ANTI-FIELD sports campaigners have long tried to whip up class prejudice with their talk of 'toffs on horses'.

However, Graham Forsyth's latest letter plumbs new depths, Hunters and the rich will inherit the Earth, Echo, September 25.

Graham's argument that hunting and shooting should be denied the Government funding available to other sports because of the ethnic and social mix of its participants is nonsense.

One of the key purposes of such funding should be to make sports more available to people of all colours and racial backgrounds.

Hunts and shoots are legal respectable activities and it is quite right that the Government takes steps to encourage a greater number and diversity of people to participate.

Giles Bradshaw

Rose Ash, South Molton