Hon. Secretary Miss Phillippa White M: 07973 877370

The Grafton Hunt

End of Season Party - Saturday 13 March at The New Inn, Abthorpe. Hot food for £10.

Mr Michael Wills - Pharanto (Stuart Morris)

Cottesmore Point to Point - 7th March 2010

The Huntsman’s Race for Repeal

As part of the Countryside Race Day at Ascot Racecourse on Sunday 18th April, ten huntsmen from the South of England are already hard in training for the Countryside Alliance “Race for Repeal”.

It seems our very own Mick Wills is in training together with Julian Barnfield (Heythrop), David Trotman (Vine & Craven), Steve Burton (Hursley Hambledon), Mark Bycroft (Old Surrey, Burstow & West Kent), Philip Hague (VWH), Michael Scott (Old Berks), Tony Holdsworth (The Duke of Beaufort's), Tony Wright (Exmoor), Donald Summersgill (Devon and Somerset Staghounds) and Richard Down (Quantock Staghounds).

If you would like to book a table for lunch - they are running out fast! - please contact Jo Wiggan. Lunch and premiere enclosure tickets cost £50 per person. If you are planning on bringing hunt supporters you can buy discounted tickets direct from Ascot by quoting GRASSROUTES tel 0870 7271234. There will be a Countryside Alliance members area serving tea and a bar in the same Pavilion as the lunch, please bring your membership cards.

Please also support Mick in his bid to be Champion Jockey and encourage everyone to sponsor him, there is a magnum of champagne for the Huntsman with the most sponsorship

Further details can be found on http://www.countryside-alliance.org.uk/blogcategory/countryside-race-day/

Tickets and details here

Sponsor Mick here