Whether it is riding at a hunt fixture, competing in a spring or fall hunter pace, training a young horse on an off-season trail ride, or cubbing with the young hounds in the Fall, members take time to appreciate the beautiful countryside and one's equine companion as well as work the hounds. Each meet is ended with a traditional hunt breakfast where members enjoy each other's company and retell the events of the day's foxhunting/foxchasing sport.  In the early years, there were some wonderful Marlborough Hunt Club fixtures held mostly at lovely old estates in Prince George's County, such as "Beechwood," “Keokuk,” “His Lordship’s Kindness,” “Oakland,” "Montpelier," and “Blythewood,” which extended down along the Patuxent River.

Today, the Marlborough hunt country covers about 25 square miles and takes in parts of Prince George’s, Anne Arundel, Calvert counties. It is bounded on the north approximately by U.S. Highway 50, on the east by the Chesapeake Bay, on the west by the District of Columbia and the Potomac River, and south easterly to the town of Dares Beach in Calvert county. Marlborough’s country consists of rolling fields and pastures and woodland coverts with a number of trappy crossings. Fences are mostly coops with some board, natural, and post and rail fences.

The Kennels and turn-of-the-century Clubhouse are situated on Hunt Club property along the western shore of the Patuxent River near Hill’s Bridge, east of Upper Marlboro in Prince George’s County.  Marlborough Hunt Club was established in 1936 and recognized in 1949 by the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America.

Over one hundred years ago, November 1905, was The Great Foxhound Match between the American pack of Harry Worcester Smith and the English pack of Alexander Henry Higginson. In 2005 it probably would have been called a performance trial. If you are lucky enough to have a copy of Alexander Mackay-Smith’s book, The American Foxhound, you can read all about the match, including who was the winner, and more.

Interestingly enough, this match was significant to the Marlborough Hunt Club. Way back in 1938, MHC’s second professional Huntsman was a man from Virginia named Claude Hatcher. He was a whipper-in for the American pack. MFH Smith, as a token of his appreciation for a job well done, gave Claude Hatcher a horn. Mr. Hatcher treasured it during his life and gave it to his friend and boss, John Bowling, one of the first MFH’s of Marlborough. In turn, John Bowling’s widow, Rhoda gave this horn, and a number of other horns belonging to her husband, to the Club.