Melton Hunt Club Rides 2024 – Preview

The courses may be walked from Saturday 2nd November.

Barrowcliffe Farm Cross Country – Lorry Parking – ///dissolves.blatantly.spiking

The Melton Hunt Club and Quorn Foxhunter cross country rides will take place on Sunday 10th November with the rider starting at 12pm. The Foxhunter will follow the main ride.

PLEASE NOTE – there has been a small change which adds two more efforts to the end of the MHCR. The ride will no longer go through the gateway out of the woods and will instead take the same line as the Foxhunter, round the red marker. The preview has changed accordingly.

Melton Hunt Club Ride (Kindly sponsored by The Fox & Hounds, Knossington)

The Melton Hunt Club Ride starts in a field approximately half a mile East of the lorry park, just South of the South Croxton Road. The first fence is downhill in a southwards direction.

Then continue downhill to Fence 2

Then turn left to Fence 3 and Marker 1.

Continue Eastwards.

After Fence 5 the course turns back uphill around Marker 2.

Then turn left downhill to next hedge.

Then continue straight across the field to the next fence line.

Then proceed across the field and turn left to go uphill:

Then turn right to where the ditch has been filled on landing.

The Quorn Foxhunter (kindly sponsored by James Mossman)

The Quorn Foxhunter (sponsored by James Mossman) starts from a field East of Barrowcliffe Farm in a southerly direction.

After Fence 1 the course heads uphill in a southwesterly direction around the edge of the woods and back to Fence 13 from the Ride.

Now there is a choice.

Route 1 is to take the same route as the Ride over the hedge to the right where the ditch has been filled in.

Then turn left, downhill, to jump the next hedge:

Alternative Route 2 is longer but more straightforward. Continue downhill to this fence from the Ride, and jump it backwards:

Then turn right.

Whichever route you take the next fence is this one:

Before turning right, uphill to this hunt jump:

After that the next hedgeline has a couple of options.

Note the water trough which gets in the way if you jump where the post and rail is most viisble.

Continue downhill and cross this fence which is also in the Ride:

Then left to this gateway which will be open for the Foxhunter.

From here continue parallel to the hedgeline.

Note from the marker here that the Foxhunter allows you closer to the tree where there is a hunt jump.

Then hard left before crossing the same hedge further down to the right of the Blue Marker.

Now a right turn and a long gallop across an undulating field to this corner fence.

After which the Foxhunter course turns left:

This is now the landing side.

The rest of the course is the same as for the ride.

Then turn left uphill to this last hedge: