Horse & Hound

Hunting's greatest challenge

catherine.austen@futurenet.com

@cfaustenl23

THE greatest challenge that the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) and the hunting community faces since the ban on foxhunting in 2004 is to refute the accusation that trail-hunting and exempt hunting using hounds are not legal sporting activities.

We have to show, and prove, that when chief superin tendent Matt Longman, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead on hunting, says hunts are using trail-hunting as a loophole to carry on hunting foxes and other animals, that he is mis taken and misled by those who seek to destroy our sport.

But we must accept we have a big problem - one of our own making. When

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