The International Union of Hunting with hounds started out as a committee in the European organization called FACE (Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation), which represents some 8 million European hunters. More than a decade ago, it was suggested that FACE be expanded to all nations who hunt hounds on horseback, and IUHH was born.
We are delighted to share this report of additional classes for juniors at 2019 hound shows in the United Kingdom.Press Release -
March 15th 2019 - For immediate release: Exciting news for young hunting enthusiasts in Britain – New young handler classes to be introduced at The Harrogate Hound show and Lycetts Festival of Hunting, Peterborough. Building on the popularity of the now well established young handler’s class at the West of England hound show, Honiton.
On September 19, the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg, VA, hosted a presentation by Alasdair Jackson on his new biography, Lady of the Chase, The Life and Hunting Diaries of Daphne Moore. Jackson, former Director of the Masters of Foxhounds Association in the United Kingdom and past Master at several distinguished hunts, accompanied his commentary with dozens of vintage photographs and hand-painted illustrations from the book about one of Britain's most respected sporting journalists.
I started using horses for falconry in 2001, by mistake, really. I had just set up my outfit, Dartmoor Hawking, doing falconry commercially, as a change of life after the death of my first wife, and had got back to my parents' farm where I kept my horse at the time. I was riding a Thoroughbred mare named Toffee (Takethetopoff), and a girl who worked for me at the time was having problems with a young peregrine falcon. Without really thinking, I said "Pass it up here," and there I was: on a horse with a falcon, and a little thing went ping in my head.
Earlier this month, the storied Fitzwilliam (Milton) Hunt, whose hound pedigree records date back to 1760, opened its kennel gates to the general public in what has become a popular annual outreach event. Located near the city of Peterborough, the open kennel day coincides with a local horse show that already brings most of the community out to spectate. The hunt, which has been under the stewardship of the same family for its entire history, began to offer wagon rides from the showgrounds to kennels a few years ago to educate the townspeople about hound care.
The red, hardbacked volumes of Baily’s Hunting Directory, first produced in 1897 as an annual edition, have embodied for generations the very essence of hunting. The Hunting Man’s Red Backed Bible of the chase, as it came to be known, has given both experienced people and those new to hunting everything they need to know before following hounds wherever you are in the hunting world. Because it builds on over 100 years of experience and expertise, it contains far more fact-based information that can ever be obtained through any internet searches.
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