Foxhunting with Meadow Brook

by Judith Tabler

Overview

Foxhunting with Meadow Brook on Long Island, New York, was always about more than the fox, the hounds, or the horses. Meadow Brook was about its people—some powerful, some idle, many wealthy—and their shared joy in galloping across beautiful country, only minutes outside New York City. Doomed from its 1881 conception, the Meadow Brook hunt managed to survive for ninety years in spite of poor scenting, sandy soil, angry farmers, quirky millionaires, trolleys, trains, automobiles, and airplanes. Foxhunting with Meadow Brook tells the story of the people who, for almost a century, rode behind the Meadow Brook hounds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586671518
Publisher:	Derrydale Press
Publication date:	02/15/2016
Series:	Foxhunters Library
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	307,482
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Judith Tabler grew up near and has been a member of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club. She is an author, freelance writer and photographer, and has also been a professor of literature and languages at Marymount University. She lives in McLean, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Formation 1

2 Early Days 19

3 The Second Decade 53

4 Many Masters 87

5 The Huntsman 119

6 The Meadow Brooks 147

7 Losing Ground 183

8 The Competitions 223

Notes 249

Glossary 279

Bibliography 281

Acknowledgments 287

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

Well researched and accurate, this book is a veritable who's who of American foxhunting. Ms.Tabler details the leading characters, sportsmen and women of Long Island society, the good and the bad, but all authentic. The bonus is this book is fun and informative, a good read for anyone interested in New York City and sporting life in general. Many of the Meadow Brook members were accomplished in yachting, horse racing, polo, car racing, golf, etc., all over the world. An enjoyable gallop through one hundred years from 1871 to 1971, the fascinating stories kept me turning the pages.    

Penny Denegre

Foxhunting with Meadow Brook is an important book for all who are interested in the evolution of leisure activities and the important role that fox hunting played in the later part of the 19th Century....[It] provides  a detailed history of the Meadow Brook Hounds from our founding in 1881 to the end of the Hunt in  1971.

Rod Berens