The Spring Valley Hounds, which began in the New Vernon section of Harding Township, N.J., were scheduled to be hunting in a joint meet with the Amwell Valley Hounds from the Spring Valley Showgrounds Oct. 2 to commemorate the 100th year of the township’s founding.
Due to inclement weather, the meet has been postponed to Nov. 13.
The municipality was created in September 2022 from portions of Passaic Township following a referendum, and named after U.S. President Warren G. Harding. The area was once semi-rural, but as it developed, Spring Valley moved most of its operations north to Allamuchy, where there is more open space. For the last three years, however, Spring Valley has hunted in New Vernon once a year.
At the meet, Tim Brogan will be donating the scarlets that belonged to his late grandfather, Bill Keegan, a longtime supporter of Spring Valley, “in the hope of paying them forward for future riders who get their colors with SVH.”