Hunt Reports

Many thanks to Bob and Leslie Yarbrough for allowing us to hunt at Leeds Manor Farm on Sunday.  I also want to thank Margaret Thomas and Camilla Moon for hosting the tea.  It was an OMG day hunting and the tea was wonderful!  We had many members out and we met the new owner of...

I took a 6 couple to Aldie on Thursday – not entirely the best crew but I wanted to give the good hounds a day off as well as giving the border line hounds a good chance to proof themselves. I want to thank Jean Roberts for helping out. I casted the hounds into the...

Mounted hunting in County Meath in Ireland can be traced back to Mr. Nicholson’s Hunt in 1723. Two other packs those of Mr. Pollock of Mountainstown and Mr. Gerrard of Gibbstown amalgamated in 1817 to form the Clongill Hunt, which is the basis of the present Meath Foxhounds. The hunt club is headed up by...

During a recent joint meet with the Golden Valley Hunt at Dorstone, Mjr Patrick Darling kindly invited us to Caradoc Estate to hunt. The ground on the banks of the River Wye consists of pasture, stubble, woodland and all weather gallops and boasts many hunt jumps…ideal for a days blood hounding. Caradoc sits within the...

With all the students having fled back home for this year’s Christmas holidays,  writes Henry de Fosard MH we relied on our strong base of local support and a smattering of the dedicated students at Otmoor on Boxing day. Karen Kressenberg and Judy Kirk, Master Huntsman and Hon. Secretary of the Mells Foxhounds in Tennessee...

I just want to thank Ed Gamble for allowing us to meet at Destinaire Farm on Boxing Day and for him getting back from PA in time to be able to see us off.  He told me he had only been back at the farm for 5 minutes before we came to hunt!  I also...

The Burne Bloodhounds met at Lower Drayton Farm Penkridge Staffordshire by kind permission of The Bower Family. A dry day for what turned out to be a very good day. The ground was heavy but a reasonable field turned out along with our host’s daughter Charlotte Bower who with her great enthusiasm helped entertain us...

This Sunday was another OMG day at Glen Bolton.  Even though the weather was cold – in the mid 30s with a wind – the day was good.  We had a field of about 10 members come brave the cold and I don’t think they were disappointed.  I had Avatar, Aviator, and Avid out as...

The Burne Bloodhounds met at Fauld Hall, a new meet by kind permission of Sir Ian and Lady Ley. The country was varied to say the least with flat water meadows to start followed by the steep inclines of land over “Duchy” land farmed by Mr and Mrs Brown that took us into the village...

We had a super hunt yesterday. Hounds were very keen out of the kennel, and knowing a storm was brewing, expectation was high. The warmth from the last several days had melted much of the snow, but those melting snowfields lent some drama to the footing. Keeping the slippery conditions in mind, hounds were cast...