We are back in the Cottesmore Tuesday country for the Melton Hunt Club Foxhunters Ride 2025, kindly sponsored by Ryder Premier Equestrian.
As with the main Melton Hunt Club Ride 2025, (sponsored kindly by Fox Grant Estate Agents) course walk parking should be at the radio mast near Glebe Farm on the Cold Overton which connects Oakham with Knossington.
On the day of the race all vehicles will be parked near the finish by kind permission of the Jarrom family. The drive to their farm is on the Braunston Road at ///running.joys.student.
The Foxhunters course starts on the South side of The Playground: W3W ///windpipe.reissued.tomb and proceeds West across the first three fences.
Proceed across the next field to the top corner where there is a bridleway crossing, with a short stride between the hedges.
Immediately after Fence 2 the course crosses a hedge line and heads towards the first marker.
As soon as you land after Fence 3 you can see the first marker at Fence 4.
After Fence 4 the course turns right over Fence 5, next to a tree.
Then the course turns right again where the next obstacles is a hedge line with a blue right-hand marker.
After this the course goes slightly left-handed to the bottom of the next field.
Then we turn right to Fence 8 which is a little further South than the map suggests.
This brings you into a large field with a copse of trees in the middle. In the bottom corner you will find Fence 9, another lane crossing.
Immediately after landing over Fence 9a there is a sharp turning right up the lane, before you can see Fence 9b on the left.
Once over 9b, turn right, uphill, to Fence 10.
Continue uphill across the line between Fences 1 and 2 to the top corner of that field.
Then a long gallop uphill to Fence 14.
Continue uphill until you see the marker at Fence 15.
Then another gallop across the next field to Fence 16, downhill.
Then turn sharply left to go back uphill over Fence 17.
Then gallop with Orton Park Wood to your right towards the next hedge line and Fence 18.
Then turn right to Fence 19, seen here from the landing side.
Then the course completes with the same last two fences as the main ride.
This brings you back to the parking and refreshments area where the prize giving will take place.