Were you hunting with either the Fernie or the Hurworth Hunts when the H&H hunting correspondents paid a visit? If so, why not take a look at the gallery below to see if you were spotted by our photographers.
Fernie
H&H visited on the final day of the Fernie’s season to mark the retirement of senior-master Joe Cowen who has been a master of this pack since 1972. Huntsman Derek Hopkins was hunting the Fernie hounds for the final time before moves on to pastures new on 1 May.
With large areas of grassland, the Fernie country was formerly part of the Quorn but was deemed too large to hunt so Sir Richard Sutton allowed his son to hunt part of the country from 1853. Following a boundary dispute, the Quorn relinquished all claim to the country which now enjoys great support.
Eventer Angus Smales crosses the country in style
Charlie Wallace
Will Graham, Lord Onslow and Charles Millington
Hayley Clarke and Becky Little
Derek Hopkins, Lucy Bland, Julia Rattray and Charlotte Hignett
Mark Curtis-Bennett and Omar Curtis-Bennett
Pictures by Peter Nixon
View all the pictures of the Fernie Hunt
Hurworth
Joe Townsend retires after 32 years of hunt service at the end of this season and our correspondent visited the meet at the kennels on his final day hunting the hounds. One of the oldest packs in the country, the Hurworth are an Old English pack, with the hounds being predominantly tan in colour and slightly thicker set than the modern foxhound.
The country lies in North Yorkshire, Durham and Cleveland with the Zetland, Bedale and Bilsdale amongst the neighbouring packs.
Jack Andrews, whipper-in
Catherine Shorten
Fiona Leng
Emma and Annabel Dearden
Kieley Alderson
Master Stuart Allen
Jessica Bedi
Pictures by Peter Nixon
