BY GLENYE CAIN OAKFORD AND CHRISTOPHER OAKFORD
A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING The influential Grappler-Footloose line comes full circle.
CAPTAIN IAN FARQUHAR,
Master of the Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt in England, has been a regular traveler to the United States. But a particular visit he made in 2005 to visit Moore County Hounds Joint Master Dick Webb ended up being much more than a collegial reunion: It launched one of the most influential bloodlines in U.S. hunting. Traveling with Farquhar was a Beaufort bitch named Footloose ’03, who was carrying a litter of 11 puppies that eventually would be dispersed among six American hunts — and go on, either themselves or through their offspring, to be influential in the show ring and in the hunt field.
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