“Wincanton Racecourse is located in the heart of Somerset and prides itself on being part of the local community…Owned and operated by The Jockey Club, Wincanton has become a busy and vibrant racecourse that is a must-visit location when in the South West.” The racing ‘community’ and the hunts have always been close – racecourses host point-to-points and points-to-points are fundraisers for hunts – as has alcohol (which has blighted recent events at Cheltenham), betting, and the deaths of horses (tracked by Animal Aid’s comprehensive Race Horse Death Watch website). Activists from Action Against Foxhunting who attended the Blackmore & Sparkford Vales’s point-to-point fundraiser at Wincanton Racecourse in March 2025 reported excessive whipping and two horses falling (horses were made to jump three full circuits of the course).
Wincanton Racecourse (Somerset)
Links to further information
- Protect the Wild: Two members of notorious BSV Hunt plead guilty to obstructing sabs (March 2025)
- Protect the Wild: BSV hunt filmed trying to wrestle spade from roadworks crew (March 2025)
- 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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