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Here’s our 2015 Foxhunting Life Calendar, featuring all new photos and ready to ship. We’ve been publishing our appointments calendar since 1998, and our annual collection of foxhunting images continues to represent the finest examples of the sporting photographer’s art. This year’s cover is Douglas Lees’s photograph of Piedmont huntsman Spencer Allen, expectantly drawing a rough patch of woods, horn at the ready, watching a couple of his hard working hounds pick their way in search of the fox. His horse, knowing the job at hand, is watching hounds as well. The drab winter woods, fallen stump, dead oak leaves, and bare limbs through which we see the figures are lit by a single splash of scarlet and flashes of white in the huntsman’s stocktie and britch, the bay hunter’s blaze, and the hounds. An unusual photograph telling a timeless story. As before, photos of the hound show grand champions that you read about in FHL throughout the past hound show season are to be found inside the back cover. Foxhunting Life Calendars will keep track of your busy schedule while they brighten up your tack room and kitchen. And they make great gifts for your cocktail party hosts and for landowners in your hunting country. Be sure to login before ordering to receive your automatic subscriber’s discount! Click to order yours today!... This content is for subscribers only.Log In Join Now

Here’s our Foxhunting Life 2013 Calendar, featuring all new photos and ready to ship on September 1. We’ve been publishing this appointments calendar since 1998—first for the MFHA and now for Foxhunting Life—and our annual collection of foxhunting images continues to represent the finest examples of the sporting photographer’s art. It’s a joyful task each year to choose the cover photo for our calendar. This year, Liz Callar’s low angle shot of Orange County’s red ring-necked American foxhounds—ears flying and exuberantly gamboling in front  (where hounds should be!) of huntsman Stephen “Reg” Spreadborough, who is standing in the irons looking on ahead—jumped out at us as the perfect cover shot. It speaks to the color and action of sport in the field as we love it to be. As before, photos of the hound show grand champions that you’ve been reading about in FHL throughout the hound show season are still to be found inside the back cover. Foxhunting Life calendars will prove to be indispensable in keeping track of your busy schedule while they brighten up your tack room and kitchen. And they make great gifts for your party hosts and for landowners in your hunting country. Be sure to login before ordering to receive your automatic subscriber’s discount! Order yours today…... This content is for subscribers only.Log In Join Now

All sanctioned steeplechase meets are covered by the Steeplechase Times (and other publications), and interested race followers are well-advised to seek their excellent coverage. Unsanctioned hunt point-to-points, however, are not covered by S-T. Since FHL views steeplechasing as yet another dimension of the foxhunting year, we have brought you weekly reports of many of the hunt meets throughout the spring season, featuring the award-winning photography of Douglas Lees. Please help us publish what you like by taking this quick survey.

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Juliet Mackay-Smith, chef and proprietor of Locke Modern Country StoreResults are in for our Hunt Breakfast Recipe Contest! Our judge Juliet Mackay-Smith has made her selections, and we will pin the winning recipes with a blue ribbon within the website so readers will know which recipes have received these honors.

“Born into a foxhunting family, I have had first-hand experience of what makes for satisfying fare at a hunt breakfast...both for the hosts to prepare and for the guests to consume," said Mackay-Smith.