‘A consummate professional’
IT came as a surprise, I confess, when I was asked to interview the College Valley North Northumberland’s kennel-huntsman Andrew Proe, who is retiring at the end of this season after a staggering 40 years in hunt service. These include an almost unparalleled 34 years with the College Valley.
I have judged the hounds on occasion and had long heard that Andrew has always been top of his game, but he was in the north and I in the south. Of course I said yes; senior master Martin Letts and Ian McKie, who followed Martin as master and huntsman of the pack, are both old friends and if they say a man has been
