Nov 14 - Glenmore Hunt Club

Glenmore
November, 2014
News
A Publication of The Glenmore Hunt, est. 1930
Secretary’s Corner
Volume 25, Issue 11
Calendar of Events
The November 4, 2014
meetings will be held at the
home of Mary Lee and Fred McDavid
62 Pine Top Rd., Ft. Defiance, Va.
540-292-9634
The Board will meet at 7:00 PM followed
at 8:00 PM by the Membership.
As always, please feel free to bring snacks.
Brenda Simmons, Hon. Secretary
Oct. 25 – Opening Day of Hunting at Cottage Hill
Oct. 26 – Rockbridge Hunter Pace
Nov. 1 - Joint Meet at Rockbridge Hunt (Opening)
Nov. 15–29 – No hunting, deer season
Nov. 16 – Glenmore Hunter Pace
Nov. 18 – Joint meet at Farmington Hunt
Dec. 6 - Glenmore Christmas Party at Burnett’s
Dec. 13 – Junior Day with Glenmore Hunt
From the President
Those of us who participated in the Four Hunt Weekend are still drying out but it was
wonderful to visit Oakridge, Rockbridge and Bedford hunt territories and enjoy the
camaraderie of our fellow foxhunters. Be sure to ask Stacy Thompson about her
harrowing truck and trailer experience. Thank you to Jane Gardner, MFH at Bedford for
allowing Sandy Cryder, Cindy Kiser, Mary Lee and Waverly McDavid and Berk
Pemberton to camp on your property prior to the Bedford hunt. Many subjects of
tailgate conversation can be had around our camping experience!
The finance committee had a productive meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 14. Thank you to
John Meyer, our treasurer, for providing clear cut information including a pie graph
showing exactly how income and expenses work for our club. For once, my eyes didn't
glaze over when money was discussed!! While not "rolling in dough" it appears
Glenmore is financially sound. Be sure to attend the November 4 hunt club meeting. All
members should be kept informed of the financial matters of our club. It becomes
obvious why our fundraising events are so important. Hounds must be fed and housed
24/7 year round!
Mahalo! (keeping Hawaii in mind as cold weather approaches!)
Sandy Cryder, President
Master’s Corner
I’m pleased to report that the Eighty-Fifth season with the Glenmore Hunt is off to a
fantastic start! Hounds have been hunting well; honoring each other; and staying together
working our coverts. Huntsman Dan Jones, MFH has done a great job introducing hounds to
our pack and territory based on the weather and fixture. Our Whippers-in continue to ensure
hounds are focused on the day’s sport. As you are riding to hounds please remember to carry
your hunting license, be mounted ten minutes early, and give way to the staff and hounds –
always!
The Glenmore Hunt recently participated in a Four-Day Foxhunting Weekend with Oak
Ridge Fox Hunt Club, Rockbridge Hunt, and Bedford County Hunt. Having ridden in all four
joint meets, I am proud to report that the members of Glenmore provided great hospitality,
welcomed our guests, and prepared an awesome hunt breakfast! Our delayed start allowed
the weather to pass, the rain to absorb into the ground preventing damage to fields and
pasture. Thanks to Stacy Thompson and crew for organizing a festive stirrup cup complete
with an Autumn Apple cocktail and homemade pumpkin roll. As our three fields of members
and guests positioned ourselves on either ends of the Walnut Grove cornfields, our hounds
provided great music as they sought their quarry. From the hills above the cornfields we
viewed the quarry crossing open pasture – what a sight! As Whippers-in moved into position
to ensure hound safety, we viewed the Glenmore Hounds in full cry right on the line left by the
quarry. This made our rainy Foxhunting Weekend worth the extra effort to dry tack and kit for
the Rockbridge and Bedford hunts. Jenner Brunk once again outdid herself coordinating a
wonderful hunt breakfast complete with a variety of hearty soups, roasted veggies, and
desserts that included pumpkin crisp. Thank you to everyone who participated in the Glenmore
hosting of the Foxhunting Weekend.
Glenmore Puppy Naming – the Glenmore Hunt was recently blessed with a litter of
puppies. Thank you to the many members who submitted suggestions for Wabbit’s puppies.
The puppies will soon be named and continue their organized puppy socialization. Those who
participated in the puppy names will be invited to a Puppy Playdate. I’ll be happy to introduce
any member of the Glenmore Hunt to our latest additions; socialization of these puppies is
important to their introduction into the Glenmore Hunt pack.
The Glenmore Hunt club will host our Junior Hunt on Saturday, Dec. 13 th. We’ll be
inviting local barns and youth organizations including the Glenmore Hunt Pony Club. If you
have an association with an organization you’d like invited to our Junior Hunt, please share
that contact information with me.
Joe Manning, MFH
Socially Speaking
Glenmore’s annual Christmas party will be held on Saturday, December 6, 2014 beginning at 6
p.m. Missy and John Burnett have graciously offered to host the party again this year at their home at
845 Chinquapin Drive, Lyndhurst, Virginia 540-943-9774. Please bring a favorite dish to share. Watch
for more details in the December newsletter.
