This afternoon we received several tipoffs that the Silverton Hunt had been spotted in the Thorverton area. We can’t always act on last-minute intel but fortunately today we had a team who were able to mobilise at short notice. It’s always worth dropping us a message whenever you see the hunt!
The first signs of the hunt when we arrived in the area were a horse trailer parked on the edge of the village and a lone hound running along a road near Castle Wood. Paw and hoof prints gave away which direction the hunt had gone. Teams searching the area on foot, by road and by drone soon came across a few suspicious characters on quadbikes between Stone and Traymill Farm. The terrier boys immediately got on their walkie-talkies to inform huntsman Chris Matterface that sabs had arrived to spoil their fun. Moments later we heard his horn and voice calls down the road from us and hounds came streaming back up towards him out of the valley.
In what has become a bit of a theme with hunts we’ve sabbed in recent weeks, sabs showing up was all it took for them to pack up. Huntsman, hounds, terrier men and about a dozen riders then very slowly made their way back to Raddon Court to box up nice and early. En route we came across some locals who expressed their disgust at the hunt but also some imbecilic hunt supporters who thought it would be a great idea to deliberately block the road with a pony.
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