Rees-Mogg’s favourite gang of miscreants, the Mendip Farmers Hunt were invited down to Devon this last Saturday, to hang out with the equally miserable Stevenstone Hunt, at their meet at Great Gorwood Farm, Buckland Brewer.
Unfortunately for them both, we’d also invited some of the Mendip Famers’ local sabs along as well. Mendip Sabs and Somerset Sabs.
They started off hacking around the lanes to the north of the meet, with a quick pause to do some tiny jumps at Howley before drawing nearby fields surrounding Greenhill, down towards the valley west of Cabbacott.
Huntsman Thomas then hunted the area on foot, with sabs catching up to him attempting to put hounds into dense brambles at Cabbacott. Realising sabs were on his tail, he scurried off back to the road via swamp of slurry that was draining into a nearby stream.
From here everything moved onto Park Moor, not long after entering the moor the hounds got onto the line of a fox, said fox was later seen fleeing across a nearby road, (see video from Mendip Sabs) who covered the line and gave the animal precious moments to escape.
Not even escaping to Devon prevents the Mendip Farmers Hunt from being sabbed, the pressure finally getting to Hunt Master Sam Colburn, who unleashed one of his trademark hissy fits at Mendip Sabs before a local quad decided to intentionally reverse into one of their sabs.
Even with their desperate attempts to get the hounds back on the line, the fox was long gone and with the remaining hounds rated off the line at a nearby hedge, Thomas took them back onto Park Moor again for round two. Hounds briefly picked up a scent near Park Farm, but were quickly rated off by sabs.
The day ended with a futile attempt to hunt the fields at Great Gorwood. Surrounded by sabs with a drone looking down upon them, the two hunts soon gave up and headed back to the meet.
Eggesford’s Jason Marles made another appearance on the day, maybe he thought Stevenstone was worth another go now that it wouldn’t be boring old James hunting the hounds.
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