Tom Hodgson was Master of the Holderness Hunt, and is portrayed on his black horse Comical, out of Comus, which was given to him by his neighbour, William Constable-Maxwell, 10th Lord Herries of Everingham Park, Yorkshire. Alexander William Robert Bosville (1800-1847) is shown standing beside his horse Andante (the subject of another picture by Ferneley, in a private collection), which was bred by W. Frank Watt of Bishop Burton, for whom Ferneley had supplied three pictures in 1833. Alexander Bosville was the eldest son of Sir Godfrey Bosville MacDonald, 11th Baronet and 3rd Lord MacDonald, but assumed the surname of Bosville on inheriting the estates of Thorpe and Gunthwaite, Yorkshire, from his great uncle William Bosville. The huntsman on the left hand side of the picture is Will Danby, on Paddy, an Irish chestnut. The scene takes place in the Great Pasture at Thorpe, the road to Boynton seen in the distance. Lord MacDonald purchased two pictures from the artist in 1836, and others in 1838 and 1840.