As winter relinquishes its grip, Tessa Waugh enjoys a copybook meet, with convivial chat, springy turf and good sport – while the real hunting aficionados demonstrate their teleporting skills

With 36 years in hunt service behind him, Robert McCarthy is one of the country’s most senior and most respected huntsmen. He talks to Tessa Waugh about Crufts, the current situation and life in Northumberland

The relentlessly positive spirit of the VWH hounds and their huntsman is infectious during a good day’s sport

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Tessa Waugh tries to distance herself from a fledgling romantic relationship, and while her needy steed doesn’t quite play ball and threatens to disrupt the proceedings, the lovebirds couldn’t care less

In the latest of his series about great foxhunters he knew personally, Alastair Jackson reflects on Brian Gupwell, who got The King hooked on hunting