Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2010 | Page 70

life EQUESTRIAN - Sponsored by Brickfields and Froghill Tack February/March 2010 New Year’s Day at Gotten Leaze Support for the Isle of Wight Hunt is always overwhelming on January 1st, which this year marked the 10th anniversary of the meet Gotten Leaze, Calbourne. Originally the idea of former huntsman and master Richard Standing, who wanted to hunt his hounds on the final day of the last century and the first day of the new one, the Isle of Wight Hunt has met at Gotten Leaze on New Year’s Day ever since. Thanks to the generous hospitality of Mr & Mrs David Biles and their son Sam and his family, who now live at the farm, a wide cross-section of the community both mounted and on foot was able to enjoy what is fast becoming an Isle of Wight tradition. Newcomer Newcomer Newcomer 70 Visit our new website - www.visitislandlife.com