A seriously sporting set-up

A lovely Welsh hound is supreme champion at a reorganised and revitalised show

The skills your horse learns on the hunting field can equip him for a surprising array of summer disciplines, finds Tessa Waugh

The Albrighton and Woodland take both championships at the first of the summer’s major hound shows

Three stellar estates in Wales and Staffordshire show how careful restoration is always worth the effort

It’s not all doom and gloom, says James Walshe

“No gate is too big” for this veteran hunt horse, who is king of the yard and “does what he wants to” – as long as it doesn’t involve pigs