9 hunting pictures that make us yearn for the return of the festive season already

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Arbella spence and the pony is Drummer
(Image credit: Libby Halliday)

Forget the presents and turkey. It's maximising our time in the hunting field that we're missing most about the Christmas break. We round up some of the best shots from the festive season. Don't miss this week's issue of Horse & Hound magazine (5 January 2017) with 18 pages of seasonal reports and photos

Madeleine Silver
Former features editor

A graduate from Durham University, Madeleine joined H&H in 2011 and became Features Editor — producing content across the magazine and website, including the popular inside back cover article ‘The horse that made me’ and the weekly ‘The best of my fun…’ interview. She has written on topics as diverse as hay making and headcams, to hot totty in the horse world and circus horses. Madeleine now works as a freelance feature writer for Country Life, The Telegraph, Horse & Hound, cntraveller.com, The Spectator and The Field, as well as writing obituaries for The Times.