Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

The end of an era: after 20 years we must move our horses off the farm

I’m sad to go but the shoot boys want us out and the old-fashioned rural values are no more on this estate

Sign of the times: our horses are having to give way to a shoot and a deer-stalking business [Helen Hotson/Alamy]

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