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- Matt Simpson's Foxhunting - Matt's personal perspective on international fox hunting with an American slant. Includes information on the popular Foxhunters OnLine (FOL) email discussion group.
- Countryside Audio and Visual - Foxhunting with the Six Fell Packs - A video showing foxhunting with The Eskdale and Ennerdale, The Lunesdale, The Ullswater, the Melbreak, the Coniston and the Blencathra in the Lake District and the Cumbrian Fells. Online preview using RealPlayer.
- NKARC - Foxhunting - Washington foxhunting
- Foxhunters@topica.com - Foxhunting mailing list. Unmoderated, but registration required.
- MORI Poll for The Mail: England: One Nation? - Q4a: less than .05% thought foxhunting was one of the most important issues in Britain; Q4b: 1% thought foxhunting was one of the most important issues locally; Q5: foxhunting was at the bottom of the list of very important issues. Throughout England. For The Mail on Sunday.
- Telegraph: Blair faces revolt over registered foxhunting - George Jones and Charles Clover. Tony Blair was facing open revolt in the Labour Party last night over a compromise proposal to allow foxhunting under certain conditions. Labour MPs described as a "fudge" the new Hunting Bill which would outlaw hare coursing and stag hunting in England and Wales but would let foxhunting continue if it were given the go-ahead by an independent registrar. Ratting and rabbiting with dogs would also be allowed.
- Foxhunters OnLine - Unmoderated mailing list about foxhunting, horses and hounds.
- Foxhunting in Ol' Virginny - Doug Morris's entertaining and informative site of worldwide fox hunting traditions, commandments, glossary of terms, cartoons, animal rights blog and photographs.
- Telegraph: Foxhunting Bill delay 'insulting' - Tom Peterkin, Scottish political correspondent. Foxhunting Bill delay 'insulting' By Tom Peterkin, Scottish Political Correspondent (Filed: 08/02/2002) THE MSPs behind the Scottish foxhunting ban were yesterday accused of bringing the Scottish Parliament into disrepute by using delaying tactics to spring last-minute changes to the Bill on MSPs.
- Guardian: MPs warned against 'wrecking' foxhunting bill - Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Margaret Beckett, the environment secretary, said that defeat for the government's compromise proposals would jeopardise the entire hunting bill. Gerald Kaufman, a veteran Labour MP and opponent of foxhunting, claims it's procedural blackmail to tell MPs that they either have to let the bill through or risk losing a ban, and that he doesn't believe Margaret Beckett wants to do that.
Wikipedia Articles
- Myopia Hunt Club - Myopia Hunt Club is a foxhunting and private country club at 435 Bay Road in South Hamilton, Massachusetts founded in 1882. The five founders of the Hunt Club all wore glasses, hence its name, Myopia.
- Hugo Meynell - Hugo Meynell (1735 – 1808), generally seen as the father of modern foxhunting, became Master of Fox Hounds for the Leicestershire hunt, the Quorn in 1753 and continued in that role for another forty-seven years (the hunt is so called after Meynell's home, Quordon Hall in North Leicestershire). Meynell pioneered an extended chase at high speeds through open grassland ...
- Tally-ho - The phrase tally-ho is a largely British phrase, used in foxhunting, shouted when a rider sees the fox.
- Field hunter - A field hunter, or a fox hunter, is a type of horse used in the hunt field for foxhunting. It may be of any breed, but should possess stamina, a level head, and bravery.