Well worth a visit

Capt Ian Farquhar hunted the Duke of Beaufort’s hounds from 1985 to 2011. He retired from the mastership at the end of last season.

RINGING the changes, it was fascinating last week to go to East Anglia for the first time. I will confess I have never hunted in Essex or Suffolk before; somehow it seems not to be on the way to anywhere else. But recently I had been told firmly by friends that the Essex and Suffolk is a well-organised and efficiently run hunt that has some wilder country than