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Mr. Swanbeck, after many years of crucial and highly esteemed service to the Hunt, retired as Joint Master in February, 1993. He was succeeded by the Hunt's very bold and most popular field master, Mrs. Margot Case. With her husband, Phil, Mrs. Case was a noted breeder of the grievously threatened Akhal-Teke horse, which, together, they had brought to the United States from the Soviet Union and were working to save. Those who have followed Margot Case over the Middlebrook Country know her for a valiant and skillful rider of the greatest distinction. She "gives a lead" over places that themselves give, as one distinguished English visitor put it, "a bit of a queasy question!"

Those who had enjoyed hunting with Mr. Getty and Mrs. Case in the early 1990's and who, after an interval, have come back for more wonderful sport ten years later always ask, "Why did you change your name?"

Fox-hunts often reproduce by binary fission. In the early 1990's, a number of Glenmore members found it preferable to have their own establishment, and they and the Masters parted company. The Glenmore Hunt Club, Inc., a Virginia corporation dating from 1948, was, after extensive discussion and negotiation, legally dissolved, and its various assets were divided between the two groups who were, thereafter, to go their independent ways. The Masters and their friends, almost all of whom resided in the Middlebrook area, received $12,500, while the other group, in return, received the right to exclusive use of the Glenmore name. These Glenmore members repaired to the northern portion of the former, undivided Glenmore's territory and established there a new pack, new kennels, new staff, new legal organization, and whole new hunting establishment, which became the Glenmore Hunt of the present day. They are an entirely separate hunting entity and are not connected with the Hunt whose Masters remain, to this day, Mr. Getty and Mrs. Case.