Here is a link to the photos that were taken by Carolyn Carnes, a photographer who attends many of our hunts. As usual she has outdone herself, each year the photos are better than the last.
These photos were taken at Snooty Fox Farm in Alachua, Florida. Snooty Fox is also the birthplace of the racehorse Bellamy Road, and the home of his breeders, who are very generous members of our hunt by opening their property to us.
Beautiful fixture!!
thanks! We are very fortunate to have several very nice fixtures that very generous people have made available for us to enjoy
Your oak trees are beautiful but I hate all the female riders. They all have thin to skinny thighs!!!
Wow, that’s a lot of photos! LOL
I liked #694 best – could be a nice painting. I also agree that you have some really nice, big live oaks.
And another hunt with a bagpiper – I guess this is some tradition our hunt doesn’t know about.
Every hunt is different, wanabe. Some of these clubs go back 100 years; eventually they develop their own traditions or customs within the larger culture and traditions of mounted foxhunting.
Some hunts have a big to do for high holy days, other hunts keep it more simple. It’s all good. 
SLW - Don’t you hate those riders? I’m glad for my frock - it’s cut very long and now I no longer frighten small children.
Slight hijack:
What exactly are the high holy days? A google returns only results pertaining to Jewish holidays.
Opening Day, Boxing Day etc etc…
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Your oak trees are beautiful but I hate all the female riders. They all have thin to skinny thighs!!![/QUOTE]
We do have some lovely riders don’t we? I’m one of the whips so I"m wearing a red coat.
My horse is plain bay with a teensy little star in the middle of her forehead.
We only do the bagpiper at Opening Meet. He comes down the hill under that big tree ahead of the staff, immediately followed by the huntsman, hounds and whips, and the rest of the staff follows all of us. Then we have our whole ceremony and to do. It really makes a nice day.
in this photo I’m the one in the background on the right
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Okay, now I hate you too Jaegermonstor- your one of those lady’s with skinny thighs and you ride a lovely horse!! Very nice!
I’ll never share photos of me foxhunting. I ride a 14.2 (my farrier swears she wouldn’t stick 14.1 but I won’t stick her to settle the gentle arguement) plain chestnut mare or a QTR/Arab who looks mostly Arab under hunter tack- western judges thought he was Appendix QTR at a competition two weeks ago. Both of these beloved equines are easy peasey to spot in group hunt photos- surrounded by stunning TB’s and Draft crosses of every combination- where the line of riders heads dips, I’m mounted on my mare. If the horse has forked ears I’m on the gelding.
I think I have woven a web of fondness with my hunt because I can remount from the ground which makes me pratical at gates…and when whips or flask are dropped.
And yes JSwan- if I earn my colors I’ll get a frock coat with a hem that ends just above my knees. 
I frighten puppies with my short, solid thighs.
Aww thanks SLW. You know how it is, somehow we never see ourselves the way others see us. I keep seeing the extra 10 or so pounds that need to go away.
The horse is my homebred Reputed Testamony mare (coming 6) out of my mare that I hunted for several years and who (though retired now) is the horse of my heart. This is the homebred’s first season as a staff horse, and she is coming along just stellar. She is everything I ever wanted and more, I feel like the school nerd with the prom queen every time I saddle her up, I keep wondering what I did to get such a nice horse.
Your ten pounds are in zip code 66071.
How neat to be hunting a great looking and suitable homebred horse, mega congrats on that hard work!
I’ve got a homebred Quarter horse coming along who turns 2 in March. Yesterday I had him over at the state lake ponying him along the trails. Nothing new for him except I had not done one thing w/ him since showing him in a couple halter classes at local shows in early June. He loaded like a veteran, ponyed along without doing bolts, spins or silly “I’m testing the limits of this rope” stunts. We even came upon a 4 point buck and doe not 30 feet away and he just looked at them like cool, a coat rack on hooves.
I hope my guy grows up to be just like your girl.
Aww thanks. Your baby sounds nice. I remember when Jaeger was 2, and I put a saddle on her for the first time. The first foxhunt seemed so far away then. Enjoy him and do lots of things, the time will fly by before you know it. I did lots of ground driving and walking her over tarps and all that scary stuff, hanging stuff in trees and all that.
I have to admit it has been very rewarding bringing my own hunt horse along. I have sent her for a month here and a month there every year to a trainer (one year to start her jumping, the next when I shattered my wrist, the next year to expose her to more cross country with Christan Trainor) but mostly she has been with me. I’m very proud of her
I’m so jealous.
(this is the green with envy emoticon).
Lovely pictures. I really think this one says it all right here- http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/orderpage.aspx?pi=0K4H001C000344&po=344
Lovely horse! http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/orderpage.aspx?pi=0K4H001C000309&po=309
Jumping together- http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/orderpage.aspx?pi=0K4H001C000227&po=227
It really was a fun day. Carolyn outdid herself again on the photos. She also got a few with the fall leaves in the background and so forth that are just gorgeous.
Thanks for all the beautiful pictures - GORGEOUS!
OK, I lofff this one - who has the composure to wave at a full gallop?!!
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