There has been two hunter chases in the last two days, the one at Ludlow was won by Paul Nichols and the one at Newbury won by Jonjo O'Neil. Two professional trainers with hundreds of horses between them who's horses have never even seen a fox, let alone hunted, and who's owners probably get little or no pleasure out of winning such a paltry little race, when to a small point to point yard it gives huge pleasure and excitement and is the highlight of their season. These hunter chases are just being used by professional trainers to add to their winning tally. Pot hunting. It seems wrong that the point to point trainer can't run their horses in professional races but not the other way around. The hunter chase that was meant to be especially for the pointers who have hunted has now been hijacked by the professionals. The only way to reduce this from happening in my opinion is to ensure that each horse that runs in a hunter chase has a current hunters certificate, and then at least the hunts get something back and it wouldn't be so easy for the professional trainer to enter a horse in those races.