Green Spring Hounds Pony Club members on a cubhunting morning: (l-r) Brenna Miller, Brigitte Frasier (mom, chaperone), Will Frasier, and Shelby Langlois / Pam Stockdale photo
The Green Spring Valley Pony Club in Maryland won the eighth annual Live Oak Hounds USPC Foxhunting Challenge Award for 2014. The Challenge Award is made possible through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. C. Martin Wood III, Joint-Masters of the Live Oak Hounds in Monticello, Florida and Past Presidents of the MFHA.
The Award is designed to encourage Pony Club members who do not regularly hunt to try the sport and to reward members who hunt on a regular basis to act as mentors to the less-experienced Pony Club members. Ten thousand dollars in awards are distributed each year among the top six Pony Clubs who introduce the greatest number of active Pony Club members to the sport of foxhunting.
A handful of avid foxhunters established the United States Pony Club in 1954, and the sport and the Club continue to share a close bond.
The 2014 Challenge winners are:
First Place
Green Spring Hounds Pony Club in Maryland hunted with Green Springs Valley Hounds.
Second Place
Cedar Knob Pony Club in Tennessee hunted with Mooreland Hunt, Longreen Foxhounds, Cedar Knob Hounds, Hillsboro Hounds, and Tennessee Valley Hunt.
Third Place
Old Dominion Hounds Pony Club in Virginia hunted with Old Dominion Hounds.
Fourth Place
Elkridge-Harford Pony Club in Maryland hunted with Elkridge-Harford Hunt.
Fifth Place
Spring Valley Hounds Pony Club in New Jersey hunted with Spring Valley Hounds.
Sixth Place
Blue Mountain Pony Club in Maryland hunted with Blue Mountain Hunt.
Posted May 16, 2014