Turning to a new career

Can you hunt hounds and race-ride? How compatible are the two sports – and can you fit both in? Tessa Waugh finds out

David Barker’s skills as a horseman were equalled by his proficiency when carrying the horn, Alastair Jackson explains in the latest of his series about great huntsmen he knew personally

A racehorse’s groom knows all their likes and quirks, so who better to take them into their second career ? Jennifer Donald meets those who have done just that

The Boekelo designer Adrian Ditcham on watching horses jump, paint pantones and dreaming up a Burghley track

Autumn trail-hunting has arrived, but Tessa Waugh is more concerned with matters closer to home as her husband is “replaced” with a terse stranger on her first morning back out

Tessa Waugh wonders whether lingering in Downton Abbey waking dreams might be more enticing than rousing two teens for autumn hunting, but finds herself pleasantly surprised