“The business has a diverse assortment of interests, including Property Development, Arable Farming, Concrete, Sheep Farming…At Hopkins Estates, we have ‘farming blood’ running through our veins with our Managing Director from a farming background dating back many generations.” Hunts rely on farmers to allow them to hunt on their land – and many farmers are pro-hunt (or at least anti-fox and – lately – anti-badger). Hunts also rely on fundraising point-to-points to keep them solvent. The March 2025 BSV point-to-point at Wincanton Racecourse attracted thousands of pounds in sponsorship money and will have essentially enabled this notoriously violent and criminal to continue hunting next ‘season’. Hopkins is literally down the road from the racecourse and presumably figured it wouldn’t hurt to get their name in front of the BSV and its support…as the saying goes though, lie down with dogs…
Hopkins Estates (Somerset)
Links to further information
- Protect the Wild: Police ‘investigating’ more illegal hunting by Dorset’s notorious BSV hunt (February 2025)
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt ends 2024 with four days of carnage (January 2025)
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hounds tear up fox in residential garden (November 2024)
- North Dorset Hunt Sabs: 𝐁𝐒𝐕 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭. 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐛 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 (Facebook, October 2024)
- Protect the Wild: Men from Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt charged with illegal hunting (June 2024)
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hunter guilty of ABH (April 2024)
- Horse and Hound Forum: Yet again the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt bringing hunting into disrepute (March 2019)
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