When Brooke muttered “its awfully hot” she wasn’t kidding! 16 riders in the field, four whips, Ralph, Lisa, Mary Pat, and Richard, sweated our way from Riding Mill Farm. Master Steve greeted everyone and we welcomed Maria back for her second capping and Jennifer who came out for her first ever hunt. We had strict instructions that when we reached the far side of our corn field (we went the opposite way last week) we needed to respect Mr. Petrolino’s horses and should line up along the edge of the corn to ensure that no hounds left our property. Wendy Furlong led the field and the exercise turned out to be a huge success. The biggest challenge was to stop horses bucking as the “bombers” descended.
Steve then led his pack of 18 ½ couples which included five puppies Nightcap, Nimrod, Nimble, Nitro, and Lancer around PM and Phil’s hay field, and back through our farm along to Runyon Mill Road and around a couple of Wielenta's fields. By this time 3 foxes had been spotted by our whips, but none in which our hounds could lock onto. We then turned left along the edge of the newer houses, greeted by waving from some new owners and lapped back on ourselves. Steve F worked the cover and the adjoining fields but Charlie Fox evaded up this time out. What didn’t evade us as mentioned before, were the bombers, quickly tallies were being made of “kills”. I am pleased to say Master Brendan back from his duties at the London Olympics scored gold with 12 zaps, Silver was won by Katie M and bronze is still in contention!
Ok you get the idea it was a little slow going for us riders, but for our hounds they worked their hearts out in the unbelievably hot humid conditions. But after 1¾ hours we were all pleased to drip our way back, hounds to take a bath in our pond and humans to take refreshments which were kindly provided by Jeanne.
Question- where was Lynette?
For those of you not up to Master Brendans Gold winning standard this was your target.
Steve then led his pack of 18 ½ couples which included five puppies Nightcap, Nimrod, Nimble, Nitro, and Lancer around PM and Phil’s hay field, and back through our farm along to Runyon Mill Road and around a couple of Wielenta's fields. By this time 3 foxes had been spotted by our whips, but none in which our hounds could lock onto. We then turned left along the edge of the newer houses, greeted by waving from some new owners and lapped back on ourselves. Steve F worked the cover and the adjoining fields but Charlie Fox evaded up this time out. What didn’t evade us as mentioned before, were the bombers, quickly tallies were being made of “kills”. I am pleased to say Master Brendan back from his duties at the London Olympics scored gold with 12 zaps, Silver was won by Katie M and bronze is still in contention!
Ok you get the idea it was a little slow going for us riders, but for our hounds they worked their hearts out in the unbelievably hot humid conditions. But after 1¾ hours we were all pleased to drip our way back, hounds to take a bath in our pond and humans to take refreshments which were kindly provided by Jeanne.
Question- where was Lynette?
For those of you not up to Master Brendans Gold winning standard this was your target.
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