Wiktionary
follow the hounds
vb. To go hunting with dogs.
Usage examples of "follow the hounds".
The riders follow the hounds through the canebrakes, and also try to make cutoffs and station themselves at open points where they think the bear will pass, so that they may get a shot at him.
He should have forbidden her to follow the hounds and hawks - but she did so love the hunt.
She was unconvinced I had made the right decision to follow the hounds to their origins.
When the riders turned to follow the hounds out the Hunt Gate, he was behind them all.