The sound, smell and adrenaline of your first day's hunting isn't something you forget in a hurry, whatever age you are. Take a look at these riders enjoying their first day out — and standby for flying pigtails and legs that don't go past the saddle flap...
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Isabella Wright at her first opening meet with the Grove and Rufford aged two, with her four-star event rider dad Matthew Wright
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Barnaby Gillbard, aged four, with his pony Jack Sparrow out with the Tiverton Foxhounds (all the sandwiches, sausage rolls and cake were a highlight)
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Suzy Stephens’ five-year-old daughter out with Royal Artillery. She had her pink hat silk on so she could be spotted in the fog on Salisbury Plain…
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Two-and-a-half-year-old James Jones out with the Crawley & Horsham — on his 29-year-old pony
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Kaiah Marsh, aged seven, on her section A Mr Pigsy with the Carmarthenshire
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Natasha Platts, aged six, out with the Grove and Rufford Hunt on her pony Summer
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Emily Hall, aged six, hunting with the Longford Harriers in Co Longford
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Jemima Matthews, aged 12, out with the Kent and Surrey Bloodhounds
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Eight-year-old Heidi White out with the North Herefordshire on her pony Moluccas Juniper Jewel
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Nine-year-old Honey and 10-year-old Mackenzie (who came back caked in mud and beaming from ear to ear) out with the VWH
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Bella Munton, aged four, at the Woodland Pytchley opening meet on her pony Blue
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Stewart Beattie and Smurf at the Donegal Harriers children’s meet in Stranorlar, Co Donegal
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Ralph Mann, enjoying his first afternoon of autumn hunting with his brother Albie, out with the Dunston Harriers
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Aminta Dawson, age six, out hunting for the first time with the High Peak on her pony Ellie May (despite the early start and the misty day she loved it)
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Four-year-old Chloe Ford out for her first time on her Shetland Storm with the Eastern Harriers
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Emma Gaffney, aged two, on her mini Shetland Whisper out with the Dumfriesshire and Stewartry Foxhounds
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