Eastern union

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

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

Ahead of the season finale, which took place as H&H went to press, we caught up with some of last weekend’s winners

Sharon Thomas on the appeal of local shows, an ill-timed back flip, the joyful chaos of entertaining children – and smuggled dogs

East Anglia appears to be full of wonders, from carriage driving and an escaped puma to a Harrods pavilion and ancient forests, as these houses show

Tessa Waugh introduces her hunting husband to the “foreign” experience of an international horse trials, where a glamorous lunch party warms his initial froideur