Hunt Reports

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 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...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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...

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,...

As we reach the end of our formal 2020-2021 season, a few statistics from the hunt this year: Hounds have been out 157 days this season, chased 271 rabbits, accounting for 47 of them, 39 ran to ground, 8 killed. The average size of the pack has been 17.5 couple throughout the year. Voodoo and...