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Hi everyone, Just wanted to say a big thank you to all those that helped
me on Sunday at Lower House Farm with "Loose Horse" syndrome.  When I fell off the first time  a very kind young man caught Red and held him while I got back on.  Felt a right old idiot when I fell off again!!!!!!!!! when Red performed a superb cat leap over a small patch of mud which caught me completely unawares.  This time the hounds went right and Red went left and took himself back to the lorry.  Thank you to Matt who picked me up in the car and drove me back to my horse.

Hi, my name is Matthew,

This Jordan Shynn reporting on the Junior’s point of view about the hunting.  Here is my report:

 Hello, I'm Jordan Shynn and my pony is called Billy. We go hunting most weeks with the EABH and thoroughly enjoy it.

It's great fun coming hunting because you can have some great gallops and jumps. But the best bit is getting muddy! (Although you have to clean your tack afterwards!) The hunt takes us to some wonderful venues and parkland. My pony Billy loves it. He keeps up with everyone and ploughs through all the muddiest bits!

Before you go out, usually the host will hand out some lovely prepared food and drink. Sometimes this will happen at one of the halts after the run, where they give you a sugar boost with chocolate and ginger cake. Once you've finished hunting and cleaned your pony, you can go and have some lovely soup and bread rolls. (They keep you well fed!)

Going out hunting isn't just great fun for us horse lovers. It's good fun for the family too. My mum and brother love to go `off-roading` in the car, following us about taking lots of pictures! You can also take a picnic with you too.

When we went to Euston Hall, on the last run, I got invited to go up front with the Field Master. Billy thought it was great being near the hounds, but I had to drop back a bit because he can get rather strong!

I would recommend hunting to anyone. I think that it's great fun and enjoyable for all the family. Come and give it a try, bringing your friends with you too. I will guarantee that you will love it!

               From Jordan and Billy Shynn

Euston Hall - Another View From the Field

Everyone must know how well we are looked after by the Duke & Duchess of Grafton and their family and friends as over 40 mounted and a lovely lot of foot followers enjoyed their hospitality.

The 'going' was perfect which was such a pleasant change after the last few meets in deep mud and heavy going, and not so much to clean off horse and rider back at the boxes!

The quarry did us proud as usual, and the lines were the longest of the season - a really enjoyable day ending with soup and rolls courtesy of Toni who had another 'first' day out with her young horse 'Bertie'.

It was good to have Pip out with 'Dougal' again this season, I think they may  need the week to recover after all the excitement of the day, but hopefully will be raring to go next Saturday.  Thanks to Matt for all the photos today ( Pip is usually out with her camera when not riding).  I feel a caption competition coming on for the Master in the Sentry Box!!  What great pictures.

More ponies out this week, it is really encouraging to have the youngsters out with us, all well mounted on sensible ponies.  Looking forward to reading their contributions and ideas for a Juniors Page on the website.  Do hope you all enjoyed your day, especially riding the last line with the Field Master.

Next Saturday the 'going' should be equally good for the meet at Stoke by Nayland - hope to see lots of you out, and on Sunday at High Easter when we share a Members Race with the Easton Harriers at their Point to Point.

Pip & Dougal Back Hunting Together At Last 

Dougal and I thoroughly enjoyed our day out hunting, it is one of the best days hunting we have had in twelve years, even though Dougal embarrassed himself by behaving like a mad-man at the meet throwing himself around and barging into everyone, generally behaving like a three year olds first day out hunting. Most will know I have only been able to ride a couple of times at the beginning of the season due to injury so we were both probably as unfit as each other but determined to get out at Euston anyway. The going was perfect for Dougal.

By the end of the day I knew I was going to suffer on Monday with sore muscles but was not prepared to feel like I had been trampled by a herd of ballerina elephants. Monday night crawled upstairs on hands and knees (Dougal was very tired but seemed fine). Tuesday morning decided to see if I could get a foot in the stirrup and get back in the saddle, pain, pain, lots of pain rode out for forty minutes at walk with very short 100m trot, could not manage any more and after all this suffering the day was still worth it. We will have to see if I will be able to ride on Saturday.

It was really good to have Lewis out with us after having a knee operation on Friday, he was on crutches but this did not hold him back. Matthew had a great day chauffeuring Lewis and Katherine round. No one could miss Lewis at all of the halts waving his crutches around and whipping in the hounds with them. Graham was nearly made redundant.

Thanks to Roger Lush who gave me great encouragement to be out on horse back again, he looked quite shocked and amused to find I had finished each run and got to the half way halts.