The Piedmont Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE UNIFORM Steel gray coat, black velvet collar 



EVENING DRESS Steel gray coat, black coUar 



MASTER R. Hunter Dulany, Esq. 



HUNTSMAN - Claude Hatcher 



HOUNDS ^ '^ couples, English and 



( American, hunted together 



KENNELS — -"Grafton Hall," Upperville, Va. 



POST-OFFICE Upperville. Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING — — - — Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON October 1st to April 1st 



LOUDOUN and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, which include 

 pretty much all the territory bordered on one side by the Blue 

 Ridge Mountains, on another by the Potomac River, on a third 

 by the Bull Run Mountains, and on the fourth by Albemarle County, com- 

 prise what is the best natural fox-hunting territory in the United States to- 

 day. In this area, at present, there are four Hunts which are recognized by 

 the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association — the Loudoun County, 

 the Orange County, the Middleburg, and the Piedmont. Of these four the 

 Piedmont is the oldest by many years ; having sprung from a private 

 pack owned and maintained by the late Col. Richard Hunter Dulany of 

 "Wellboume," who may be aptly called the father of fox-hunting in the 

 Piedmont Valley. Colonel Dulany, who died in 1906, had kept hounds 

 since 1870, and toward the end of his life, being too old to undertake 

 their active management, relinquished the Mastership to his son, R. Hunter 

 Dulany, Esq., of "Grafton Hall," although it was always to the old Col- 

 onel that the landowners came to pay their respects at the beginning of the 

 season. 



In 1905, Mr. Harry W. Smith of Worcester, Mass., M. F. H. of 



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