H&H’s fun quiz
Just how serious are you about your sport? Are your garter straps up to scratch and do you bone your boots? Take H&H’s tongue-in-cheek quiz to discover quite how knowledgeable you are about hunting
1 When someone says “Wallace”, do you immediately think: a) William, b) Gromit, or c) Capt Ronnie? 2 Is a thong: a) insubstantial underwear, b) footwear, like sandals, or c) part of your hunting whip? 3 If someone asked you what it meant to “couple up”, what would be your explanation? a) connecting your car to the trailer,
b) what happens on Tinder, or c) joining two hounds together with linked collars? 4 What is your stock? a) the multiple shares you hold in a blue-chip company, b) sheep or cows, or c) more properly, your hunting tie?
5 If you tell people you are going to the Melton, should they imagine: a) the home of pork pies,
b) English people in hot countries, or c) a hunt ride that alternates between the Quorn, Cottesmore or Belvoir countries?
6 When you think “hunt jump”, what springs to mind? a) post-and-rails, b) safer than a hedge, or c) your surefire bet at the hunt ball? 7 What do you understand by the word “cast”? a) your horse has lost a shoe, b) a 1990s Britpop band, or c) hounds searching for the scent of the trail?
8 Are your hunting boots: a) rubber (clammy) b) patent with curved tops (your hero is Carl Hester), or c) handmade leather with garter straps? 9 How do you pronounce “covert”? a) how it looks, with an audible “t”, b) co-vert, à la James Bond, the SAS, that sort of thing, or c) cover, of course? 10 Who or what is Robin?
a) a sweet bird with a red breast b) Batman’s mate, or
c) Smith-Ryland, that man with the eyebrows who hunts six days a week?
11 What is the stud book?
a) something produced by Weatherbys, b) how your cousin Daphne refers to her phone book, or c) the Foxhound
Kennel Studbook, bedtime reading for hound pedigree fanatics?
12 What is boning? a) filleting fish b) swotting up, or c) how you polish your hunting boots — with a piece of deer bone. Exhausting, but worth it?
13 Is Peterborough:
a) a cathedral city in the east of England? b) a muchmissed diary column in The
Telegraph? c) the Peterborough Royal Foxhound show, part of the Festival of Hunting and the highlight of your summer calendar? 14 What’s your opinion on draghunting? a) love it — lots of jumping, no boring waiting around, home in time for Come
Dine With Me, b) is it something to do with men wearing false eyelashes and fishnet tights?
c) not your cup of tea — you go hunting to watch hounds work… H&H