Why Worry?
Charles Sainsbury-Plaice photo
“Would you like to ride up with me?” asked George Thomas, MFH and huntsman of the Why Worry Hounds. Thomas is a direct descendant of the Bywaters family of Virginia—renowned foxhound breeders of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—and he hunts a pack of Crossbred hounds, most of which carry the old Bywaters bloodlines. The meet was at Basset Hill in Aiken, South Carolina, home of Ward and Mary Lou Welsh. I was being offered a chance to watch a lovely pack of hounds work their country.
The Riding Safari
Photos by Garth Thompson and Derek de la Harpe
The author discovers a new adventure on horseback that features good horses, wide open spaces, abundant wildlife, and a measure of risk.
Ten horsemen stood on the bank of the Mara River under the midday equatorial sun as Tristan explained the crossing.
“We must cross here and land on the far bank at that tree, you see. You must point your horse upstream so the current doesn’t carry you down to the hippos there.”