Mr B

After he retired the late Harry Roberts the legendary Huntsman of the Plas Machynlleth Foxhounds, kept one hound as a pet which he then hunted in the hills above Machynlleth on Sunday mornings. Initially it was old Monitor 63 but after he died it was Eryri Rouser'76, a brindle coloured Welsh hound which Harry deliberately kept rather fat so that he won't disappear out of view too soon! I was privileged to go out with him on a couple of Sundays and marvelled as the old boy cheered on his beloved hound with the same enthusiasm as he cheered on the flying Plas hounds in their heyday. We would t

I have it in the back of mind that this question has come up before, possibly in Hounds Magazine and I think the answer then was that it was Peter Ormerods Hounds which were a private pack of Staghounds hunting during the early part of the last century.

I counted seven packs in that clip of Welsh meets. Also spotted some great characters now sadly no longer with us.