Meantime, efforts to improve the Hounds have borne some fruit, winning prizes at the South of England Hound Show and the Peterborough Royal Foxhound Show, one of the young doghounds being made Reserve Champion there in 1998. More importantly, the numbers of foxes killed has increased steadily since the pack was formed in 1985, proving their worth as a valuable part in the management of the fox population.

Modern farming methods have led to enormous changes since the days of Colonel Cook and Squire Osbaldeston. The growth of traffic with all the smells of exhausts and the sprays and fertilizers constantly applied to the winter corn and oil seed rape make the Hounds' tasks infinitely more difficult, but the modern Foxhound has met these challenges in a marvellous way, continuing to provide good sport and great interest and pleasure to those who enjoy watching them puzzling out the line of a fox, or the thrill of a good ride across the country.

Our thanks go to our farmers and all those others who make it possible.