THE goose writhes in agony as the eagle’s talons lock on and there is a terrible, balletic beauty as it plunges to the ground in its death spiral. Why is it all right to marvel at one animal killing another from the comfort of a sofa, when watching Sir David Attenborough’s Wild Isles, but no longer OK to observe from the back of a horse? Somewhere, society has got its values wrong and is diminished for it.
Horses and hounds being