvoir--Society at the Castle--Deputy Masters--Lord Forester--Dukes of Rutland--A great County Hunt--Mr. Fernie's Hunt--The Country--The Division during Sir Richard Sutton's Mastership--Mr. Tailby--Some Hard Riders--The Billesdon--Sir Bache Cunard--Why Mr. Fernie's Fixtures are not Overcrowded--Big Studs the Exception--The Right Kind of Horse--Brooks in the Country--Notable Huntsmen trained in Mr. Fernie's Country--The Pack--The Pytchley--Mr. Naylor's Mastership--Squires, the Huntsman--Northamptonshire as a Hunting County--Mr. Meynell's Influence on Hunting--The First Earl Spencer--Dick Knight--Mr. Warde--His Horse " Solyman"--A Long Run--Lord Althorp--Later Masters--Sir Bellingham Graham--Mr. Osbaldeston--Mr. George Payne--Lord Chesterfield--"The Other Tom Smith"--Sir Francis Goodricke--A Hunting Pauper--Charles Payn--Colonel Anstruther Thomson--Conflicting Interests in a Hunting Country--Lord Spencer as Master--M. Brunetiere on English Sports--Sir Herbert Langham--Whyte-Melville on the Pytchley--The Woodland Pytchley--Early Masters--The Woodlands--The Atherstone--Mr....