It makes not a blind bit of difference whether riding to hounds is upper crust chinless wonders in fancy dress or country folk out for a day combining pest control with sport. What does matter is how it is perceived -Tory blue - by the majority of people who know naff-all about it except what they get from the boob-box and red-tops. And that, friends, is not good. The media only consider the Quorn and Pytchley end, not the little local hunts. As I said, Labour banned riding to hounds purely on class grounds. Whether those grounds really existed was irrelevant. Since they had to make it look g