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A hunt saboteur claims he was whipped 17 times with a riding crop by a woman on a horse while she was monitoring a hunt event.

Footage shows the rider shouting ‘get off my horse’ as she lashed out at the masked man as she continues to shout ‘get back to the road’.

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It was filmed during a ride by the East Sussex and Romney Marsh Hunt Club on Saturday in Pevensey, East Sussex.

The saboteurs claim she then used her horse to push them back while another masked man rushes in front of the horse, taking hold of the bridle.




A second clip appears to show the same woman charging her horse at the saboteurs from behind.

A hunt saboteur was ‘whipped’ by a woman on horseback (Picture: Brighton Hunt Sabs)

The ugly confrontation happened in a marshland near Pevensey, East Sussex on Saturday (Picture: Brighton Hunt Saboteurs)

Brighton Hunt Saboteurs said it attended the meeting to make sure no illegal hunting took place.

The group insists it was the victim of an unprovoked attack and claim the huntswoman simply ‘lost the plot’.

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Sussex Police and the East Sussex & Romney Marsh Hunt Club has been asked to comment.

It comes after a hunt saboteur had to go to hospital with a cut to the face in Warwickshire last week.

A spokesman for Sussex Police said: ‘A third party report of an assault has been made after a man was allegedly struck with a riding crop by a horse rider in Herstmonceux on Saturday (November 18).

Brighton Hunt Saboteurs said it attended the meeting to make sure no illegal hunting took place (Picture: Brighton Hunt Saboteurs)

‘The incident happened in a field off Church Road around 12.30pm. The victim was reported to have received a bruise and bump to the head, but did not require medical treatment. ‘The informant was not a witness to the incident, but police have now identified the alleged victim and an investigation is under way.

‘Police are aware of a video reportedly showing the incident being available on social media.’

A hunt spokeswoman said: ‘The East Sussex and Romney Marsh Hunt does not condone any form of violence even when faced with extreme provocation, personal harassment and other offences. ‘The hunt acts lawfully within the confines of the Hunting Act 2004 and takes every measure to ensure the law is adhered to.’

A Countryside Alliance spokesman said: ‘As we have always known, the reality is that the anti-hunting movement is far more about the hatred of people who hunt than the love of animals. ‘Hunts comply with the Hunting Act 2004 by trail-hunting and using other legal forms of exempt hunting however they are still plagued by balaclava-clad animal-rights activists who intimidate and harass hunt supporters and landowners. ‘Throughout the hunting debate, those opposed to hunting from Ministerial level down, asserted that it was wholly an animal welfare measure and that they wanted hunts to continue hunting an artificial scent once the ban was in place yet it becomes more and more obvious that the primary aim of the anti-hunting movement is to get rid of people who hunt, rather than to improve animal welfare.’

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