Field Hunting
Field Hunting
Formal Field Hunting
The Formal meets begin mid September. We hunt on Wednesday and Saturday mornings until December.
Dress neatly, arrive early to pay your cap fee to the field secretary, and present your signed waiver. A copy of the waiver can be downloaded from this page below. Please remember your helmet. Ride in the back of the field until your horse is comfortable. Also try to keep quiet, since much of the sport is what you see and hear.
Hound Exercise Rides
Starting in July, the hounds begin morning exercises with riders on bicycles and horses. Young hounds go out in couples to learn how to behave in the pack.
This in an excellent opportunity to introduce green horses and new members to the pack of foxhounds during a relaxing ride.
This in an excellent opportunity to introduce green horses and new members to the pack of foxhounds during a relaxing ride.
Early Season Hunting
Early Season hunting begins in August on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, Ratcatcher dress code.
This is a great time for new horses and riders to come out and learn about the sport.
This is a great time for new horses and riders to come out and learn about the sport.
One of our experienced members will be assigned to you on your first few hunts. They will gladly explain the rules, etiquette and tips to make your first hunts enjoyable and stress free.
Field hunting is a friendly and noncompetitive sport in which the main objective is to enjoy the thrill of chase and to observe a well-trained pack of hounds in full cry and at work. It is NOT as many believe to catch and kill their quarry but to watch as the hounds unravel the mystery as to where the coyote has taken flight and try to piece together the route it may have taken, whether that be across field, though creeks or into the forests and bush.