The unentered bitch pulls off a big win over esteemed company.

  As the hounds started posing and pouncing on biscuits at the Bryn Mawr Hound Show, May 20 in Malvern, Pa., Potomac (Md.) Huntsman Larry Pitts was optimistic about his chances.

Potomac Jacket ’06 had been reserve grand champion foxhound at the Virginia Hound Show a week earlier and topped the American dog hound championship at Bryn Mawr. But in the final judging for the American foxhound title, an unentered hound took over the winning.

The Colorado hunt calls some of the country’s most spectacular scenery home.

The word “bijou” means jewel in French, and the Bijou Basin east of Colorado Springs on Colorado’s high plains is certainly a jewel, with lush pastures and rolling, pine-covered hills. There are ponds and streams and abundant wildlife. Pikes Peak, called “America’s mountain,” towers on the western horizon.

Not having a steed doesn't mean you have to sit out the season.

You’re a horseless foxhunter! It has happened before and doubtless will again. So what to do? Curse, naturally—fume and whine, with your teeth nicely gnashed. But then, well, what?

Here are a few suggestions of how to participate in hunting when the best mode of transportation isn’t an option. Naturally, all of these ideas should first be run by the Masters for approval.

Horses and dogs often go together, but Beth Dowd’s interest in dogs has exceeded the usual few running around the barn. While she does have a posse of pointy-eared Corgis patrolling, her name earned international headlines for a Sussex Spaniel called Stump.
   
Her 10-year-old, pulled-out-of-retirement champion earned the Best in Show title at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Feb. 10.
   

Essex Fox Hounds
P.O. Box 335,
Peapack, New Jersey 07977.
Established 1912.
Recognized 1914.

Making The Best Of The Weather

Here in the Essex Country, rock-hard, icy ground temporarily forced us off our horses and onto our feet.