THE VOL. XXI. N.S.. NOVEMRER, 1827. No. CXXII. CONTENTS. 12 Portraits and Performances of two cele- .......16 Hints to Young Sportsmen on Shooting Musters and Tom Sebright-The Sedge. field Country--Durham, as a Sporting County: Character of the Yeomen and Farmers-Principal Riders in the Sedgefield Hunt--Mr. Bowser's Harriers---Mr. Thomas Shafto, a very celebrated Sportsman: his education of the original Clipper: his extreme Passion for Fox-hunting-Mr. Wilkinson, and the Hurworth Fox-Hounds ...................................22-38 The Last Words of A Loser ..............................................38 Death of the Race-Horse Reviewer........39 Flying.................................................17 || Pedigree and Performances of Woodman..40 I. Portraits of BLAST and BIJOU, two celebrated Greyhounds. PORTRAITS OF THE TWO THE above-named bitches, whose portraits embellish this Number of our work, were both very fast and close runners, and such killers that a hare seldom or ever escaped them. They were both They were both bred by H. Biggs, Esq. of Stockton House, Wilts. The former was got by Mr. Pettat's Platoff, out of Bounty-the sort of which came from a celebrated kennel in Yorkshire. Bijou was got by Mr. S. Heathcote's red dog Hogarth, out of Fly, which was bred by the late Mr. Dalton. The following are the performances of these greyhounds : BLAST. At Amesbury November Meet ing 1823, for the Cup, Mr. Biggs's blk. b. BLAST beat Mr. J. H. Vivian's bl. d. Valentine, Mr. Pettat's wh. b. Poll, Mr. Northey's blk. d. Newcomb, and Mr. Moffat Mills's blk. d. Marquis, and won the Cup. She also beat Marquis in a match for ten guineas. At Deptford December Meeting 1823, for the Bitch Puppy Stake, three guineas each, BLAST beat Mr. Everett's blk. b. Erin, Sir Hussey Vivian's blk. b. Vapour, and Mr. Phelips's blk. b. Ray, and won the Stake. A |