The Monmouth County Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - Claret color 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, claret colored facings 



MASTER Robert J. Collier, Esq., Eatontown, N. J. 



HUNTSMAN John Fitzpatrick 



^j-jjpp£p^ljSj S 1 St, Nicholas Van Winkle 



( 2nd, Harvey Bemis 



HOUNDS ^ ^^ couples, English 



(25 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Eatontown, N. J. 



p. A ye /-\p ivyipp-riKip ^ Draghounds, Monday, Thursday and Saturday 



( Foxhounds, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 



LENGTH OF SEASON \ 0*^|tf 1"/° ^T"^. If. 



( and March 1st to Apr J 25 th 



MR. P. F. COLLIER, who has always been identified with 

 cross-country sport in this country, started, in the year 1 89 1 , a 

 pack of hounds of his own, building suitable kennels on his es- 

 tate at Eatontown, New Jersey. Mr. Collier, who is an Irishman by birth, 

 is in the habit of going every year to his mother country for part of the hunt- 

 ing season; in fact the jovial face of the Master of the Monmouth County 

 is almost as well-known with the Meath as it is in his own country. What 

 more natural, then, than that he should import considerable drafts of hounds 

 from time to time, and that these importations should come mainly from the 

 Meath, whose Master, Mr. John Watson, is an intimate friend of his? 



Few men are better qualified to give advice on the subject of hound-man- 

 agement than Mr. Watson, who has had the practical control of the Meath 

 pack for more than forty years, hunting the hounds himself during most of 

 that period, and Mr. Collier is lucky in having so able a mentor. Mr. 

 Collier's horses, too, come from the Meath country, and when one sees the 



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