Field hunter

The horse should have a safe jump, so as not to get caught on any of the solid obstacles found in the hunt field.

Field hunter trials are regularly held to test these horses, and have become a popular form of equestrian competition.

Often the horses are judged over several days of fox hunting, with the best of the group performing in the "handy hunter" class.

The British working hunter is not required to jump obstacles exactly like those met in the hunting field, although a water tray is sometimes used to simulate a ditch, and natural dips in the ground, banks etc.

Horses and jockeys must have qualified with a pack of foxhounds, harriers, bloodhounds or draghounds by "riding to hounds".