On Saturday morning, two very different groups began a now weekly ritual. Until September, one group – enveloped in scarlet or black riding coats and accompanied by yapping hounds – will hunt foxes. The other, decked out in all black and with intense eyes framed by balaclavas, will do everything in their power to stop them.
While the opening of Australia’s duck hunting season makes headlines each year, the state of Victoria has about a dozen clubs with a near-invisible profile who set out at least once a week in the winter months to hunt foxes on horseback, guided by hounds carefully bred and trained to sniff them out.
