Dumfriesshire hound

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Dumfriesshire Black and Tan Foxhounds were a pack of foxhounds kennelled at Glenholm Kennels, Kettleholm, near Lockerbie until they were disbanded in 2001. They were established by Sir John Buchanan Jardine , author of Hounds of the World (1937), [ 1 ] [ page needed ] after the First World War . The hounds are believed to have originally been created by crossing Bloodhound / Grand Bleu de Gascogne / English Foxhound . They were larger than standard foxhounds and were black and tan. There is a pack descended from them in France , known as Equipage de la Roirie, and they are used also by the Equipage Pique Avant Nivernais as staghounds , along with the Français Blanc et Noir hound . [ citation needed ] These large hounds were also crossed with the Dumfriesshire otterhounds during the foundation of the Otterhound pack. [ 2 ] Since the Second World War , the Dumfriesshire hound has been used to improve speed and agility in several clean boot hunting bloodhound packs; as one example, Eric Furness introduced Dumfriesshire hound blood into his Peak bloodhounds. [ 3 ] Dumfriesshire hounds starred as bloodhounds in The Thirty Nine Steps with Robert Powell , which was partly filmed in the Kettleholm area. [ citation needed ]