Equestrian greetings cards that ‘speak’

Many a hunting enthusiast has a photo by H&H contributor Charles Sainsbury-Plaice on their mantelpiece.

But now the countryside photographer’s images don’t just look pretty — they speak as well.

Open his foxhound “sound card” and you’ll hear a hunting horn blowing the “gone away”. The Dartmoor pony whinnies and snorts, while, for the man in your life, the double guns card makes a realistic shooting noise. There’s even a tractor and a pig.

Charles reports that friends’ children have been delighted with the cards, though the same can’t be said for the parents — or the people who stock them.

“I was talking to the people who sell them and they said, ‘Those bloody hunting horns are driving me mad!’” he admitted.

Sound cards cost £5.25. Visit www.cspphoto.co.uk

This news story was first published in Horse & Hound magazine (20 June 2013)

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