Festive_Felicitations
Well-Known Member
but we had a great time! 
It was I suppose 'proper' hunting weather, as in cold, and blowing a constant drizzel unlike the cool sunny days I've had so far
It was nice weather till we were about 10 min from the meet and the clouds just descended! :-/
Whopping great big field of 3 and 5 & 1/2 couple out. Having watched a pair? brace? (is there a correct term?) of healthy looking foxes run next to the lorry up the drive we were hoping for a good days hunting!
Setting off:
Nothing at the first covert but but spotted a fox across the field, picked hounds up and set them on the trail they found and hunted well across the field and up the hill till we had to stop them as they were heading straight for the highway and an no-go property.
Moved on to the next covert and the weather deteriorated, ruining scent hounds would find for a bit then loose it. They found again in a gorse thicket (who on earth introduced that to Aus???) running up a creek bed. They hunted really well but in circles as the fox pretty much ran circles round them! Eventually lost the fox or the scent.
As the weather was so vile and scent was deteriorating we headed for home. Found in the last covert and the fox escaped by a very fine hair into a wobat hole. A rather enthusiastic hound followed him in an needed a bit of help getting out...
Not helped by his friends wanting to join him!
Super proud of my horse who was an angel all day and having never been asked to do any work in serious mud took to it like a duck to water making nothing of it and jumping out of deep sucking mud like it was smooth turf!
First jump of the day was skid down a steep slope and pop rails out of mud into mud - didn't blink! Jumped everything else equally well
Back at the lorry, muddy and a tiered:
It was I suppose 'proper' hunting weather, as in cold, and blowing a constant drizzel unlike the cool sunny days I've had so far
It was nice weather till we were about 10 min from the meet and the clouds just descended! :-/
Whopping great big field of 3
and 5 & 1/2 couple out. Having watched a pair? brace? (is there a correct term?) of healthy looking foxes run next to the lorry up the drive we were hoping for a good days hunting!Setting off:
Nothing at the first covert but but spotted a fox across the field, picked hounds up and set them on the trail they found and hunted well across the field and up the hill till we had to stop them as they were heading straight for the highway and an no-go property.
Moved on to the next covert and the weather deteriorated, ruining scent hounds would find for a bit then loose it. They found again in a gorse thicket (who on earth introduced that to Aus???) running up a creek bed. They hunted really well but in circles as the fox pretty much ran circles round them! Eventually lost the fox or the scent.
As the weather was so vile and scent was deteriorating we headed for home. Found in the last covert and the fox escaped by a very fine hair into a wobat hole. A rather enthusiastic hound followed him in an needed a bit of help getting out...
Not helped by his friends wanting to join him!
Super proud of my horse who was an angel all day and having never been asked to do any work in serious mud took to it like a duck to water making nothing of it and jumping out of deep sucking mud like it was smooth turf!
First jump of the day was skid down a steep slope and pop rails out of mud into mud - didn't blink! Jumped everything else equally well
Back at the lorry, muddy and a tiered:
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