Orange County Hounds

Mary Crane, representing the Norfolk Hunt and her ex-chaser Forever Bernardini were the winners at the 2021 North American Field Hunter Championships where this pair won both the Dr. Mathew MacKay-Smith Trophy for the highest placing Thoroughbred as well as the Reserve Championship of the 2021 Theodora A. Randolph Field Hunter Championship Finals held recently...

On Friday May 25th, 2018, just one day before the festivities surrounding the Virginia Hound Show, foxhunting lost one of the real giants of the sport. After a long and valiant battle with the ravages of cancer, James L. Young, known to all simply as “Jimmy”, went to his final covert. As reported in Foxhunting...

James Sharnberg MBH reports on the 2018 Bryn Mawr Hond Show With the shift of the Julian Marshall award to the Friday Night Bryn Mawr Hound Show dinner, competition kicked off on June 1st under surprisingly clear skies with the Junior Whip Cracking Division.  Henry Nylen representing Middletown Valley Beagles took home the whip handle...

‘Jimmy’ Young  was a third-generation foxhunter who grew up hunting behind his father, Robet Bonnell (Bobby) Young, Joint-Master of the Orange County Hunt with the legendary Fletcher Harper in the late 40’s. Furthermore, his mother, Sybil Whigham Young also served the Orange County as Field Master during the second world war. As an officer in...