Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… pursuit. The property qualifications required to shoot game effectively shut all but the most privileged one percent of society out. But with no qualification needed to hunt foxes, the sport’s defenders could legitimately claim that anyone … an accident happen’, and the fact that it deprived gentlemen riders ‘of the agreeable change and variety which their society makes in the evening’ in support of his argument that the ladies should keep clear of the hunting field. 5 5 . …
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