Welcome to Baily's Hunting Directory

Thank you for logging on to Baily’s Hunting Website. This is the first season that we have published Baily’s on line, and incorporated the famous Directory into a much wider hunting web site. This is something of a new departure for us, and we very much hope that you both enjoy the web site and find it useful. We did not change from our traditional format of red hard backed editions lightly, conscious that we had published in that format since 1897, but by going “on line” we can make much more information available to far more hunting supporters and at a fraction of the cost - £12 as opposed to nearly £50.

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Skycastle French Hounds - Midwinter report

Our 2009-2010 season has been plagued with rough weather conditions at times, but hounds have shown very good sport. November 1st, was a meet at Marsh Creek. Nick Booth did a nice job hunting hounds, and the pack had short runs on two rabbits in tough scenting conditions. At Silberman’s on the 8th, ...
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Hunting and Animal Welfare- A Principled Approach

In this article, Jim Barrington, who joined the League Against Cruel Sports in 1972, when he was 19, and was its Executive Director for seven years illustrates succinctly and dispassionately, why, in forcing through the Hunting Act for political ends, the Government struck a blow against the concep...
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Hounds and Charity- The Story of Stalker

It’s not your usual hunt supporters’ fund. But when members of the Iroquois Hunt Club in Lexington, Kentucky, established the Hound Welfare Fund, they applied the hunt supporters’ model to a different area: retired foxhounds. The HWF is now in its 11th year of funding happy, dignified retirements fo...
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