This month TMV focuses on: YoungPeople out Hunting
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Adele Rand, (above). Her mum Geraldine says: She's just 11, she says she loves to hunt “'cos it's so much fun! You get to ride an' jump with all your friends, an' it's a nice day out! An' you can have cakes after with your friends!” On her birthday she was up at 5am to go hunting, then a hunt breakfast – before opening her presents."
New TMV columnist Alice Fox-Pitt, former eventer and lady jockey and now a Channel Four TV Racing presenter, says: “Hunting delivers a sense of discipline; a sense of calculated risk; it provides a challenge; it provides an amazing sense of respect for both humans and animals; a sense of endurance; and it provides great friendship.” MORE
New TMV columnist Kitty Gibson, a sixth form student, says: “I am so happy to say I have been hunting, before and after the ban. It is a thing I will never forget and will continue to do forever. I have become a part of something of which I am proud.” MORE
New TMV columnist David Seymour, former Political Editor of the Mirror Group, says: “Young people who have come into hunting are the lifeblood which will ensure its continuation for many decades. For a young person, the thrill of actually being mounted and about to set off behind the hounds can have no equal.” MORE
New TMV beagling columnist Wendy Marshall says: “Hunting still provides an etiquette for the young to follow. I can’t think of a young person who goes hunting that meets the stereotypical image that the young are given by the media today.” MORE
New TMV colunmist Denise Colebrooke who is secretary for the newly formed Irish Working Hunter Association: “...but this is Ireland where hunting for young people is almost as natural as walking, and at any meet you will find as many excited children on foot, as on horseback.” MORE
New TMV eventer columnist Gaby Cooke says: "I loved my hunting as a child. I remember one morning we were going autumn hunting and I got up at 2am, got dressed and was ready go hunting - not knowing what the time was, but was making certain I was not going to be late!” MORE
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