About Shakerag Hounds

Sixty years have passed since a group of horse and hunting enthusiasts at Chastain Park in North Atlanta started what was to become the Shakerag Hounds. The club then moved to the outer fringes of North Fulton County to a member's farm. In the early nineteen sixties the hunt purchased property located just across the Fulton County line in Forsyth County, where we stayed for almost thirty years. In 1991 the hunt relocated to our present site in Madison County. Shakerag Hounds has always been about change, but anchored in 300 years of foxhunting tradition. As we embark into a new decade of club life, we are building on sixty years of dedication, financial commitment, and sweat equity by the membership, with the help and support of the community and landowners.

It is only through the continued hard work of the membership, the graciousness of the community, and the generosity of the landowners, that we all will continue to enjoy the tradition of foxhunting. It is important to remember the most lasting reward of riding to the hounds is the comradeship of friends enjoying the mystical communion of a day in nature's cathedral.

Tally ho,
Richard S. Washburn, MFH
Daryl Buffenstein, MFH

Shakerag Past Masters