Red-letter days

Hunting can be an all-consuming passion – and lifestyle – but what about those long-suffering partners who are left behind? Tessa Waugh investigates

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

With hunting under attack in the UK, how is the sport faring in Ireland? Octavia Pollock talks to the new chairman of the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association, Pat Hayes, to find out

Gone, but never forgotten – Kate Johnson unearths the stories behind the spectacular horses that have given their names to trophies

Mary was as good as any lad – and she was going to prove it

In the latest of his occasional series about great foxhunters he knew personally, Alastair Jackson considers Simon Clarke, from whom he took over the South Dorset hounds