Highly respected professional huntsman switches careers to work in racing

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John Holliday at the Belvoir Hunt kennels.
Belvoir Hunt kennels 21.12.17 John Holliday ( H/Man )
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BELVOIR huntsman John Holliday is retiring from hunt service and will become trainee clerk of the course at Hereford racecourse at the end of the season.

John, who hunted with the Cumberland Farmers as a child, became whipper-in at the Braes of Derwent in 1983. He whipped-in both to Robin Jackson at the Belvoir and Michael Farrin at the Quorn before going to the Ledbury as huntsman in 1995.

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Catherine Austen
Catherine Austen
Hunting editor

A St Andrews’ graduate, Catherine joined Horse & Hound in 2002 and stayed for 11 years in a variety of roles until she went freelance in June 2013. She rejoined the team part-time in November 2016 as hunting editor. She pretty much lives on the hunting field or at the racecourse, but also loves eventing, as a journalist, press officer and competitor. She was H&H’s sole accredited journalist at the London Olympic Games and has reported from major race meetings and eventing, showjumping and dressage championships and shows round the world, and has hunted all over Britain and Ireland.