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friendly. Our motto is —It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”’
In addition to foxhunting ; meets, the hunt holds trail rides, picnics, and a formal hunt ball throughout the year.
The social and administrative duties required of a ! Master have caused most J hunts to elect two or more ' joint-Masters. Rappahannock is one of the few remaining to have a single Master in i charge. LeHew quickly points out that he couldn't handle the ; job alone if it weren’t for his ; staff, secretary-treasurer Janet O’Keefe, of Reva, and hunt president David Ingram, from Rixewille.
With animal-rights activists opposing foxhunting in many parts of the world, LeHew defended the sport. “Nobody in the world loves animals more than foxhunters, especially me," he said. “Most of the time we don’t catch the fox. They love it as much as we do. I’ve seen them wait for the hounds to catch up. Foxhunting is a funny thing. On any given day, you have 40 athletes, the humans, on 40 athletes, the horses, following 40 athletes, the hounds, all following one great athlete, the fox. And probably the only one who knows where you are going is the fox."
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