The team chasing season concludes at the Cotswold with wins for non-thoroughbreds, while Team Fox Grant and Team Ride Away 4 also snatch victories

In the latest of his occasional series on greatest huntsmen he knew personally, Alastair Jackson recounts the life of the popular Sidney Bailey, who hunted the VWH for four decades

BICTON ARENA (2) 22–26 October

From Friesians to former racehorses, natives to draughts, partnerships of every type showed what dedication and good training can achieve

The Heythrop’s season gets off to a fine start at the opening meet

No horse to look after, a multi-generational community, great exercise and it costs peanuts. Tessa Waugh extols the joy of hunting with the “jelly dogs”