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M. F. H. Two packs were hunted at a time, one 

 wearing red collars, with seven and one-half 

 couples in each pack. After five days' hunting 

 and work the judges decided that the Green 

 Spring Valle}^ and Aiken packs were so evenly 

 matched in speed, endurance, driving, and pack 

 work that they could not render a decision, and 

 accordingly divided the $1,000 purse between 

 them equally. 



The Meadowbrook Hunt Club is probably the 

 best known of the Eastern Clubs. It was organ- 

 ized in 188 1, and its membership has steadily in- 

 creased until now it numbers about 125. The 

 fifty couples of hounds are divided into three 

 packs, English, American, and Drag hounds. The 

 foxhounds are hunted in the morning and the 

 drag hounds in the afternoon. The favorite 

 meets are at Jericho, Wheatley, Westbury, Pip- 

 ing Rock, Lyosset, and Guinea. The season 

 opens September ist, and lasts until stopped by 

 unseasonable weather, and in the spring from 

 March ist to April 15th. Wild red foxes are 

 hunted with two or three drag hunts each week. 

 Nassua, Queen's, and Suffolk Counties, Long 

 Island, are hunted, the countr}^ being rolling, and 

 the fencing, mostly timber, is not too stiff to be 

 ridden straight. The present Master, Mr. Peter 

 F. Collier, Mr. Foxhall Keene's successor, can 

 be relied upon to furnish high-class sport. The 

 average attendance is about fifty, seventy-five be- 



