The very title inspired me to write about the role of a whipper-in who has an important position in hunt service and often not given the credit they deserve. The mere quote “The Galloping Whip” is not far from the truth as it does not do to have a...
Financing Hunt kennels, large or small, especially in the close season, requires ongoing fundraising to keep the show on the road and guarantee monies are still coming in for the upkeep of the kennels, staff wages and particularly the hounds. Some smaller Hunts find...
At the end of March and the closing meet of the Exmoor Foxhounds, it is more than the hounds that are “The Stars of the West”. Huntsman Tony Wright has been at the Exmoor with his wife Jill for thirty six years – now that is “long...
Adventures of a couple of Beagles by Webley Well us beagles are doing quite well, we have been with the hunting correspondent (HC) a week now – our Huntsman brought us up last Saturday in the pick up truck. We travelled on a deep bed of straw me and litter brother...
I wrote this for Countryman’s Weekly in the Spring of 2018 Hunting on Exmoor by Karen Davison-White Ever been to Exmoor? Of course you have? And if you haven’t – “you have it to do”. It was twenty six years ago that I last visited when I used to go back and...
