MAN-HUNTING WITH DOGS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8310, 8 May 1905, Page 2

MAN-HUNTING WITH DOGS.

BLOODHOUND TRIALS.

On Mar oh 24 a trial was made of hunting men by bloodhounds on Salisbury Plains.

They were not dangerous criminals, but peaceable yokels, who laid a trail over which the members of the Bloodhound Hunt Club might test the merits of their pets. The meet was at Knrgbton flagstaff, near Shrewton Village, and the first hound, Mr A. Leeston Smith's Victor Clemsford, was laid on the line of his runner goon after nine o'clock. Be was pot an industrious dog, and, though he started well, he failed -to persevere, /and was "lifted." The best trial of the, day was run by Mrs Oliphant's bitch, Chatley Bonny Bell. Owing to a mistake on the part of the runner she was slipped on a scent an hour and three-quarters cold. Beginning well and hunting her line truly, she ran put in twenty-eight, minutes — a fine performance on such a dav. ' The puppies Chatley Borderer and Baron were tried .in the stake for couples of hounds. Their line was over four miles and a half, and although about half a mile from the finish they were turned by a wan, they ran I brilliantly f~ Borderer found his man, who was secreted in an outhouse on the Downs, inside fifty minutes— a very fine performance for a puppy only a little over seven months old. The day was wound up by the senior pack of Mrs Oliphant— four and a half couples— running a seven miles line in | twenty-nine minutes. It was a beautiful run, and in Netheravon Bottom the horsemen had great difficulty in maintaining the pace. .-