Mooreland Hunt Huntsman Rhod Jones-Evans & Whipper in Shannon Roach
By Katy Carter
Photos by Adrian Jennings
Native Welshman Rhodri Jones-Evans, or just Rhod as everyone calls him, hunts the 38 couple hounds for Mooreland Hunt near Huntsville, AL. When not hunting hounds, Rhod loves to bird hunt and work with his two pointers and English Cocker Spaniel on quail, duck and dove. He is unfortunately …
Story and Photos by Autumn Clarke
After another great Saturday hunt with Shakerag Hounds, I stood in the barn with sponge and rag in hand, giving the mud-coated tack a deep clean. After a bit of a slow start that morning, I was thinking the tack might not look much dirtier than when we started. But when hounds struck on that coyote, we flew across the Georgia countryside for …
Photo by Curtis Robb
The Masters of the Live Oak Hounds have announced the appointment of Dale Barnett to the position of Huntsman. Dale grew up on Live Oak Plantation and has served as professional whipper-in for 14 seasons. He has hunted with the pack for 23 seasons. Dale’s father, Doug Barnett, was Live Oak’s kennel huntsman from 1985 to 1995. This picture captures Dale carrying the horn for the first time in November 2011. Dale’s …
By Alice Barnard
A Happy New Year to all readers. The Countryside Alliance is celebrating what looked like a record turnout for the Boxing Day hunts in the United Kingdom. The news also quoted Agriculture Minister Jim Paice decrying the Hunting Act. It was hard to keep under wraps, but a fortnight before Christmas I travelled with Jim to Milton Park, where we met with huntsman George Adams of the Fitzwilliam and had photos taken …
By Ziggy Pelham 
I have to apologize to everyone for missing the December blog. That Woman, who shall remain nameless, deleted it from my iPad. She claims I bucked during a hunt at Berry Hill in Greeneville. As if I would ever do anything like that while leading the Hilltoppers. I merely put my head down to sniff for fox scent while we were galloping after First Flight in a big …
By Meg Mullery
World War I, one of history’s deadliest conflicts, resulted in more than 35 million military and civilian casualties. Spanning the years between 1914 and 1918, the war marked a transitional period in the evolution of armed conflict with the development of modern machine guns, tanks and poison gas warfare. The system of trenches that had been developed, which were protected from assault by barbed wire, provided minimal protection. Attacks, even if successful, often caused severe casualties as a …
By Michael J. Ferraro
South Creek Foxhounds of Tampa FL. held its annual Boxing Day Pony Club Hunt on 12/26/2011. Four Pony Clubs— Alligator Creek, South Creek, Tuscawilla and Wekiva Basin— were in attendance. Of the sixteen junior riders, five took part leading the fields and working with staff. All in attendance enjoyed a traditional English Boxing Day fair of ham, turkey (substituted for …
Photo by Elise Ange
By Joanne Sharpe
The year 2011 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Amwell Valley Hounds, founded originally as the Kingwood Foxhounds, in western central New Jersey. When kennel facilities were moved to the Amwell Valley in 1970, the name change was prompted by the support from and in recognition of local farmers in the valley.
Current Masters are Dr. Ralph Reilly (2006), Joanne Maltese Possumato (2008) and …