HOUND SOUNDS
Sedgefield Vacuum 2007
Sponsor: Available
Sedgefield Vacuum ’07 was drafted to Glenmore in late June of 2014. His sire is Red Mountain
Holligan ’02 with his dam being Red Mountain Voodoo ’02. His lineage goes back to the PennMaryDel
packs of Marlboro, Ford, Addis, and DeLaBrook. I am sure the whippers-in of several years back will
remember the sisterly duo of Virginia and Voodoo. They were hard hunting, fox finding, highly talented
hounds that surely added to the good hunting of that time. They had a little bit of a reputation as being
intensely dedicated to the quarry that at times inspired some specific thoughts in the minds of some of
the whips. Vacuum hunts with that same determination, though is a little more biddable. Being
somewhat more of a blocky build he lacks some of the quickness of the likes of Evelyn and Frances;
however his no-nonsense approach to hunting and drive often puts him close to the front runners.
In the kennel his “top dog” attitude results in keeping him with the other big dog, Trigger. I think
that they have come to a space and food-sharing agreement. In the pack on walk or hunting his
attitude does not manifest itself in that this drive and self-confidence is projected into his hunting rather
than into his relations with the other hounds. Vacuum is a welcome addition to Glenmore’s pack.
Dan Jones, MFH
SONGWRITER SCOTT MILLER TO PERFORM
Glenmore landowner and songwriter Scott Miller will be performing at Court Square
Theater’s Songwriters in the Round on Thursday, October 30, 2014. Scott and his wife Thea
recently moved back to Windy Hill Farm in Swoope, the farm where he was raised and his
parents, Dr. Richard (Doc) and Jean Miller, still live. Scott, who has had a successful music
career in Knoxville, Tennessee, decided that it was time to return to his roots on the farm.
Tickets for Songwriters in the Round may be purchased online at
www.valleyarts.org/court-square-theater. Costs are $20 in advance or $25 at the door.
FOUR HUNT WEEKEND
Glenmore hosted the Four Hunt Weekend on Saturday, October 11, 2014 at
Walnut Grove. The rainy weather kept some of our friends from Oak Ridge, Rockbridge
and Bedford Hunts from attending, but we did have visitors from Sewickley Hunt in
Pennsylvania and Yadkin Valley Hounds in North Carolina.
Dwight Phelps recently purchased a Garmin 320 receiver and the associated
software so he and Jewell could keep track of the hounds from their truck. This is in
addition to the receiver Kennelman Mike Hidecker uses. Glenmore now has six GPS
collars which can all be tracked at once. The hounds found the misty, foggy weather to
their liking and ran hard in the cornfields at Walnut Grove and on to Robby Riley’s corn.
The photo below is from Dwight’s Garmin and shows the individual tracks of the six
hounds wearing the GPS collars. The single track on the right side of the photo if from
the entire pack roading across the Walnut Grove pastures, making a hook and being cast
into a cornfield. They found in the second, L-shaped cornfield and pursued a red fox
across the pasture, under the fence between Walnut Hill and Riley’s and into Riley’s
triangular-shaped cornfield in the lower left of the photo. The fox determined that the
better part of valor was to go to ground but a coyote immediately jumped up and ran back
to the Walnut Grove corn. Then back again and back again until the other two coyotes in
the corn had left the area and the first one holed up. At this point Huntsman Dan Jones,
MFH decided to pick up the pack since most of our visitors were out of horses. Dan is
justifiably proud of the way the hounds work as a pack. While the hounds rode down the
road at the bottom of the photo in the truck the riders hacked back to the fixture for a
wonderful tailgate which was organized by Jenner Brunk. Thanks to Dwight for sharing
this image with us.
GLENMORE INVITED TO VTO SADDLERY
On Friday, November 21, 2014 Glenmore members are invited to an open house at
VTO Saddlery, 115 Miller St., Broadway, Va. VTO is hosting this open house especially for
Glenmore members and will offer food and discounts of 15% on various items for foxhunters,
excluding saddles and consignment items. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the store will remain
open until 8 p.m. Come out and join your friends and grab a bargain while enjoying the evening
at one of Glenmore’s Hunt Sponsors.
Huntsman Dan Jones, MFH with Whipper-in Missy Burnett at Trimble’s Mill on a beautiful fall day.
Photo thanks to Liz Hall.
Glenmore News is published by Glenmore Hunt, Inc. for
distribution to members and friends of Glenmore.
Contribution Deadline: 20th of each month
Publication Date: By the 25th of each month
Editor: Jan Jones email: [email protected]
Glenmore Hunt website: www.glenmorehunt.org
Glenmore Hunt address: P.O. Box 396
Staunton, VA 24402-0396
Glenmore makes no representations, warranties or assurances
as to the accuracy of the information in this publication.
Glenmore Hunt Board of Directors
President: Sandy Cryder
Vice President: Hugh Sproul, III
Hon. Secretary: Brenda C. Simmons
Treasurer: John Meyer
MFHs: G. Daniel Jones, L. Cynthia Kiser, Joseph P. Manning
Member at Large (hunt status): Mary Lee McDavid
Member at Large (hunt status): Janet B. Jones
Member at Large (non-hunt status): Jewell Phelps
Member at Large (non-hunt status): Robert C. Heitler
Did You Know? Foxes are omnivores; in addition to the usual meat in their diets they also eat wild fruits
such as wild cherries, grapes, apples, and persimmons and fallen beechnuts and acorns and sometimes even
shelled hickory nuts.
Glenmore Hunt, Inc.
P.O. Box 360
Staunton, VA 24402-0396
Staunton, VA 24402-0396