Hundreds out to watch hunt
Middleton Hunt in Malton. the hunt leaves the Marketplace...115203g, Picture Richard Ponter.
SEVERAL hundred people turned out in Malton Market Place on Boxing Day morning to support the annual Middleton Hunt meet.
After two years of bad weather – the meeting was cancelled in 2009 and hampered by icy conditions last year – they were greeted by balmy conditions as the hunt assembled before the 37 huntsmen and women rode of with the hounds.
The hunt called at the Old Lodge Hotel, a residential home, the Royal Oak and Wentworth Arms pubs in Old Malton before heading of to land around Eden Camp.
Hunt secretary Brian Tarver said: ‘’It was a very pleasing day.
‘‘The weather was good, it was very well attended in the Market Place and there was a good round of applause. It was nice to have good weather for the first time in three years.’’
On a day when the Agriculture Minster Jim Paice said the Hunting Act, which bans hunting with dogs, ‘‘simply doesn’t work’’, good crowds turned out for hunts across the region, including the Derwent Hunt which gathered at Brompton.
He added that the coalition agreed there would be a vote on whether to repeal the act when there was “time in the parliamentary calendar”.
Opponents say there is no desire among the general public to bring hunting back.
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