Upper Bay Bassets, Holston River Hunt Report
Sunday, March 26th was a beautiful day for the Upper Bay Bassets to be hunting along the edges of the Holston River. The mixed field of about 30 people encompassed all age groups. Our youngest field members were a set of 4-year-old twins who had never been out rabbit hunting before. Their “GiGi” is a...
Upper Bay Bassets Hunt Report Holston River Meet March 2023
Written by: Julie Johnston juliejohnston16357@gmail.com
Hunt: Okaw Valley Foot Bassets, Tewksbury Foot Bassets, Three Creek Bassets, Upper Bay Bassets
Sunday, March 26th was a beautiful day for the Upper Bay Bassets to be hunting along the edges of the Holston River. The mixed field of about 30 people encompassed all age groups. Our youngest field members were a set of 4-year-old twins who had never been out rabbit hunting before. Their “GiGi” is a...
Andrews Bridge Performance Trials 2022 and Some Lively Meet Reports
Andrews Bridge Performance Trials 2022 7 Packs attended with 2 1/2 couple of Hounds from each pack + 2 1/2 from ABH. Hounds were Hunted by Adam Townsend from Andrews Bridge. A Pack of 20 couple was judged over two days. Some fantastic hunting was had with a total of 11 foxes Hunted 5 put...
Season Report 2022 Windy Hollow Hunt
The season opened with Autumn training on Wednesday August 3rd. A slow start due to the dry hot weather and poor scenting for the first couple of meets. Hounds produced good mornings from Wiley’s in the Home covert on Aug 6th and on 20th from Lower road Hounds fair rattled around the large fields of...
Big Sky Hound Report Winter 2020-2023
The Meath Foxhounds at Ardbraccan December 2022
Written by: Noel Mullins www.noelmullins.com
History The foundation of the Meath Foxhounds began when Mr Nicholson of Balrath founded a pack in County Meath in 1723. Then Mr Pollock of Mountainstown and Mr Gerrard of Gibbstown formed the Clongill Hunt, which in 1817 became the Meath Hunt. The chairman is Edward Galvin with joint masters Norman Williamson who rode the...
The Grallagh Harriers at Lafferty’s Bar in Cartymore, Athenry Co Galway 2022
The Grallagh Harriers were formed in 2007 as a foot pack, and in 2009 became a mounted pack sharing the cream of the Galway stone wall country with the Galway Blazers. The Grallagh Harriers are without doubt a fine pack of hounds. They have everything that you would want in a pack, uniform in size,...
Ashland and Hill & Hollow Joint Meet – Aldie Va 3/20/22
Written by: Mary Reed MBH
Hunt: Ashland Bassets, Hill & Hollow Basset Hounds
The Tri-Meet originally fixtured for this day ended up being a Joint Meet with Ashland Bassets (VA) and Hill & Hollow Bassets (MD). We met at The Institute (The National Beagle Club) in Aldie, VA. The weather for the day was good for hunting, sunny but slightly chilly with a light breeze. The McCoys’ from...
Bicentennial 200 Year Celebration, Lower Moors Farm, Garway
The exact date our hunt was formed is lost in antiquity, but what is certain is The Ross Harriers existed two hundred years ago because William Cobbet recorded them along with a multitude of other items of interest in his book Rural Rides in 1821. In those days just about every landed squire kept a...
First Meet
After a difficult first meet that saw hounds releasing ten months of pent-up hunting instinct, I am happy to report that our second meet on Sunday, at a hill farm near Skipton, proved to be much better as hounds became more settled. Although it wasn’t a great start as the first two lines, on higher,...
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