Hound Sponsorship | Starts now!
14/05/12
We launched an 'Adopt-a-Hound' scheme several seasons ago. Recently, several people asked about a similar idea for the coming season... We were delighted therefore to introduce Hound Sponsorship at the puppy show on May 12 and delighted further that you made it such an initial success.
We have 23 wonderful hounds awaiting sponsorship. Whether you're looking for a true athlete or a great show hound, there are plenty to choose from....
Sponsors receive a personalised package including a certificate, photographs, a family tree and comments from Sage and Tim (who know them best of all). If you would like
any further information please contact Deborah Boulton on 07720 848033 or Hannah Alsbury-Morris on
07930 416835.
They would be delighted to hear from you! They will be out and about at further Hunt events...
Sponsors receive a personalised package including a certificate, photographs, a family tree and comments from Sage and Tim (who know them best of all). If you would like
any further information please contact Deborah Boulton on 07720 848033 or Hannah Alsbury-Morris on
07930 416835.
They would be delighted to hear from you! They will be out and about at further Hunt events...
Hound Shows | Dates for the Diary
14/05/12
After Sage has returned from his holidays, the Masters hope to take hounds to the various shows, parades and festivals up and down the country. We may not participate in each one, but these are potential dates for your diary, to which more will be added in due course:
Surrey Union Hound Show : June 3 : The Kennels, Ockley
South of England Show : June 7 - 9 : Ardingly
Sussex Game and Country Fair : June 16 -17 : Parham
Festival of Hunting : July 18 : Peterborough
West of England Hound Show : August 2 : Honiton
Surrey Union Hound Show : June 3 : The Kennels, Ockley
South of England Show : June 7 - 9 : Ardingly
Sussex Game and Country Fair : June 16 -17 : Parham
Festival of Hunting : July 18 : Peterborough
West of England Hound Show : August 2 : Honiton
Puppy Show Results | May 12
13/05/12
Doghounds
1. Hansard (walked by Reid Summerhayes)
2. Hanover (walked by Reid Summerhayes)
3. Halifax (walked by Reid Summerhayes)
4. Hamlet (walked by The Homan Family)
Bitches
1. Habit (walked by Mrs Diane Evans)
2. Grumble (walked by The Homan Family)
3. Grizzle (walked by The Homan Family)
4. Hassle (walked by The Homan Family)
Championship
Doghound : Hansard
Bitch : Habit
Champion : Habit
Cup Winners
The Hunt Supporters Cup : Boswell (the Mardles Family)
The Graffham Cup : Statesman (the Hoskins Family)
The Kathleen Elwin Cup : Stealthy (the Homan Family)
The Masters Cup : Denton (Kate Ford)
The Shirley Reed Cup : Devious (Michael & Deborah Boulton)
The Harold Wait Cup : Righteous (the Wates Family)
The Joy and Stan Mayes Trophy : Sandringham (Reid Summerhayes)
Puppy Walkers
Reid Summerhayes
the Mardles family
Deborah and Michael Boulton
the Addison family
Mrs Diane Evans
the Hoskins family
Emma Shaw
the Wates family
Puppy Show | Parking!
11/05/12
Due to the recent poor weather and activities in the Park, it is now only possible for us to leave 4x4s in the usual place. Barry will be on hand to enforce this.
The National Trust are allowing us to park in their North Car Park ( from Petworth past the kennels on the left off London Road towards Northchapel ) and waiving their charge, but you should put it in the windscreen your Puppy Show invitation or something identifying you as attending. It's a 8-10 min walk. This is not the car park where we parked for the Hunt Ball, which we can't park in today.
The grass verges on the left and right as you approach the kennels on the London Road are out-of-bounds. The Police will likely move cars on. There is no parking at the kennels. You can probably also park at Hampers Green, but do so sensibly, not on the grass and without impeding the traffic flow.
Hopefully, those bearing dishes can be dropped off. Best of all share lifts in a 4x4. And please let those know who don't use e-mail.
The parking scenario is irritating and unavoidable, but we are looking forward greatly to another enjoyable day with hounds.
The National Trust are allowing us to park in their North Car Park ( from Petworth past the kennels on the left off London Road towards Northchapel ) and waiving their charge, but you should put it in the windscreen your Puppy Show invitation or something identifying you as attending. It's a 8-10 min walk. This is not the car park where we parked for the Hunt Ball, which we can't park in today.
The grass verges on the left and right as you approach the kennels on the London Road are out-of-bounds. The Police will likely move cars on. There is no parking at the kennels. You can probably also park at Hampers Green, but do so sensibly, not on the grass and without impeding the traffic flow.
Hopefully, those bearing dishes can be dropped off. Best of all share lifts in a 4x4. And please let those know who don't use e-mail.
