Hunt Meets Photographs

When we bid a farewell to the season and turn out our hunters to grass, 'twould be surely the blackest of treason to go without filling a glass.  To the men who have furthered our pastime by lending their fields for the fun! Here's 'The Farmers!' - Once, twice, and a...

William Henry Ogilvie wrote: Always our fathers were hunters, Lords of the pitiless spear, chasing in English woodlands the wild white ox and the deer, feeling the edge of their knife-blades, trying the pull of their bows, at a sudden foot in the forest thrilling to...

"Tho' hoarfrost lingered in the shade, and rime lay white in copse and glade, upon the winter landscape played a sun as mild as May.  With trampling hoof and stirrup clink the lanes beneath them rang; whole hamlets ran to watch them prink in brown and yellow, black...

Those that know me - know I love to travel, especially if it involves watching hounds.  I like to visit; meet hunting friends, I have to say I am not that sociable at a meet (which is not my nature) but because there is only a small window in which to take photographs...

"Now here's to the Baron, and all his supporters, the thrusters, the skirters, the whole of the tale; And here's to the falrest of all hunting quarters, the widest of pastures, three cheers for the Vale! For the fair lady rider, the rogue who beside her finds breath...

I love to visit and the Essex and Suffolk Foxhounds in East Anglia are without a doubt the premier league pack.  It is indeed "mini Leicestershire".  The rolling undulating grass country, specifically put down for the hunting, coverts, fences, beautifully laid hedges,...

The brave big hills of Exmoor, 'tis there I love to be, upon the rolling moorlands high above the Severn Sea, where hidden in the wooded coombe the murm'ring Horner winds, And where beneath the hunter's moon the red stag guards his hinds.  Across the wind-swept...

I have waxed lyrical about the Exmoor Foxhounds on a previous visit and for the hound purest you cannot overlook the athleticism and beauty of these working hounds.  They have an easy gait across all terrain and to watch them is a joy on the eye.  It perhaps might be...

I do like a little visit and last week was full of hunting and meeting like minded people.  I had a little look at the Dulverton West Foxhounds whose country is situated in Devon and Somerset.  A lovely meet and made most welcome - nice to see the whipper-in, a...

"That all men are sportsmen I hold for to be true, for some scent or another each man he doth pursue .  Some hunt after riches while others seek the chase.  But they that have a keener sport - will hunt a pretty face............................" Here I will put the...

Always our fathers were hunters................................. Here I will put the Buying Instructions