Tag: American

The English Foxhound in America in the Early 20th Century

Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2022 in:
Subject: American
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An American commentator writing in the early 20th century looks at the impact of the English Foxhound on American packs. All things progress rapidly on this side of the Atlantic, and nothing better ex­emplifies this characteristic of things American than the phenomenal growth of hunting, or, I should perhaps say, riding to hounds, in America,...

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The Winners of The Great Hound Match of 1905?

Posted on Friday, August 27, 2021 in:
Subject: American

Many readers will know that the Great Hound Match of 1905 was a face-off between A. Henry Higginson’s Middlesex Hunt with its English Foxhounds and Harry Worcester Smith of the Grafton Hunt and his American Foxhounds.  The Match was held in the Piedmont Hunt’s then country with each pack alternating days hunting in the country. ...

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