Woodbrook Hunt Club

03/01/2025

The WHC Mardi Gras Parties at the clubhouse were always at the top of the list of the most fun parties we put on each year! This year, Jessica Bradley and the WHC Board trustees are planning an even bigger and better party than in the past!

The Mardi Gras party is a very fun costume party, the traditional New Orleans theme is “Masquerade” and masks are definitely encouraged. Over the years, it’s been great fun guessing which member or friend is behind the mask and costume, so start planning your costume now! Everyone is invited, this party is for members, friends and family!

Our Mardi Gras party is Saturday, March 22nd, starting at 5 pm. Throughout the evening there will be multiple carnival games to play, a photo booth with props for lasting memories, a costume parade and judging with prizes for best male and female costume, a bead throwing contest, we’ll be crowning the King and Queen of the evening, and serving the “King Cake” which is a Mardi Gras tradition!

Dinner is a French/Cajun buffet of delicious foods, and after dinner, we’ll clear the floor and let the dancing begin! There will be a mix of New Orleans jazz with other popular dance songs, so you can dance the night away!

This is a fundraiser for our hardworking hounds! Tickets are $60. for adults and $35 for juniors under 18 yo, and includes the French/Cajun dinner, dessert, one drink ticket, party favors for all guests and an evening of fun, laughter and camaraderie, all to support the hounds!

Questions, or if you’d like to help with preparations, food or games, please contact Jessica Bradley at [email protected] or call/text her at 360-470-8564. Members, this is a great opportunity to get some volunteer hours in!

https://woodbrookhuntclub.app.resmarksystems.com/public/short/1nIV44zbFF

03/01/2025

TOMORROW: This Saturday WHC is hosting our annual “Ride for Life” hunt to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The event was founded by our member Rachel Waldman to honor her mother, Val Waldman. Val was a fixture in the Maryland equestrian community, a bone marrow recipient who ultimately lost her battle with breast cancer in 2014. The Ride for Life is a way for us, the equestrian community, to celebrate the many wonderful horse friends we have lost to cancer, or those who are undergoing treatment for cancer.

Wear Pink! The hunt is informal and we encourage riders and horses to wear pink! 💖🌸🌷🎀💄

The hunt will start at the clubhouse at 11 am. We’ll come back to a wonderful breakfast!



Please consider making a donation to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (tax deductible) to help them make their 2025 fundraising goals. All cancer survivors are welcome to join us, cap-free and all additional caps will go directly to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. https://give.bcrf.org/fundraiser/3583754

03/01/2025

Hunting hounds is all about the pack, or team, and foxhunting is a very social community-oriented sport!

This year WHC is holding a “Hound Draft” similar to the NFL football draft. Our four MFH’s (Melody, Tami, Lorna and Theresa) will be the team captains, and since Melody has won twice, Tami and Theresa have each won once, Lorna will get the first pick of the first round of hounds, in keeping with the “reverse order” of the football draft.

We’ll have four rounds, four hounds in each round, so each team will be supporting and cheering on that mini-pack of hounds during the Hound Challenge hunts of March 1st, March 8th and March 23rd.

After the packs are drafted Saturday, it’s time for members and friends to join a team 🐶 We will have awesome team prizes at the end of the challenge and a special one for the winning team 🏆

The minimum “donation” to join a pack is $100 yet you can donate any amount over $100 (remember, it’s all to support our hardworking hounds)!

If you can’t make it to the breakfast, and want to participate, email back to MFH Melody and she will help get you on your team of choice!

This Hound Draft is going to be a great time! Once you’re on a team, help the Master come up with a great team name!

So join us for hunt breakfast after Saturday’s Ride for Life hunt! The breakfast team will be serving beef stroganoff as the main course in front of a roaring fire! Breakfast is a $15 donation to our Hound Fund, and we hope everyone will pick at least one Hound Challenge team to support and cheer on!

Questions? Email MFH Melody!

02/28/2025

Let the DRAFT begin! Tomorrow after the Ride for Life hunt, Huntsman Jennifer Hansen will be running a Hound Challenge Draft, with four rounds of four hounds each, and each Master (Melody, Tami, Lorna and Theresa) will be the team captains! Lorna will be the first to choose as she is the only MFH who hasn't won yet, and when the teams are compelete, members and friends can donate to join their favorite team, or be on ALL the teams! Minimum donation is $100. and if you can't be there in person, email MFH Melody at [email protected], and she will help you donate and join the team you pick! GREAT prizes for the winners and everyone that donates will get a prize! Remember, this is a fundraiser for our hardworking hounds! Photo credit Sue Evans !

