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The happiest of days

NORTH COTSWOLD

27 November

Edited by Catherine Austen

catherine.austen@futurenet.com

@cfausten123

North Cotswold, Broadway Tower, Worcs

“ON a clear day you can see for absolutely miles,” enthused almost everybody at the hunt breakfast ahead of the meet at the iconic Broadway Tower.

The day of my visit, however, was not a clear one. Visibility, which did improve after we left the meet, was extremely limited, so I had to enjoy our hosts’ generous hospitality without the views I was anticipating. That might have been a slight anticlimax but, thankfully, was most definitely not the case for the rest of the day, which did not disappoint.

Rain lashed down upon the 65-strong field that had come to support the North Cotswold's hunt horse day, which Richard Ashbrook, chairman of the Hunt Horse Club, had coordinated. It was a case of third time lucky for me as my two previously planned visits to this

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