“I hove into view in 1945” was how Patricia du Pont described her arrival at Fair Hill, and what became her lifelong home. It was in 1945 that Maryland welcomed the iconic horsewoman we would come to know as “Miss Patsy,” and on...
Read MoreIn 1978, with 20 years of hunting under his belt already, a young vet from Minnesota assumed the mastership of one of the oldest lineages of foxhound bloodlines in the country. Roger I. Scullin dedicated the next 30 years of his...
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By Katherine Rizzo (First appeared in March 2018 issue of The Equiery) In a time when such horses...
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For the 2016 season, the MSA board selected Brett Owings and Church Music as the Hurdy Gurdy winners. The pair had a stellar season, winning two out of three races. But it isn’t their wins that earned them this honor. It was their spirit and sportsmanship. “They are very deserving of this award,” said Church Music’s owner J.W.Y. “Duck” Martin, Jr., who won the Maryland Hunt Cup in 1972 aboard homebred Early Earner. “They are a foxhunting combo that also race. Foxhunting is the best way to make a timber horse. The only way to make a timber horse.”
“It is a great honor to win this award,” Brett said. “She’s a really old fashioned horse that shows the tradition of taking foxhunters and turning them into timber horses.” What makes winning this award even more special for Brett and Duck is the homebred history of the mare.
Read More(first appeared in the December 2014 issue of The Equiery) We all have them. That special item that connects you with foxhunters of yore. The stock pin from a great aunt. The whip from the person that first mentored you. The...
Read More(first printed in the December 2012 issue of The Equiery) He has just always been there. Their rock. Their ship’s ballast. Their confidant. Their confessor. For certain ladies of the Potomac Hunt, Leonard Proctor is not just...
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