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Although it is now included in our ‘Pre Directory’  1870-1883 here is the file from 1876 which  started our search STAGHOUNDS (England) NAME OF HUNT, with nearest Towns for Visitors Hunting Days Master Huntsman Whips Kennels HER MAJESTY’S Windsor, Slough Tues. & Fri. Earl of Hardwicke Frank Goodall Richard Edrupt H. Hewson William Bartlett Royal...

What height should a beagle be? The attached letter was sent in to Baily’s in 1902 and was designed to promote debate about the ‘perfect’ height for a hunting beagle. However the writer’s thoughts on hunting in general will, we think,  have considerable resonance with hunting folk today whichever pack(s) you support and follow Hunting...

Mrs. Hillyard was a great lover of sports and various breeds of dogs. The Hillyards’ estate at Thorpe Satchville, near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, included a private golf course and tennis court, and exuded an uninhibited sporting atmosphere. The Hillyards adored dogs and allowed their pack of pocket beagles and other terriers to wander in...

The tale of Lady Milburn’s side saddle When I purchased my Side saddle habit I found a label stitched inside the pocket, I was intrigued and, as I investigated the habit’s provenance began to unfurl. The habit’s story began on 13″ April 1970, when commissioned by a Lady Milburn it was finished in the workshops…

The Mona Hunt was a private pack in the late nineteenth century India. What follows are contemporary notes sent for publication It may possibly interest those keen on hunting to hear that there is still one small private pack in Northern India which, although it has had its share of bad luck survived the vicissitudes...

JACK MOLYNEUX, hunted the Meynell for two seasons, the Hertford­shire for seven seasons, and later the North and South Shropshire, had thirty-three years’ hunt service in all. The son of a huntsman, at the end of his last season he retired into private life with a flourishing riding school at Hexham in Northumberland, in which...

A turn of the century Baily’s records in a very eloquent Victorian style that ladies are figuring more prominently than ever with horse and hound. The notes below have been extracted from that report. At the present time, there are at least eight lady masters of hounds in the United Kingdom. Active participation by women...

The following is a report from the Dundee Advertiser in 1934 Songster, a chestnut horse, that in 1914, was ” turned down ” for war service because of his age, and afterwards went overseas with the Leicestershire Yeomanry, he is claimed by his master to be the ” daddy ” of all veteran war horses....

“Foxhounds.” wrote Lord Willoughby de Broke, “can be taught to do almost anything if spoken to civilly, cheerfully, and firmly.” It is, in fact, with his voice that a huntsman hunts his hounds or, rather, one should say persuades them to hunt for him. Not only must he have a command of hound language, but...

Mr. Austin Mackenzie [MFH 1885-99] bred two famous packs in the Woodland Pytchley country. The dog pack was after wards sold to the Duke of Beaufort. The bitches, sold to Mr. Wroughton, remained in the Woodland Pytchley, where I saw them. They had wonderful drive and tongue in the woods (Brampton, for example). Mr. Mackenzie...