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its split from the “Culpeper” was a result of the increasingly apparent lack of concern of the organization with landowners’ prerogatives. That the right to hunt on someone’s property implied a real obligation and commitment to steward that property—to care for it as though it were one’s own.
That the lack of concern by the “Culpepers” is leading to the refusal, by more and more landowners, to permit the Hunt the use of their land and may lead, if the “Thornton Hill” pack is not sanctioned, to the wholesale refusal of Rappahannock landowners to permit hunting by the “Culpeper” group. The “Culpeper” contingent maintains that the split came as a result of the “Thornton Hill” pack’s dissatisfaction with last year’s election for Master of Foxhounds (MFH). That election added a coMaster, Oliver Brown, in his first year as MFH, to the leadership with Master Larry LeHew, who followed Jim Bill Fletcher as Master some twenty years ago.
A Thornton Hill Hunt and a Rappahannock Hunt? An extra point-topoint race in Rappahannock County, one sponsored by the Thornton Hill Hounds and one by the Rappahannock Hunt? A permanent withdrawal from Rappahannock County of the Rappahannock Hunt’s pointto-point race? A reconciliation of the two contingents that results in the return of the point-to-point races to Thornton Hill and the recommitment of the Rappahannock Hunt to the stewardship of the land on which they hunt? Time will tell.
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