The View From Down Here

It’s snowing again in Tennessee. I want to know: when did the South get moved to Canada? We’ve had to cancel so many hunts due to snow and ice down here, and I am most seriously displeased. Even when the hunts are not canceled, Gretchen can’t drive the horse trailer out of our driveway due to the ice. I’m bored, cold and over all this winter weather! I miss the hounds! I miss the huntsman with the birth defect of …

Second Annual Maryland Foxhunters’ Dinner Club is Resounding Success

The Second Annual Maryland Foxhunters Dinner Club was held on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at the Howard County-Iron Bridge Hounds clubhouse near Damacus, Maryland. Some 80 foxhunters representing eleven Maryland foxhunting organizations met for food, drink, camaraderie, and a discussion on fox hunting in the lovely room with two roaring fire places on a cold evening. Members from Carrollton Hounds, Elkridge-Harford Hunt, Warrington Beagles, Flint Hill Hounds, Goshen Hunt, Green Spring …

Join Virginia Trail Riders Competition

The 2011 Virginia Trail Riders Association Competition will be held this year at The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Virginia, April 11- 14th. Put it on your calendar! Take the time off from work to be a part of the tradition! Riders from all over the east coast have enjoyed this ride for more than 50 years. Your fit hunting horse will be ready for a change of venue. If you have never been you …

The Fox Hunt

Madison, 11, and Fender Bender (aka Ben)

by Madison Kepano, age 11

Somehow, I find it so very addicting. Addicting like I can’t stop. I don’t want to not think about it, or give up on it. It’s not like playing with a toy or a puppy; it’s running till my heart is warm, till I can’t feel my feet, till when I can hear a hound’s cry. This isn’t just …

Fox Hunting Quiz Answer

What is the origin of the phrase “red herring?”

a) A dish served at hunt breakfast
b) A red herring is used in drag hunts to lay scent for the hounds.
c) A red herring was used as a training tool when teaching hounds to hunt.
d) All of the above.

Answer: C
Red herrings (or smoked herring, which turns red during the smoking process) were said to be used as part of a training exercise to attempt to throw hunting dogs off the …

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Hunt Weeks Offer Economic Boost

While the economic impact of foxhunting has been studied in the United Kingdom, there’s little measure of how much the sport contributes to United States economy. While sure that number is minimal, many small towns benefit during hunt weeks around the country.

Hunt weeks such as those that recently took place in Florida and in Aiken, S.C., bring people and horses into towns to fill hotel rooms, eat restaurant meals, board their horses and buy fuel for their trucks.

Augusta, Ga. TV …