The following day, the Eggesford Hunt returned to North Tawton again, this time meeting a little later. They set off from Ashridge, heading west along the valley north of Ashridge Court, where hounds were heard briefly speaking. The pack became split, with some of the newer intake of hounds getting lost around Westworthy while the rest carried on through Rook Wood and into Western Copse, south of Bondleigh. With little intervention from huntsman Jason Marles, the pack split once more.
Some hounds ran south in direction of the Devonshire Heartland Way and ended up on a line in fields east of Yeo. Foot sabs rated them off and called those hounds up out of the valley. When Jason eventually managed to gather his pack, he took them back through Ashridge and on past Staddon Moor Cross into fields around Staddon Farm. Then back into Ashridge and west yet again towards Western Copse, where hounds chased a terrified deer across the road and were stopped in their tracks by sabs.
The final draw of the day was to the north via Lowton and Hill Barton and back into the valley south of Westworthy, before the hunt packed up just as it got dark.
The hunt seemed very limited in the ground they could cover, going back and forth over the same area all day. Sabs bumped into two disgruntled landowners who complained that they hadn’t been informed the hunt would be back for a second day. One of them said he was off to get his shotgun and would shoot the hounds if they came back into his fields, as he had just put his sheep back out. Even pro-hunt landowners don’t take kindly to hunt trespass and are fully aware of the risks posed by a pack of hounds rampaging across their fields of sheep.