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Sidesaddle rider Amy Cattell Magee, winner of last year’s Best Turned Out Award.
Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls),” the Eurythmics’ “Sisters Are Doin’
It for Themselves”—the soundtrack
was a perfect fit for the proceedings on this brisk day in early March. The hits blasted from a set of speakers set up on Lydia Bartholomew’s Plumstead Farm in
Unionville as over 120 women gathered for Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds’ Vixen Hunt, an annual event that attracts female riders from up and down the East Coast and beyond.
A major component of the annual fox hunt was a lavish afternoon tea held in the barn. Attendees were greeted by a chandelier hanging above a statue of a fox surrounded by draped linens and accented with magnolia branches and forsythia in
full bloom. Silver platters, glassware and china covered the tables, awaiting guests. Also in the field that day was four-time
Olympic equestrian Boyd Martin, whose considerable charms had Coatesville’s Mamie Duff and others wondering exactly which “fox” they were chasing. “The men are all in to help us pull this off,” says Vixen Hunt organizer Rachel Wilkoski. “They were pouring champagne and clearing dishes, wearing tuxedos while doing it all.”
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