The Warrenton Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - -.- White 



MASTER T. Lee Evans, Esq. 



SECRETARY — F. R. Satterlee, Esq., Warrenton, Va. 



HON. HUNTSMAN Fleet GaUoway. Esq. 



HOUNDS - 1 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Warrenton, Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON - - October 1st to April 1st 



WARRENTON, Virginia. The two words are almost synony- 

 mous with horse and hound to the ears of any hunting man 

 in America; and to many they recall good days of sport in 

 the saddle — either following the Warrenton drag, or hunting foxes with the 

 private pack of Mr. James K. Maddux, which has already been spoken of 

 in another chapter. 



The Warrenton Hunt, proper, was first incorporated in 1 889, about the 

 time that Mr. Maddux began to keep a pack of his own, and although 

 the private pack of Austen Blackwell, Esq., was used for the drag, Mr. 

 Maddux was honored by being elected to the Mastership of the new Hunt. 

 Mr. Blackwell's hounds had come down in his family from generation to gen- 

 eration for a number of years and were quite a noted strain, having hunted 

 foxes in the vicinity of Warrenton for a great many years, and it seemed in 

 many ways rather a pity to degrade them to the drag, this being the man- 

 ner in which cross-country sport was followed by the new club. However, 

 that was the vote of the majority, and it was followed. At first the Fields 

 were small and the sport was carried on in rather a haphazard sort of man- 

 ner, but as time went on and new people settled about Warrenton, interest 

 grew, and today the Warrenton " drag " is as well known as any in the 

 country. 



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