The Riverside Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR _ - Dark green 



MASTER - - Le Roy Roper. Esq. 



SECRETARY M.J. Pegram. Esq.. Petersburg. Va. 



HON. HUNTSMAN : M. C. Jackson. Esq. 



HON. WHIPPERSIN - - - \ \^\ ^„? ,f^'^"°''' ^!5- ^ 



( 2na, W. Roane Rumn. Esq. 



HOUNDS - I 6 couples. American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Petersburg. Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING \ Foxh°unds every hunting day 



( Draghounds. Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON October 15th to April 15th 



FOX-HUNTING has been carried on about Petersburg, Vir- 

 ginia, in an indefinite sort of way since the Revolutionary War, 

 although for several years after the Civil War there was very lit- 

 tle done. The sport has, however, too strong a hold in the south to die out 

 completely, and there are now five or six packs of hounds within a radius of 

 fifteen miles of Petersburg. Of these, the Riverside Hunt, founded in 1 903, 

 and recognized by the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association in 1 907, 

 is perhaps the best known. Its founders are all members of the Riverside 

 Country Club who are hunting men and who, while they could at any time 

 hunt with the other packs in the vicinity, concluded to organize a Hunt of 

 their own, chiefly within the membership of the Country Club. Mr. Duncan 

 Wright was elected M. F. H. and served until 1906, when Mr. Le Roy 

 Roper, the present Master, succeeded him. The Hunt Staff, which is strictly 

 non-professional, is composed of M. C. Jackson, Esq., huntsman, E. B. 

 Sydnor, Esq., 1 st whipper-in, and W. Roane Ruffin, Esq., 2nd whipper-in. 

 The country about Petersburg abounds with foxes, but to the great sorrow 



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