Blackthorn and Brook

 

Known as the 'most fun you can have with your clothes on', there is nothing so thrilling as fox-hunting on a good horse with a keen pack of hounds. Megan Corp can ensure that you will remember your English fox-hunting experience forever

 

  • Quality horses chosen to suit your ability and taste

  • Exciting days with traditional hunts, including the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale, the Portman, the Mendip Farmers and the New Forest 

  • Megan will accompany you to ensure you are safe and happy at every moment

  • Every detail covered, from filling your hip flask with your favourite tipple to ensuring your boots are perfectly polished

  • All levels of experience can be catered for, from first-flight daredevils to hilltoppers keen to take in the view

  • Varied country and fences, from stone walls to hedges, moorland to vale

  • Fast, keen-nosed and biddable packs of hounds

  • As many days as you want in the saddle

  • A chance to dress up for a Hunt Ball, the centre of the social season

  • Black-tie dinners with hunt chairmen and members

  • Comfortable accommodation in traditional English pubs and hotels

  • Hearty hunting breakfasts and post-hunting feasts with plenty of liquid sustenance to toast the day

  • Professional photographs and film of your adventure

  • Transport in luxury 4x4 vehicles with driver

  • Non-hunting friends and families welcome

 

Away from the hunting field

  • Trips to notable destinations, such as the City of Bath with its roof-top spa and Roman Baths, Stourhead in Wiltshire with its glorious gardens and the prehistoric Cerne Abbas Giant, the largest chalk hill figure in Britain

  • Spa days to soak your aches away

  • Take to the road in a classic Aston Martin

  • Trail rides through beautiful English countryside

  • A day out at Badminton Horse Trials

  • Champagne picnics

  • Sit for an equestrian portrait

  • Hunt for truffles

  • Stock up on hunting attire, from vests to whips

 

Example of a week-long hunting holiday: 'An English Hunting Debut'. Designed
as an introduction to the foxhunting tradition, with three days' hunting, beginning quietly and building up to hedge-hopping. Caps, horse hire and accommodation included, international flights excluded ₤8,400 ($13,000) per person