Latest News

The Society of Equine Artists held their Annual Award Ceremony at Sally Mitchell’s gallery in Tuxford Notts  on Sunday 16th September.  After some careful browsing and long discussion we were delighted to award the Baily’s Hunting Directory Best ‘Hunting Picture’ to Robin (Sir Stephen) Furness for his painting entitled ‘The Bedale Friar Ings’.  The SEA...

For 40 years E and S feeds, the people behind the highly regarded Cobbydog feeds,  have been manufacturing complete dog foods and protein pellets together with a high quality and palatable hound mix. Recently they have have looked at the health needs of older dogs (both pet and working) and now have the capability to...

The Hound Show season was quickly drawing to a close when the Hunting World came to the wonderful setting of Lowther Park for one of the last of the major Hound Shows.  The show, since it’s rejuvenation some years ago has been surpassing itself each year and 2018 was no exception.  With 43 packs and...

Now in its thirty-ninth year, the Society of Equestrian artists  Open Annual exhibition, ‘The Horse in Art’ takes place at the Stunning Sally Mitchell Gallery, The Newcastle Arms, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, NG22 0LA. Sally Mitchell Fine Art is an internationally renowned fine art publisher and her gallery also houses the fascinating ‘Museum of the Horse’ an...

Six finalists and two reserves have been selected by a panel of judges to appear in the final of the 2018 RoR Racing to Hunting Challenge at Aintree’s Countryside Day on Sunday 28th October. The winner of the Racing to Hunting Challenge will be the former racehorse adjudged to have best adapted to their second...

Great News! Months of hard work have finally paid off and Great Days Two our new 200pp hardback containing an assortment of:- anecdotes, fictional tales, hunt teports  and thought provoking articles on the management of hounds and kennels from every corner of the world of hunting with hounds has arrived. We have made sure that...

James Sharnberg MBH reports on the 2018 Bryn Mawr Hond Show With the shift of the Julian Marshall award to the Friday Night Bryn Mawr Hound Show dinner, competition kicked off on June 1st under surprisingly clear skies with the Junior Whip Cracking Division.  Henry Nylen representing Middletown Valley Beagles took home the whip handle...

The Essex Foxhounds and their neighbours the Farmers and Union have merged as of 1st May 2018 to form the Essex with Farmers and Union

The Court Lees Bloodhounds are a new Bloodhound pack recently formed by Mr Liam Page and Mr Sam Arbon, as Joint Masters to start in the 2018/19 Season. The decision to set up a new pack apparently involved lots of discussion but they both agreed it should be a Bloodhound pack as both joint Masters...

Is there a former racehorse that hunts regularly with your pack? If so, they could earn a £1,000 prize for your hunt and a £2,500 prize for their rider. Following the success of the inaugural 2017 Racing to Hunting Challenge, British racing’s own charity, Retraining of Racehorses (ROR), together with The Hunting Office, is launching...