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Major landowners ‘bullied’ into banning trail-hunting
NCH KH Guy Fitzearle with HH KH Martin Livy in background in silhouette, huntingTHE hunting community has been hit with a double loss of country as the National Trust and Natural Resources Wales (NRW)...
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9 ways to impress on the hunting field
If you’re keen to show willing and impress on the hunting field, take a look at these useful tips from Tessa Waugh1. You have far more of a chance of being helpful if you pay attention to what is going...
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‘A real credit to their owners’: success for new format as RoR racing to...
Ri-Dry Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) Racing to Hunting Challenge winner Sire Collonges, pictured with rider Tom Jonason.Retrained racehorse Sire Collonges added a new crown to his collection in his...
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New hunting governing body proposed in review to ‘promote and protect the...
Library image. A REVIEW of the governance of hunting will look at the potential for a new governing body, so the community can “move forward to preserve, promote and protect the sport we all love”....
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‘As pointless as it is ill-founded’: move to ban hunting in Northern Ireland...
Library imageA “poorly thought-out” bill to end hunting in Northern Ireland has been rejected following criticism that it is unworkable and “risks criminalising ordinary people”. The Hunting of Wild...
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7 hip flasks to give you nerves of steel
If you’re new to hunting or buying for someone but don’t hunt yourself, you might be surprised to learn there are a number of features that promote what you might think is an average hip flask to one...
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No decline in popularity of festive meets, after 17 years of the Hunting Act
The Essex with Farmers & Union Hunt at its "Boxing Day" meet on 27 DecemberThe popularity of festive meets shows no signs of waning, nearly 17 years after the Hunting Act came into force. Most...
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‘It’s important to give back’: hunts donate Christmas gifts for children and...
Boxes filled with gifts by the Worcestershire’s members and supporters.Members of the hunting community donated more than 100 boxes of gifts for vulnerable children this Christmas. Supporters and...
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New year proposal fulfils rider’s dream — after horse knocks his front teeth out
When Kieran Baslington told his partner Will Price he would like to be proposed to either out hunting or on top of the London Eye, Will knew there was only one option. Matters did not go entirely...
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Highly respected professional huntsman switches careers to work in racing
BELVOIR huntsman John Holliday is retiring from hunt service and will become trainee clerk of the course at Hereford racecourse at the end of the season. John, who hunted with the Cumberland Farmers as...
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Rob Williams: The battle to keep ‘a fine old tradition’... and how to win it
We must be proactive to keep hunting in existence, says joint-master and huntsman of the East Sussex and Romney Marsh Rob WilliamsIN the last thousand years, Battle Abbey on the south coast has seen...
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Farewell to a gentleman steeped in hunting and its promotion
By Stephen Lambert MR BARCLAY, who has died aged 62, was steeped in hunting and its promotion. From the fourth generation of this famous hunting family and son of Captain Charlie Barclay, joint-master...
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Right place, right time: epic horse catch caught on camera
There are times when as a rider — or a photographer — it’s all about being in the right place at the right time, and doing the right thing. An unscheduled ground inspection by a rider at the East Essex...
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Robert Walker: ‘Hunting teaches horses to be true workmen’
Robert Walker on why winter for show horses isn’t the same as it used to be Robert Walker out hunting with his son Sam. DURING my twenties, winter was a very different experience as a horseman. After...
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Seven horses, seven packs, seven days: Frank Furlong takes on the challenge
Hunting seven horses on seven days with seven packs is not for the faint-hearted — but the aptly named Frank Furlong did it in style, and has the hip flask to prove it. Tom Guilding, of DG Equine in...
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Meet Laura Collett’s H&H cover star Moonlight Charmer: ‘He’s flourished from...
Laura Collett hunting Moonlight Charmer with the Beaufort. Laura Collett says a couple of months hunting has changed advanced eventer Moonlight Charmer from “a bit precious” to looking and feeling “a...
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‘Forthright, eloquent, passionate’: tributes paid to breeder Janet George
Former CA press officer, and Irish draught breederJanet George, the hunt supporter and passionate Irish draught breeder, died at home on 21 November, aged 72, from a heart condition. Born Miss...
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Tiny rider and ‘cantankerous’ 12.2hh’s river-crossing skills caught on camera
A very young rider and her “cantankerous” 12.2hh mare showed exactly how it’s done as they took on a river so deep they had to swim. Vicky Perry “stuffed her crop in her jacket” to take this action...
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20-month-old rider becomes third generation of supporters at family meet
A 20-month-old rider who rode his aunt’s first pony to his first trail-hunting meet completed three generations of his family following the hunt. Tiny Eddie Trenerry and 23-year-old Noodles joined his...
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‘A real buzz’: Olympic showjumper takes two Golden Buttons in first hunt race
at Tirley near Cheltenham in the UK on the 12th February 2022British Olympic showjumper Holly Smith demonstrated her all-round horsemanship by finishing third in her first hunt race, the Ledbury’s...
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