“An almost flat very sharp triangular Linley course; slightly uphill from 3rd (10/17)th to 4(11/18)th; very gently downhill from next; fences portable and all renewed in 2013. Watering is available when required.” That brief description isn’t as telling as the single sentence on the Cothelstone P2P Course Facebook page: “Home of the Quantock, Weston & Banwell Harriers & West Somerset Vale Point to Points.” Point to Points are built around keeping hunts in the public eye. According to the British Horseracing Society, Point-to-Point Steeple Chases are for horses owned and ridden by members of an affiliated Hunt. A fixture can either be arranged by a Hunt or group of Hunts. Hunting’s ‘friendly face’ they often feature a dog show and are recruiting vehicles for hunts. They are often heavily sponsored by hunt-supporting businesses. Cothelstone features fundraising point-to-points for the violent Quantock Staghounds, the merged Weston & Banwell Harriers and West Somerset Vale, and the Taunton Vale Hunts. The hunting links don’t end there: the previously-listed Carew Arms (a strong supporter of the Quantock Staghounds) hosted a ‘Cothelstone Point to Point After Party’ in March 2025.
Cothelstone Point to Point Course (Somerset)
Links to further information
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore & Sparkford Vale point-to-point and the sponsors risking their reputations (March 2025)
- Protect the Wild: The Secret Monitor: Quantock Staghounds followers wrecking SSSI with 4x4s (March 2025)
- Protect the Wild: The Secret Monitor: the depraved ‘supporters’ of the Quantock Stag Hounds (October 2023)
- Protect the Wild: Hunt saboteurs hospitalised by violent Quantock Stag Hounds riders (Nov 2023)
- Protect the Wild: Stag killers no longer welcome in this Somerset pub (Oct 2023)
- Protect the Wild: The Secret Monitor: Dishing the dirt on stag hunting (September 2023)
- Protect the Wild: The brutal reality of stag hunting (April 2022)
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