Related article: who watched the proceedings were
the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis
of Zetland, Lord Southampton,
Lord Orkney, Lord Annaly, Lord
Yarborough, Sir Gilbert Greenall,
Sir H. H. Langham, Sir William
Curtis, Colonel Anstruther Thom-
son, Captain Browning, the Rev.
Cecil Legard, Colonel Jago, the
Hon. Douglas Pennant, Messrs.
E. P. Rawnsley, C. W. Wicksted,
G. Lane Fox, W. H. Dunn,
F. Ames, W. Coryton, Yorke-
Scarlett, Selby Lowndes, R. Hill,
J. Watson, F. Slingsby, J, Har-
greaves, R. Corbet, jun.. Hey wood
Lonsdale, Merthyr Guest,* Baker
White, Owen Williams, C. M.
Prior, E. E. Barclay, Cazenove,
Usher, Wilson, Fernie, Seymour,
Hulkes, Fullerton, Wharton,
Wroughton, Preston and Raw-
lence.
The three couples class was this
year eliminated from the pro-
gramme, Meloxicam 7.5 Tablets and, I venture to think,
rather happily, for as entries have
increased, judging has been pro-
longed to an inconveniently late
hour, while the pack which won
in the two couples class for either
dogs or bitches were nearly cer-
tain to win in the three couples,
unless they had to make up their
team with a very inferior couple.
Still, with these two classes out
of the card the judging lasted
some time. Some of the critics
thought that the young hounds
were wanting in class, and cer-
tainly they scarcely seemed up to
the standard of some previous
years. Meloxicam Buy Mr. Wroughton, as mas-
ter of the Pytchley and owner of
the Woodland Pytchley, now
under the management of Lord
Southampton, held a somewhat
strong hand, and few would find
fault with his Goblin and Merlin,
which carried off the first prize for
the best couple of unentered
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hounds. Without being hounds
of very great substance they had
at least fair bone, which they
carried well down. The Oakley
couple took the second prize, and
when it came to picking out the
best hound for the special prize
it was found that there were no
fewer than three Despots running,
coming from the Atherstone, Duke
of Beaufort's and the North
Cheshire, but the victory rested
with the Oakley Guardsman, a
very nice hound with plenty of
substance and fashion. It was,
however, when the entered hounds
came into the ring that an im-
provement was visible, eight packs
competing. The Warwickshire
were the winners with Tuscan,
Turncoat, Tudor and Ganger.
Mr. G. P. Ely Stan Evans, one of
the joint masters of the Cam-
bridgeshire, and Mr, W. E. Rig-
den, judged the doghounds, and
after luncheon Mr. E. Lycett
Green, Master of the York and
Ainsty, and Mr. P. A. W. Carnegy
looked after the bitches.
The unentered class was a
strong one of fourteen, and the
Oakley carried off the first prize
with Dowager and Hopeful. One
of the couples was slightly roach-
backed and had sustained some
injury to one of her feet, but this
was not a bar to her success. The
Master of the Southdown showed
a wonderfully nice couple, but the
one thing against them was their
colour, that being very light ; and
although in the hill countries.
where foxes are followed on foot,
these badger pied hounds are pre-
ferred as being easy to see at a
distance, they are not in favour in
more fashionable districts. There
were no better necks or shoulders,
however, in the show, and they
ran close not only the winners,
but also the Warwickshire couple,
which were placed second. The
special prize for the best single
hound went to Mr. Fernie's Harm-
less, a very promising bitch ; while
the best bitch coming from that
pack which had not won a first
prize since 1895 turned out to be
the Atherstone Gleeful, who just
beat the Southdown Bonnylass.
It was, however, a close thing,
and Mr. Straker, Master of the
Tynedale, was asked to step over
the barrier to give the casting
vote. Mr. Fernie scored another
success with two couples of entered
bitches, three of which were by
Bel voir sires. The North Cheshire
Rantipole was adjudged to be the
best brood bitch, and was also the
champion.
Taken all round the show was
perhaps hardly so good as some of
those which have gone before, but
no exception can be taken to the
two champions Potentate and
Rantipole. The Warwickshire
bitches appeared to show hardly
so much substance as some of the
representatives of that kennel seen
in years gone by, though of course
among the competitors were some
excellent hounds of both sexes.
W. C. A. B.
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A Queen's Cup Yacht- Race.
" There goes the preparative gun,
and they have run up the white
flag at the club-house to tell us
that we have to Buy Meloxicam go the westward
course. This means a short beat
to begin with, but I daresay we'll
fetch round in a couple of tacks.
You may try a bit pull at your
topsail tack, and see that you
have your spinnaker gear all
ready for carrjdng it on the star-
board side. We have ten minutes
yet before they hoist the Blue
Peter and give us the * five
minutes gun,' and we'll take a
stretch outside to see the sort of
weather we are going to have and
what the others are doing. If we
are first round the Lepe, we shall
take a lot of catching in the run
to the Warner." So speaks the
captain of the noted Clyde racing-
cutter Clutka, just as we are on
the eve of starting for the Queen's
Cup at the annual regatta of the
Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes.
Since the first starting-gun to
open the season was fired at
Gravesend, neither skipper nor
crew have been idle. From the
Thames we have raced to Harwich,
and, the Royal Harwich Regatta
over, home again to the Nore
Light. Round the back of the
Goodwin Sands we have thrashed
her through a stiff breeze and a
jumping sea in the Channel match
to Dover, there off the historic
chalk cliffs to fight for the Royal
Cinque Port trophies. Across the
English Channel to Cherbourg at
a pace which would have made .
the owners of the old-fashioned
packet boats think that even the
sunken vessels of ancient times