The parking scenario is irritating and unavoidable, but we are looking forward greatly to another enjoyable day with hounds.
Inter-Hunt Relay | Windsor | May 10
10/05/12
Well done to our intrepid and talented relay team! Sure, they didn’t win. But it’s not winning that counts, it’s taking part. Or in the case of the CL&C -vs- The Quorn it’s the taking apart. (They beat their Leicestershire rivals by a good 40 seconds!).
The team comprised Rachael Morley on Piper, Sarah Cherriman on Ross (under 25s), Sam Garry on Spike and Paul Lyon-Maris on Vinny (over 40s) with non-riding Kate Ford as Chef d’Equipe. The team had a perfect round with terrific speed and faultless handovers but sadly a couple of poles down took them just outside the top eight, who move forward.
We wish them success in firstly getting into Ardingly and then winning it. After that the ‘Silver Fox’ beckons. Team CL&C say ‘big love’ [Do they really? - Ed] to Karen and Lee Dallyn and Neville and Jan Cherriman for all their help and support. Big Love.
We wish them success in firstly getting into Ardingly and then winning it. After that the ‘Silver Fox’ beckons. Team CL&C say ‘big love’ [Do they really? - Ed] to Karen and Lee Dallyn and Neville and Jan Cherriman for all their help and support. Big Love.
The Hunt Ball | Petworth House
07/05/12
Thirty years on and back at Petworth House, we are delighted to report that The Hunt Ball was the success it always promised to be - and deserved to be for the incredibly hard-working Hunt Ball Committee. With George Grammer in the Chair, they were Lucy Addison, Julia Edwards and Clare Emery. Somehow these four people conjured up a magical evening for 462 people of all ages. If only they could turn their attention to the UK economy, the strange weather patterns and Weltpolitik...The reception began in the Stone Hall after a walk - in dry weather! - through the Pleasure Grounds and snaked its way through the Marble Hall and dining rooms. A giant tent had been erected on the Orange Lawn where dinner was served (smoked salmon, king prawn and gravadlax medley, then rack of Southdown lamb with new potatoes and asparagus, followed by a ‘Triple Delight’ pudding summer fruit pavlova, chocolate parfait and caramelised lemon tart).
The auction prizes were fantastic and expertly pumped up by Dendy Easton, whom you will know from Antiques Roadshow. He was very persuasive. There was a beautiful and architectural ‘Tombola Tree’ with leaves containing envelopes with a variety of rewards. The Setterfields did their usual terrific job with the Silent Auction too. You should have seen the brilliant prizes (well, you probably did) including a Hoskins cake of such sculptural power it was a crime to break into it. (in fact, it made its way circuitously to Sunday’s tea table at the Beaufort kennels where it was much admired). There was a casino and there was dancing to Willie Austen. And very few people fell over as far as we could see...
As Lord Egremont recalled ‘During my childhood, the hunt ball was a great feature of Petworth life. Each year on that eagerly anticipated night, the house filled up with elegant women in long dresses and rather red-faced men in scarlet tail coats, many of whom were looking a bit paler at the meet the next morning. Occasionally there was some mild ostentatious drunkenness but usually everyone behaved. Only once was a man found on the telephone talking to his girl friend in Montreal, boasting to her that the call was at my father’s expense. I am delighted at the revival of the ball this year, after too long an interval. Let us hope that the elegance will be as impressive as in the past. I will be keeping a watchful eye on the telephones’.
Though there more than a few red-faced men in scarlet, hopefully there were no misdemeanours shocking enough to prevent us being there again next year. Thanks again to the committee, The National Trust, Lord & Lady Egremont, all the sponsors, auction prize givers (and those who raised their hands for them!) and the 462 who bought tickets in a tremendous show of support to the Hunt. Thank you everyone.
The auction prizes were fantastic and expertly pumped up by Dendy Easton, whom you will know from Antiques Roadshow. He was very persuasive. There was a beautiful and architectural ‘Tombola Tree’ with leaves containing envelopes with a variety of rewards. The Setterfields did their usual terrific job with the Silent Auction too. You should have seen the brilliant prizes (well, you probably did) including a Hoskins cake of such sculptural power it was a crime to break into it. (in fact, it made its way circuitously to Sunday’s tea table at the Beaufort kennels where it was much admired). There was a casino and there was dancing to Willie Austen. And very few people fell over as far as we could see...
