The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-23
FOX HOUNDS.
Notable Insfatices Of Their ExfraOr-
binary Speed.

Notable Ins18tices Of Their EXfraOE-
binary speed.
The Turf, Field and Farm of recent
date contains the following:
A friend in Virginia wrote US some |
weeks ago inquiring if there was anv
well-authenticated records of the time /
made by hounds over a given distance |
of ground. We remember seeing in an |
old volume of the English Sporting Mag |
azine an account of several races against /
time by English hounds, but did not |
know exactly in what volumes to look /
for it, when luckily we applied to Mr..
Titus Evers, who, like Mr. Frederick |
Ryer, Is Versed in the whole range of |
sporting literature. He at once refer |
red us to an exceedingly interesting ar
ticle. over the signature of " Cecil" in |
Bells Life, January l, 1860, from which |
we condense the following: Mr.. Newell |
matched two fox hounds, Richmond and !
bitch whose name is not given, against |
Mr.. Barry's two hounds, Blue Cap and
WantOn, to run over the Beacon course, |
at New Market, for 500 gt1ineas. Mr.
Barry's hounds were trained on Tiptree
Heath, Essex. The trainer was the ia
nous huntsman, VIII Train His meth
cd with the hounds was to run fex drag
of eight or ten miles three times a week,
| upon the turf, during two months, feed
ing them upon oatmeal, and milk and
! sleeps trotters. The dogs before start
| ing were in admirable condition. Mr..
! MeynelPs hounds were fed while in train
ing entirely upon legs of mutton, and
were also in high condition, and the odds
were seven to four upon them at starting,
| chiefly from the prOprietOr's high sport
! ing character. The match was run on the
thirtieth of September by laying the ac-
cUstOmed drag from the rubbing-house
/ at Newmarket town end to the rubbing
house at the starting post of the the Bea-
con course, the four hounds being imme-
! diately laid on the scent. Mr.. Barry's
Blue Cap came in first, and his Wanton
very near second, the four miles being
run by these hounds in few seconds
above eight minutes, much about the
time in which an ordinary country plate
horse would run the same distance, car
rying 112 or 119 pounds. Mr.. Meynell's
hound was beaten by about 120 yards,
and the bitch not placed, as she did not
run her course through. Three score
hOrsemen started with the hounds, and
only twelve lived through the run, VIII
Crane, mounted on the winner of a
12-stOne or king s-plate horse called Rib,
being twelfth in the race.
From Daniels Rural Sports, Blaine
gives the following extract: A fox hound
bitch, bred by Col Thornton, proved her
self superior to either Blue Cap or Wan
ton. Merkin was challenged to run any
hound of her wear, five miles, over New
market, giving 220yards. for ten thousand
guineas; or to give Madcap one hundred
yards, and run the same distance, for five
thousand guineas. Merkin had run a trial
of four miles, and performed it in seven
minutes and half a second!
Cecil makes a remark in the cOmmuni.
cation, from which we have given the
: above facts, which we commend to the
: consideration of certain masters of hounds
we wOt of in the south, who are too am
5 bilious to own the fastest hound, even al
5 the expense of other qualities 1t is this
f " In all packs there are certain hounds
g which evince more speed over the OpeI
4 than the companions, and in this in
= stance their speed is so conspicuous tina
/ it becomes necessary to draught them.
: The late John S. Skinner parted will
: three magnificent English hounds, i'm
r ported by the late Commodore Stockton
t from the kennel of Sir Harry Goedreeke
only for the reason that they were to-
/ fast for the Baltimore pack, which wa
: one of the best of its day in the Who'll
Il |
# James Caldwell, at Greenbrier Whit
b Sulphur, who used them for drivin
/ deer, and they were too fast for thai
IS which is best done by the slOwest an
L noisiest hounds.
e Since writing the above we find i
It Land and Water mention made of rae
II between hounds which occurred some
S, where in Cumberland, England, a fe,
K months since. Col. S, d. Bruce, who
5, a first-rate judge of pace in race horse
1s but who has never hunted in England
t. is inclined to be skeptical, but we VIII
re have hunted in England accept it at ver
st near the truth. The statement is tn;
s, the competing hounds completed scve
lg miles across a rough country on a drs
u in seventeen minutes.
5y While on the subject of hounds al
an hunting we will state that we had Wis
er early in the week from Mr.. Mayo,
m WestmOreland, one of the best huntiI
On counties in Virginia, where the passiC
fer the chase and the hounds as we
have survived the calaInities OF the wa
The hunting there this season has be-
=, exceptionally fine, but the huntsmt
4 have kept it all to themselves and ha
not taken the trouble to report the
=; runs for the benefit of the outside wOrl
" and so it is with the great body of fl
hunters throughout the south indee
- if it were not for such friends as " Ell
~ Alice" q PiOus Jeems." CT. G.. T."
u Roanoke, and Captain A." of F'a
~ qUier, one might suppose that all the Fl
ON hunters and all the hounds of the sou
'or had taken their departure for the hap