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August 17, 2011

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Blue Ridge Hunt Intro

The Blue Ridge Hunt was organized in 1888, but this gently rolling grassland in the Valley of the Shenandoah echoed to the music of hounds, the huntsman’s horn, and the rhythm of galloping horses long before that time. A youthful George Washington regularly followed the hounds of his friend and employer Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax nearly three hundred years ago over the very same hills and fields and along the same twists and turns of the Shenandoah River as do the Blue Ridge hounds today. Website:  www.blueridgehunt.org... This content is for subscribers only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
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Red Rock Hounds to Parade at $25,000 Jumping Derby

The Red Rock Hounds are scheduled to parade at the 2011 Franktown Meadows USHJA International Hunter Derby in Carson City, Nevada on Labor Day, September 5. The “best horse and rider combinations in the country” are expected to compete over this beautiful course in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Hounds will parade around the course at noon with mounted staff, and the Derby will begin at 1:00 p.m. Red Rock Master Lynn Lloyd believes it’s an appropriate venue for both her hounds and the spectators. “The derby came because of field hunting,” she said, and we are “presenting its roots. I think [the spectators] begin to understand that this is where hunters in the show ring began, and that hunting in America is still available….I want people to understand the freedom [of hunting] and being in nature. I think it grounds people, and I want them to remember the fun of horses. Sometimes I think they forget that.” More information about the derby is available from the Phelps Media Group. Posted August 17, 2011
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