The first course of the day is Borzoi, and now it's off through the sagebrush. The huntmaster has to keep yelling at the gallery to stay together and behind the hunt dogs. The huntmaster looks to be sure it's a jack and not a cottontail. Then he or she looks to see if one of the hunt dogs is sighted. There are no preslips but the handler of the blue dog was caught off guard and gets a late slip, so blue dog is 2 lengths behind.
Pink dog has a go-by on yellow and moves in on the jack, which wrenches right, but pink stays close.
They come to a wash, about 2 feet deep and 6 feet wide. The jack is across in no time but pink and yellow slow to go through the wash. Blue comes up fast and flies right over the wash, landing in a bunch of breaking sagebrush. This gives blue the lead, and she closes on the jack, forcing one turn to the left, then another turn to the right. This slows the jacks forward advance and allows the other 2 dogs to close on blue dog and the jack.