Turning to a new career

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

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

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

Mark Bycroft on why 20% of his work is about putting horses down and 80% is dealing with their owners’ grief

Gentle, soulful and elegant, greyhounds inspire unending devotion among their many admirers–not least Dame Jilly Cooper and Twiggy–discovers Katy Birchall

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