‘that golden thread, and a zest for life’

Michael Farrin’s brilliance across country was key to the peerless sport he provided for the Quorn field, says Alastair Jackson in his latest piece about great hunting men he knew

A Blencathra bitch is champion for the third year running, and there’s emotion round the ring when a Cumbria beagle takes the supreme

Clive Banwell on starting afresh at 65, preparing winners from the field and overcoming adversity

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Icon of London’s Swinging Sixties Terence Stamp ...

Unflashy and not always an easy ride, this chestnut huntsman’s horse is, nevertheless, reliable, tough and adores the hounds