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By BETSY BRANSCOME • Rappahannock News Staff Writer I* Nineteenyear-old Michael Brown has found a successful formula for juggling college classes, hunting the Rappahannock Hunt’s hounds and riding steeplechase races while at hnce retaining a laid-back and reserved demeanor that belies the fact that he is the youngest huntsman ever to officially hunt the Rappahannock County pack. ; “Michael has recently begun hunting the Rappahannock hounds in the absence of his father [official huntsman Oliver Brown,]” said Rappahannock Hunt Master of Foxhounds Larry LeHew. “He is just as cool with the hounds as he is with horses.”
The senior Brown is a professional horseman who travels to various thoroughbred and horse sales throughout the summer months when not hunting. Now that his son is old enough and experienced enough to hunt the hounds, Oliver handed over the reins to Michael ; while he traveled to Kentucky to work a thoroughbred sale.
On Dec. 19, at the Rappahannock Hunt junior meet held at Hayday Farm in Culpeper, Michael hunted the hounds for the first time under his father’s watchful eye. ' “I hunted them the second day of cubbing back in September,” Michael explained of the mostly crossbred Rappahannock pack. “And I took them out on the second day of the official season. But this was the first time for me to hunt the hounds while dad was here to watch.”
The annual junior meet was a most fitting trial for the younger Brown. A field of more than 60 riders — including nearly 30 children hunting behind junior field masters Innis Nelson and Ashley Settle — took to the hills for a big day of sport. “We jumped what seemed like ;a covey of foxes at the very first co
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