As Lord Egremont recalled ‘During my childhood, the hunt ball was a great feature of Petworth life. Each year on that eagerly anticipated night, the house filled up with elegant women in long dresses and rather red-faced men in scarlet tail coats, many of whom were looking a bit paler at the meet the next morning. Occasionally there was some mild ostentatious drunkenness but usually everyone behaved. Only once was a man found on the telephone talking to his girl friend in Montreal, boasting to her that the call was at my father’s expense. I am delighted at the revival of the ball this year, after too long an interval. Let us hope that the elegance will be as impressive as in the past. I will be keeping a watchful eye on the telephones’.
Though there more than a few red-faced men in scarlet, hopefully there were no misdemeanours shocking enough to prevent us being there again next year. Thanks again to the committee, The National Trust, Lord & Lady Egremont, all the sponsors, auction prize givers (and those who raised their hands for them!) and the 462 who bought tickets in a tremendous show of support to the Hunt. Thank you everyone.
CL&C Hunter Trials | Iping | May 26
18/04/12
The CL&C Hunter Trials will take place at Iping on Saturday May 26
(by kind permission of The Hon Mrs Daphne Lakin)
(starting 9.00am prompt)
Class 1 : Novice – fences approx 2’6
Class 2 : Novice Pairs – fences approx 2’6
Class 3 : Intermediate – fences approx 3’0
Class 4 : Open – fences approx 3’3
For entry details and offers to help on the day or before contact jo.burdett@rocketmail.com
Click for Schedule and Conditions of Entry below :
CL&C Hunter Trials = Entry Form
(by kind permission of The Hon Mrs Daphne Lakin)
Class 1 : Novice – fences approx 2’6
Class 2 : Novice Pairs – fences approx 2’6
Class 3 : Intermediate – fences approx 3’0
Class 4 : Open – fences approx 3’3
For entry details and offers to help on the day or before contact jo.burdett@rocketmail.com
Click for Schedule and Conditions of Entry below :
CL&C Hunter Trials = Entry Form
Down Memory Lane (1) | 2003
09/04/12
We were recently reminded of one of the CL&C’s reactions to the imminent ban on foxhunting. OK, in hindsight and on Charles’s primitive mobile phone video, it’s a little like watching paint dry, but no-one - no-one - can question the determination of our hunt followers that their voice should be heard. Nor can they fault the scale of ambition in attempting to make it heard. Spelt out in 30 foot high letters are the words ‘NO BAN’. And none of us should ever forget that in a hurry.
No Ban fire (1)
No Ban fire (1)
The Season ends | March 10
13/03/12
Another season ended on a glorious note at Littleton Farm and The Toby Stone. For once it was a beautiful day and the vista from the field at the Toby Stone was as breathtaking as ever, though in the past few years we’ve only really been able to see as far as the nearest fence post...The field of 70 which started at Littleton trailed to the top and few if any were lost on the way. The Rev. David Brown, priest-in-charge of the parishes of Sutton with Bignor and Burton with Coates and Barlavington, blessed the hounds for the season just gone and the one to come. We are grateful to him and to David, Hilary and Edward Tupper (and to Angela who was out mounted), Annie Eccles, George Grammer and Sophie Granlund and their respective families.
The Masters would like now, as they did on Saturday, to thank you all for your tremendous show of support this season. We have been constantly amazed at how many of you enjoy your two days a week (and sometimes three) and deeply touched that so many of you have taken the trouble to say so. We have had a great time and are already planning season 2012/13. We have a team at the Kennels which is the envy of packs up and down the country (we know this for a fact) and we have had such brilliant support from our established landowners and several new ones as well. Thank you all very much. Next season, as you know, we lose - with great regret - Maria Shiner as a secretary. However, taking over from her will be Nadine Crouch and, knowing of her endless reserves of patience and her determination never to miss a day, we have every confidence in her! Charles Homan joins as a Master on May 1 but frankly he’s been working away behind the scenes for some time now that we can’t quite think of him as being ‘new’. We’ll look forward to seeing them and all of you at the Puppy Show. And then as summer ends, it all begins again...and we’ll see you then too!
The Masters would like now, as they did on Saturday, to thank you all for your tremendous show of support this season. We have been constantly amazed at how many of you enjoy your two days a week (and sometimes three) and deeply touched that so many of you have taken the trouble to say so. We have had a great time and are already planning season 2012/13. We have a team at the Kennels which is the envy of packs up and down the country (we know this for a fact) and we have had such brilliant support from our established landowners and several new ones as well. Thank you all very much. Next season, as you know, we lose - with great regret - Maria Shiner as a secretary. However, taking over from her will be Nadine Crouch and, knowing of her endless reserves of patience and her determination never to miss a day, we have every confidence in her! Charles Homan joins as a Master on May 1 but frankly he’s been working away behind the scenes for some time now that we can’t quite think of him as being ‘new’. We’ll look forward to seeing them and all of you at the Puppy Show. And then as summer ends, it all begins again...and we’ll see you then too!