02/27/2025

After our Ride for Life hunt Saturday, WHC photographer Sue Evans will do a drawing of the names of participating riders that are or have battled cancer. Sue is donating a barnstorm photo shoot to the name chosen in the drawing (must ride on Saturday). Pictured is last year's winner, Hera Minkove!

02/27/2025

This Saturday is our "Ride For Life" Hunt, a way for us, the equestrian community, to celebrate the many wonderful horse friends we have lost to cancer, or those undergoing treatment or are survivors. All cancer survivors are invited to come and ride cap-free (no guest fee) even if they've never hunted before! The Hilltop flight will stay on TA 7N for a walk/trot trailride and the rest of the flights will ride over to hunt on TA 7S. The third flight is another option for new to the hunt riders, it's a walk/trot/canter flight with no jumping, and all jumps have go-arounds! Wear pink (horse and rider) or choose from the cancer ribbon colors below. We'll return to the clubhouse for a hearty hot hunt breakfast featuring beef stroganoff! Breakfast is a $15 donation to our Hound Fund. Questions? Email [email protected]" rel="ugc" target="_blank">[email protected]

02/27/2025

Join us for our BEST party of the year, our Mardi Gras Masquerade Party on March 22nd, start planning your costume and mask! Tickets are $60. adult/$35 under 18; includes party favors, one drink ticket, and an evening of fun and laughter to support our hounds!
Tickets: https://woodbrookhuntclub.app.resmarksystems.com/public/short/1nIV44zbFF

02/25/2025

Tuesday 2/25 - Hound Walk! We'll walk out 2-3 groups of hounds on foot from the kennels on TA 7N at 10am. Please sign into iSportsman for TA 7N if you'd like to join us!

02/15/2025

SAVE THE DATE - WHC is bringing back our Mardi Gras Masquerade Party on Saturday, March 22nd! Start planning your costumes, the fun includes a costume contest, crowning the Carnival King and Queen, Photo Booth, carnival games, Cajun/French buffet dinner and then the DANCE PARTY gets started! Invite all your friends and family to join in the fun, the link will be posted next week!

02/15/2025

Save the Dates! Spring Hunter Pace and new Triple Crown Series of Hunter Paces:
Spring Hunter Pace - Saturday, April 19th
Kentucky Derby Hunter Pace & Viewing Party - May 3rd
Preakness Stakes Hunter Pace & Viewing Party - May 17th
Belmont Stakes Hunter Pace & Viewing Party - June 7th
The Triple Crown Series Championships will be awarded at the WHC Closing Dinner on June 7th! The Champions of each flight receive prizes and a special photo shoot with the talented WHC photographer Sue Evans!

02/14/2025

WHC was THRILLED to win this award, the beautiful hand-painted platter and the $5,000. prize! Thank you to Dr. Mary Swindale, DVM for all her effort in making the application happen, and the MFHA Foundation for encouraging hunts to protect land and the endangered species that live there!

Congratulations to Woodbrook Hunt Club on their selection as the recipient of this year’s Hunting Habitat Conservation Award! Melody Fleckenstein, MFH, Jennifer Hansen, Huntsman; and Tamara Masters, MFH represented Woodbrook at the Annual Member Meeting where they gave an excellent presentation on their conservation efforts at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington where the hunt is located. Congratulations!
See our website for details! https://mfha.com/conservation-efforts/

02/14/2025

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02/14/2025

Happy Valentine's Day to all our members, friends and hounds!

02/08/2025

Join WHC tomorrow for a "Foot/Vehicle" Hunt! Enough of the frozen ground, we are hunting tomorrow on foot or you can participate from the warmth of your vehicle! The car caravan will leave the kennels at 10:30 am and we'll access the TA 8B fixture (Selden Prairie) via Eastgate Rd. The prairie will allow great viewing and a terrific opportunity to learn the hounds names, coloring, voices and watch them hunt before our Hound Challenge gets started! Make sure that you have your iSportsman vehicle permit displayed on your dashboard! Tally Ho!

02/06/2025

TA 7N is open this week, but the ground is still too frozen/unstable for mounted hunting. Thursday we'll be walking hounds out at 10 am from the kennels, members and guests are welcome to join us, please remember to sign into iSportsman for TA 7N.

It's likely we'll hunt on foot Saturday 2/8. An update will go out later this week, tally ho!

01/31/2025

As the club is honored this weekend to accept the Hunting and Habitat Conservation Award sponsored by the MFHA in NYC (MFH, Jt. Master, and Hon. Huntsman in attendance), we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that it also is overlapping with Jennifer’s birthday!

Happy Birthday to the best Hon. Huntsman in the game (in our entirely bias, not so humble opinion)! Enjoy the weekend away, you deserve it!