Cheshire police inspector John Martin said: "No arrests were made and the hunts passed off peacefully. There were lots of supporters out on the day but no incidents of any kind."
Jane Evans, from the League against Cruel Sports, said members had been filming the activities throughout the day but there was no evidence of illegal hunting.
She said: "In Cheshire it appears people stayed within the law and we would applaud them for that."
Across England and Wales 250 separate hunts operated within the law. Onlookers said there was little discernible difference in the "new format" of drag hunting..
It involves flushing foxes out of a wood and shooting them before their scent is left as a trail for the hounds.
The Countryside Alliance reported 91 foxes were killed.
A spokesman said most were shot although some were also unintentionally caught by hounds.
The Alliance's chief executive, Simon Hart, said the law "cannot, and will not, work".
Speaking at the Duke of Beaufort's Hunt, Didmarton, Gloucestershire, where over 3,000 people gathered, he said: "Today this defiant and determined response of hundreds of thousands of people has started the process of dismantling the Hunting Act.
"Legislation which is rejected by every single person it is meant to affect, and which can never be properly policed, simply cannot stand the test of time."
Despite the massive turnout and a few stand-offs between opposing groups, police reported only four arrests.
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