Hunter Paces

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Hunter Pace Details

What
Wentworth Hunt offers 3 hunter paces each year:

  • Click here to learn about our June Spring Pace.
  • Click here to learn about our August Conservation Pace.
  • Click here to learn about our October Fall Foliage Pace.

Why
Wentworth Hunt’s hunter paces are a great opportunity to ride our beautiful hunt territories with your own group at your own pace. All hunter pace locations provide riders with up to ten miles of beautiful wooded trails and fields with plenty of natural hunt-sy jumps off to the side of the main trail for those who wish to jump.

Who
Participants ride out in teams of up to six riders. Don’t have a team? Contact our wonderful Secretary at Secretary@WentworthHunt.org and he will help find a team for you.

How
Riders choose competitive competitive field (faster pace), hilltop (slower pace), or non-competitive divisions (any pace!).

When
Ride out times for all our paces is 8:00am to 12:00pm. Request a ride out time when you enter. Final ride out times will be emailed to registered participants and posted here on our website a few days before the pace.

Whew!
All pace courses include a five minute stop in the middle for Stirrup Cup with water (for humans) provided.

Questions?
Contact our secretary at: Secretary@WentworthHunt.org.
Our secretary has all the answers to your hunter pace questions!


Prizes and Series Awards

You read that right! Ribbons are awarded in the competitive field and hilltop divisions for the top 6 teams based on ride times that are closest to optimal hunt time. Top 3 teams get swag! We hope to be able to score the event and distribute prizes at the conclusion of the pace, but don’t worry if you have to get home to do whatever it is you do when not riding. We’ll get the prizes to you and your team!

We also have series end awards! Ride in the competitive division in all of our paces and be eligible for fabulous series end awards.


Paperwork and Safety

Release Forms
All participants need to complete our online release form before riding in a pace. Release forms for 2024 will be available here soon.

Negative Coggins
All horses need to bring proof of negative Coggins to the pace. Their owners can help them with this, as most horses are notoriously bad with paperwork.

Attire
Of course, all riders are required to wear certified helmets and hard-soled shoes with heels. Safety first, people!


Spring Hunter Pace

Our Spring Hunter Paces is traditionally held in June at Branch Hill Farm, Milton Mills, NH. The details of our Spring Pace will be available here soon.

Branch Hill Farm, one of our hunt territories, is a wonderful location that includes a mix of woods and fields with very good footing throughout. All jumps on course are inviting natural, hunt-type jumps with a maximum height of 3′, all gappable.
Click here to learn more about Branch Hill Farm.

2023 Spring Pace Riders
Spring Pace Volunteers Emma and Michael BEING AWESOME!!!


Conservation Hunter Pace

Our second hunter pace in our series is our Conservation Hunter Pace at wonderful Fine Nest Farm in Raymond, NH. This pace is always held in August before our Fall Informal Season begins. The date of this pace will be posted here on our website soon.

Why is this called our “Conservation Hunter Pace”? Hunt members Cody Cramer and Dana Zulager have developed a territory that has interconnected trails through wooded areas that cover conservancy land along the Pawtuckaway River, known locally as the Stingy River. One loop runs through land protected by the Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire, and we enjoy riding around several hay fields at the neighboring Sullos Farm. Over 150 acres of Fine Nest Farm is in conservation with the Bear-Paw Regional Greenways. This is a very special territory and a treat for all riders.
Click here to learn more about Fine Nest Farm.

2023 Conservation Pace Riders
2023 Conservation Pace Riders HAVING A GREAT TIME!!
(and winning our Best Dressed contest, which we don’t actually have but really should because these ladies look amazing!)


Fall Foliage Hunter Pace

The Fall Foliage Hunter Pace, our final hunter pace in our series, is held at Tuckaway Farm and Powder Major’s Farm in Lee, NH. The date is traditionally the Sunday of Columbus Day weekend when the foliage is always spectactular. The date of this pace will be posted here on our website soon.

This pace is always a rider favorite and this year was no different. The weather was extraordinary and the course was perfect! All participants had an incredible ride.

Click here to learn more about Tuckaway Farm and Powder Major’s Farm.
Tuckaway Farm and Powder Major’s Farm together create an incredibly beautiful territory offering a course alongside babbling brooks and working farms, through wooded trails, and across large open riding fields. This course offers wonderful views of fall foliage throughout. The footing is always great, the jumps are plentiful and of all heights (and gappable, of course), and the fall weather always provides horses and humans with the best riding conditions.


2023 Fall Foliage Riders and Super-Volunteer Ali Stapley


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