Well, yes, I couldn’t make out the other verbiage…but I got the drift.
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Opening Meet is tomorrow, and there is no way it’s going to happen. Just no way. It’s still pouring - and I mean pouring. I’m not sure I can even get the trailer hooked up - it’s so muddy at the barn. My tack is spotless, all the brightwork is polished (I polish EVERYTHING), my braiding kit is all ready, my Melton, boots and canary vest still fit (amazingly), and my boots are spit shined. In short - I’m ready to boogie.
NO CHEATING! :)[/QUOTE] :eek: You mean you don’t hunt because its raining and muddy? Blimey O’Reilly! Good job you don’t live in the UK or you’d never be out.
Not that we’ve got any hunting just now … foot and mouth disease risk precautions! 
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Explain what is meant, in foxhunting, by the term ‘to throw up.’
Okay, I can hear minds racing, so let me clarify: It has nothing to do with what you might have had in your flask.:)[/QUOTE] Well my Yard Manager threw up all over one of my horse’s withers and on my saddle last New Years Day! Good Party the night before ! :winkgrin:
Its when the hounds get their noses off the ground and lift their heads up and look round for help because they’ve lost the line of scent.
Well it is here anyways!
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So, while pondering ‘chop,’ here is another one. Name the three parts of a hunting whip ‘according to Wadwsorth.’[/QUOTE] Never read Wadsworth, but I’ll have a guess based on what there is:
Handle - for opening gates
Shaft - erm… well to keep the handle from the thong :winkgrin:
Thong - to keep the hounds from under your horse’s feet
What does it mean if someone is riding with their hand behind their back?
And…
What’s a smeuse ?
dunno but take a guess thomas
riding with hands behind your back- can only think to stay quite and not pass the master nor houndsmen till scents picked up and found meaning you to close to object
as regards to smeuse -never heard of it- could be a mouse or it could be a shared venture ie hunting -
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A Parliament of owls.
Your “mixed pack” is a trencher pack![/QUOTE]
Thank you! Whenever I’ve used the term “trencher pack” I am told that is is not a term and no one has heard of it.
Ah- but you do not have “red Virginia clay” either. Nasty stuff when it is wet- pulls tendons.
Gap in a hedge.
Would the hand behind the back have the first two fingers extended ??
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Gap in a hedge.[/QUOTE] Well done you 
But for those who didn’t know - a small gap at the bottom,where animals track regularly track through - not a gap all the way up for people
Would the hand behind the back have the first two fingers extended ??
no. well not here anyway
I’m admit to being stumped on the hand across the back. I only do that when my back hurts!
I knew what a smeuse was - but have never heard it used in the US (not that I have a lifetime of experience hunting, mind you). I use the term “trace” as in game trace.
The hunting whip - would be, I think, crop thong lash. Though there are more parts - those are the biggies.
Did anyone get “chop”? Hint - what might a skirter do?
Thomas_1 - Usually mud does not deter me. Our territory is mostly bottomland. But that much rain after months of drought - it was just gross. I did manage to make it to the breakfast, though! Turnout was a bit low this year - for the aforementioned reasons.
Catersun - You MUST come hunting!!! It’s wonderful!
J Swan, if that is an inviation, I’ll be sure to make a detour on my way to PA this fall/winter. A couple of us locals have talked about it, alas… that is all the farther it’s gotten to, talking.
Well know I know what a smeuse is…hand behind back, ‘warning, my horse is about to kick, back off!’
J Swan wins on the whip. I am waiting for ‘somebody else’ to guess on chop, recusing myself as it were…
Trencher pack…really? No one in your neighborhood ever heard of it? From the French ‘tranchee,’ that last bit of bread that zee French, hundreds of years ago, would use to sop up the last bit of gravy on the dinner plate and then pitch to the hound dawg.
Paradise Valley Beagles in AZ is a trencher pack.
Ahhhh - now I know why I didn’t know what a hand across the back meant. The first indication I get is usually a seeing a set of hooves fly about 2 inches from my horse or my knee.
Followed invariably by, “Oh, did Pookums kick you? Naughty Pookums Mommy wuvs him.” As I mention that a red ribbon or a different career might be appropriate…
I have a trencher - her picture is in my profile. Since her bout with Lyme she just hasn’t been the same though. I’ve also heard that term used interchangeably with “farmer pack”.
If no one is gonna get chop - I’ll let y’all chew on it a while longer while I give you another trivia question.
Ribbons and their meaning (ribbon in the tail - not exclusively a foxhunting thing)
Yellow
Red
Green
White
Catersun - I tell you what. You come visit, and I’ll take you hunting with a footpack of Basset Hounds. No horses - this is a footpack.
Red- kicker
Green- new to hunting/green hunter
Yellow or White- one means a stallion.
At a loss for the fourth.
SLW gets partial credit for red and green!
Yellow and white remain - and indeed, one means a stallion.
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Ahhhh - now I know why I didn’t know what a hand across the back meant. The first indication I get is usually a seeing a set of hooves fly about 2 inches from my horse or my knee.[/QUOTE]:lol: Well there you go… Now you’ll see the hand behind the back JUST before you see the set of hooves.
Its what was used before folks got into the more modern tendency for ribbons in the tail!
Ribbons and their meaning (ribbon in the tail - not exclusively a foxhunting thing)
Red - might be prone to kicking if crowded
Green - its a young un or an inexperienced one and I’m darned if I know what it will do but as you’re behind me, you’re responsible for looking after you and yours!
Yellow and White - goodness knows ! We don’t do those in the UK! Does it mean the horse is a coward… you know like a white flag or a yellow streak!? Or is it just an American Horse and we really must have a fancy ribbon in its tail :winkgrin:
whoops just read on and saw the answers to the first 2 are already there!
Wow - Thomas is flummoxed.
Ok - I’ll tell you.
Yellow means a stallion.
White means For Sale. So if you had a horse for sale and you were competing it, or hunting it - whatever, the white ribbon would be a way to advertise that the horse is for sale.
Hopefully, when wearing the white ribbon, the horse doesn’t do anything stupid and affect the price.
Or - be mistaken for a Frenchman. Get it? I’m so funny…
Love the ribbons thing!
OK now I’m TOTALLY confused!!!
Did I get skirter right? How many points do I get!??!! Where my trophy!?
Chop - a sudden kill as in the fox runs out in front of a hound while exiting a covert and gets “chopped” or grabbed quickly? A lotta rabbits get chopped foothunting but often the hound drops it cuz he’s so surprised he caught him!! And he gets away!! yea!! Isn’t it kinda hound instinct to snap at their quarry anyway? or…is chop what foxhunters do to their food at huntbreakfasts!! :winkgrin: as in…Wateryglen has been know to chop her food after hunts…!!!
Yes this really happened!
I actually hunted once with a horse that had red/green & white ribbons in its tail…yep! a green kicker that was for sale!! yippeeee! It was Xmas time and I’m bettin’ I’m the only one who really knew what was goin’ on!!
Wateryglen shakes her head! :no:
