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(Continued from Page 1 ) would amble in from that way and before I knew it. I’d have a pack sniffing around my horse’s feet," Bruce recalled. In those good old days — good old days at least for fox hunters — the chase would continue for hours, horses and riders charging hell bent for leather over ditches, over fences, up mountains, down mountains. Those impromptu hunts would go off on Monday. and again on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday — as long as fresh horses lasted and aching bodies could be hauled back into the saddle. Understandably, the hounds would lose a little of their enthusiasm over the course of those marathons. "The hounds would run so hard, they'd be so sore and tired, they'd hardly crawl out of the kennels. That’s when we'd lay a drag," Bruce recalled.
He remembered always having a dead fox lying somewhere in the field. “We'd tie a roi>e on him and put a scent down to get the hounds excited. It would put the push back in them. That's how the first drag races that I know of around there started." Bruce said.
Friendly Rivals
Bruce and Corbin are the friendliest of competitors. Both believe that the American fox hound is the only animal put on this earth for the projter chasing of foxes. Both bemoan the deer population explosion which they see threatening the future of the sport they love.
“I've known Kelly Corbin since he was a kid." said Bruce, at 74, the elder statesman of hound men. "His daddy and I hunted together. Now he and I hunt together." Smiling and nodding his head, Bruce paid Corbin the highest dog breeder’s compliment-. "His dogs are as good as mine."
Joining the mutual admiration society, Corbin handed out praise for Bruce's line. "He raises some fine hounds, some of the best around."
As thoroughbred owners point to pride at family trees that list Bold Ruler. Secretariat and other racing greats, so does Bruce trace the bloodlines of his hounds back to giants of the breed. He has descendants of Burrell Frank Bywaters’ pack. Charlie F.astham’s Countess anil Brooke Miller's Rags. And just as certain as thoroughbred lines produce sprinters and stayers, so it is with fox hounds. One strain is good for the long run, another for making music. Some hounds produce progeny that are best for the finale when the fox breaks down and ducks, turns and twists to throw his pursuers off the track. Some have
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