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By Betsy Parker
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Taking an ancient game and making it new, the inaugural Virginia Foxhound Performance Trials last week gave four area hunts a chance to show off the best of the best. The Bull Rim Hunt and Rappahannock Hunt hosted the March 22-24 event, with hounds from the Rockbridge Hunt and Deep Run Hunt also taking part.
Organizer Oliver Brown explained that although judged field trials — in which judges mark individual hounds for singular performance — are a longstanding tradition in Virginia and around the nation, performance trials are a relatively new game.
“Unlike the field trials, where you just have an overall individual winner, at a performance trial, you’re adding up scores of all the hounds to get a ‘pack score,’ “ Brown said.
“Basically, this is an all-star meet,” said judge Epp Wilson,
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