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Email: info@themastersvoice.co.uk Tel: 01768 860616
Agricultural Hall Skirsgill Penrith Cumbria CA11 0DN
Writer, Journalist & Photographer - MIDGE TODHUNTER
Midge Todhunter
Midge is a very experienced horseman and has ridden extensively in many areas of the world. As a travel writer for the Independent on Sunday and Daily Mail - he has ridden in the Canadian Rockies three times; the French Alps; the Camargue (with the famous white horses); and twice ridden horse safaris accross the wild plains of South Africa.
He is now a professional writer, journalist and photographer. He is a columnist and feature writer for Horse & Hound, and has had work published in 40 other publications. He is also a member of the Society of Authors.
Professionally associated with horses for more than 40 years, he began with ponies as a kid and worked his way up to become a national hunt jockey. He travelled widely within horseracing including six month spells as a work-jockey in Germany; and in the U.S.A. (Maryland, and Belmont Park, New York).
Midge has ridden training gallops on two Aintree Grand National winners: Rubstic, and Lucius, (both then stabled at Greystoke); was work-jockey for Star Appeal - the 1974 winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. He has ridden winners of hurdles races, team chases, and cross-country events. On the Point to Point scene he has trained horses to win Pt to Pt races for friends. Midge's brother, Martin Todhunter, was assistant trainer to the late legendary Gordon Richards and is now a successful National Hunt trainer in his own right at Orton Scar in Cumbria.
Midge moved to the challenges of hunting in the English countryside and was kennel-huntsman for Cumberland Farmers’ Foxhounds (6yrs) three-day-week pack, where he was tutored by a significant mentor, the late Bobby Hudson who hunted the Cumberland Foxhounds for 30 years. Bobby had been KH to the late D.W.E.Brock, the celebrated writer on hunting.
“Bobby was by far the best huntsman I ever met, and taught me in equal terms about hounds and horses: he said great huntsmen were experts with both. Bobby also had the finest approach to life and did it all with a smile: he was head and shoulders above the rest at running a hunt and a hunt country, and remains my greatest hero.”
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