‘a disarming wit and a deep knowledge and love of the countryside’

In the latest of his series about great foxhunters he knew personally, Alastair Jackson tells us about Captain Brian Fanshawe, master and huntsman of several premier league packs, including the Galway Blazers and the Cottesmore

The HH wins the doghound championship for the first time, while the Beaufort claim a 60th title

Will Bryer on coveting a hound’s sense of smell, novel excuses for falling off and having to accept his wife is always right

Despite shying at “anything and everything”, this field master’s horse is “proper hunter” and a brilliant jumper

The piece I’d never part with

Robert Blane on the value of the B test, a late foray into point-to-pointing and how endurance teaches key life skills