THE SUFFOLK 



During the time that Mr. Pfizer had hunted the country, Mr. Newton 

 had often acted as Field Master and it was he who was elected M. F. H. 

 of the new organization. Then came the question of hounds; and Mr. 

 Charles Coster very kindly bought twelve couples of the bitch pack which 

 were at that time offered for sale by the Orange County Hunt and lent them 

 to the country to be hunted as a subscription pack. With these as a nu- 

 cleus, the pack is steadily growing. In 1 908 they showed a pack of five 

 couples at the annual Westminster Kennel Club Show, Madison Square 

 Garden, New York, and while they did not compare favorably wath the 

 crack packs which competed there, it certainly showed the right kind of spirit, 

 and the Master deserves great praise for making a beginning. 



A better riding country it would be hard to find; the big upstanding 

 post-and-rail fences meet one every few hundred yards, hounds run fast over 

 the flat grass country and it requires a bold, big jumping, clean-bred horse to 

 live with the Suffolk. 



The fixtures are all within easy hacking distance of the many small towns 

 in the country, although it is mainly from the localities before mentioned that 

 the supporters of the Hunt come; in fact the country proper includes all 

 these townships and is in charge of a committee of members, who take great 

 pains to treat the property-owners with the utmost consideration. In con- 

 sequence, all are in quiet sympathy with the sport, as they know that all 

 damage bills are promptly paid and that the Hunt values the privileges ac- 

 corded to it by their permission to nde over the land. 



Each year there is a great Hunt supper, at which the farmers are the 

 guests of the Club, whose members vie with each other in making them feel 

 at home. 



During the last two years a steeplechase meeting has been inaugurated 

 and the three-quarter-mile track which has been laid out at Southampton is 

 supplemented by two steeplechase courses; one of them with regulation 

 fences and the other over a natural country. This meeting is the scene each 

 fall of a very pleasant little gathering of Long Island sportsmen, and to the 

 credit of Suffolk County horses, be it said that it takes a nag of more than 

 first-rate quality to " show them the way." 



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