In England, fox hunting is a ready-made pastime. The tidy, trim fields and meadows offer running space for hound and horse, arid tricky as the fox is, he cannot disguise his scent, which hangs heavy ...

November begins the six-month fox-hunting season in the Virginia Piedmont. The sport dates to the mid-1700s, but its popularity mushroomed after an unusual match between American and English hounds in ...

From the archives: This article was originally published on March 15, 2013. The hounds are barking in their kennels, straining to be released. It's hunt day, and they know it. They can hear the horses ...

From the archives: This article was originally published on March 15, 2013. He starts his day at 7:30 a.m. by greeting his 14 horses. "I go to the barn in the mornings, feed the horses, clean the ...

Although a native of Fauquier County, I found that Caitlin Gibson's excellent Aug. 11 Metro article "Nipping at the heels of tradition" accentuated Oscar Wilde's definition of fox hunting as "the ...