Court date for Clarissa Dickson Wright and Sir Mark Prescott
TV cook Clarissa Dickson Wright and racehorse trainer Sir Mark Prescott will appear at Scarborough Magistrates Court in August to face charges of hunting with dogs and attending a hare coursing event.
Miss Dickson Wright and Sir Mark, along with five other people, are being privately prosecuted by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) following two allegedly illegal hare coursing events in North Yorkshire in March 2008.
They deny the charges against them.
The other five defendants — including racehorse trainer Peter Easterby (79), who also denies the charges against him — are to be tried on 27 July.
Stay in touch with all the news in the run-up to and throughout the major shows and events during 2026 and beyond with a Horse & Hound subscription. Subscribe today for all you need to know ahead of these major events, plus online reports on the action as it happens from our expert team of reporters and in-depth analysis in our special commemorative magazines. Have a subscription already? Set up your unlimited website access now
Never miss out on the latest happenings in the equestrian world
A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.