The beginning of the Fox hunt in Jersey.

The Jersey Drag Hunt becomes easier to research reliably from 1876 onwards, when Lieutenant David Lascelles started a pack of drag hounds for the 47th regiment. Hunting was very popular in England by this time and hounds were imported from across the English Channel. In 1877, it appears that James Smyth Piggot of Brockley Court, near Bristol, became the first master of this Hunt.

From 1876, the history of hunting, racing and point to pointing become particularly strongly intertwined in Jersey, as the ‘Channel Island Racing and Hunt Club’ became the governing body for all three sports.

This exciting cross-country dash, incorporating some impressive natural obstacles, was a regular competition in Jersey, until as recently as 1999.