As winter relinquishes its grip, Tessa Waugh enjoys a copybook meet, with convivial chat, springy turf and good sport – while the real hunting aficionados demonstrate their teleporting skills

Vets, doctors and volunteers all play a part in helping point-to-points run safely. Euan Laidlaw MRCVS outlines how they do so

With 36 years in hunt service behind him, Robert McCarthy is one of the country’s most senior and most respected huntsmen. He talks to Tessa Waugh about Crufts, the current situation and life in Northumberland

Independent nutritionist Clare MacLeod on transforming laminitics’ lives, helping old horses feel good and not feeding sausage rolls

It’s not easy bringing a string of horses in from the field solo at the best of times – let alone when frost lies thick and the yard resembles an ice rink. Tessa Waugh gets her lead ropes in a twist

H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen ponders the lasting impressions that influential hunting people can make on us