Hunt Report – Sept. 5, 2009
Filed under: 2009-2010 — Cheryl @ 8:41 am
Reported by: Cheryl
Fixture: Bonnydale Farm, 7:30 a.m.
Members: Lili, Kate, Cheryl, Jenner, Earl, Barbi, Susan
Guests: Anne
Weather: overcast but turning warm
Hounds: 8 couple
I.D. Awards: None!
Tailgate/Breakfast: Not sure as I left early
The Hunt: Started at the edge of the woods by the creek below the trailers. Hounds found fairly quickly and really worked the field. We ran into the large herd of cows, including a bull, and had to work around them. They were really frisky!! Young calves running toward horses and bucking made for some excitement.
Hounds continued to work, we heard Jazz, Kaptain, and of course, Sally, and the rest of the pack honored each time. However, they never really took anything out of the field, so we moved on toward Katie’s house through the 4-wheeler trails. Hounds worked some more that way and across into the fields below her house. It was fun to watch hounds popping up and down out of the soybeans.
They spoke again along the creek and ran the edge of the soybeans and we had some valuable deer training when some went on the line of a beautiful buck we viewed.
The weather was getting hot so in we went with all hounds on. Although the first two hunts have not been exciting as far as hounds running a fox, they have really stayed together well and had some good experience.
We look forward to an increasingly better season as many foxes have been viewed both in our Sherwill country and our Pamplin country. As the weather gets cooler the hunting will get better!
Cheryl
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I had a great week with everyone from trailriding as my warmup all week to “capping it off” with cubbing on Saturday(no pun intended) with all of you .
Hope to keep it up with the Goshen Hounds up here in Maryland so my horse continues to get more experience in the field.
Thanks Again !
Two young entry were out for the first time, Melody (sponsored by Tammy Stokes), who was drafted unenetered by the Potomac Hunt last spring and Sam (sp. by Mary Anne Kelley) who is by Kaptain (sp. by Vicky Dean) and out of Sally (sp. by Susan McDougall). That added up to 9 couple total. We have 9 unentered hounds to start this fall. That’s alot for our small hunt. We’ll try to take out at least 2 different ones every hunt. As Cherly said, they hunted great together and listened exceptionally well. The summer packing up on foot and horseback has it’s rewards. All were keen to hunt and honor when the older hounds spoke. I think they were following and trailing night lines. The temperature rose quickly and you could tell by watching the hounds that scent was vanishing when their noses were not sticking to the ground.
Two youngsters, Melody and Sam was it? went out. Melody looks red like Soldier. She stayed close to Lili sometimes but also put her nose down quite a bit and seemed to be having a good time. Cows and the bull were terribly curious as we came in. One goosed my horse, Django, and made him squeel like a girl. They didn’t leave til I bumped them with Lili’s trailor broom. Didn’t want to make them gallop but they were getting ready to load on the trailor! Sorry no tailgate but we were probably still digesting the kabobs from Cheryl’s fab Margarita party. Have Nick post that chicken marinade recipe for us, okay Cheryl? Had a great time. Hope I can make it down a few more times this season.
It was SO great to hear the hounds speak after waiting all summer!! My new horse, Toby, is obviously a “city” horse because the cows nearly gave him a stroke. He was so distressed (and the snaffle I had him in wasn’t cutting it) that we had to return to the trailers earlier than everyone else. Special thanks to Susan for “babysitting” me and my new hunt horse. Just a reminder to those of you with green horses or horses that haven’t hunted before — this is the best time to get them exposed! I’ll be back with a better bit!!