Team Skull/ Val Skull Equine/Aller Stud (Devon)

There seems to be very little online about Val Skull Equine and it would probably be a business of vanishingly little interest to most visitors to this site, but we do know that Val Skull’s son James Skull rides with the notoriously violent Eggesford Hunt, is severely unskilled in many aspects of horse welfare, and we know the business feeds into hunts. Skull junior posted a reel on Facebook on 04 Feb 2025 which showed him riding through a Westward Ho amusement arcade on a horse (having ridden in the dark to get there apparently) – a similarly ‘unamusing’ stunt took place when he was reported by Plymouth & West Devon Hunt Sabs “clearly agitated by the presence of a second saboteur group” charging on horseback “behind our vehicle, overtaking at high speed on the wrong side of the road. In a shocking display of disregard, he forced his poor horse into the path of our Land Rover. While we are no strangers to witnessing hunts mistreat their animals, this incident was particularly cruel and deeply distressing.” He must have learned that sort of reckless and stupid behaviour from someone, we wonder who…