This scene depicts a huntsman changing horses during a hunt on the North Wessex Downs, near to Ilsley, now East Ilsley, West Berkshire - as seen by the signpost on the left. His mount, its energy spent is perfectly captured by Seago, slick with sweat and steam rising from its body, its warm breath coming from its muzzle. On the right a groom tightens the girth of a fresh hunter ready for the off.

In the distance, a steam train is running along the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&SR) - this was a single-track rail line that connected Didcot, Newbury, and Winchester and was the last major mainline railway to be built in the United Kingdom.

It is likely that Seago has drawn much inspiration from his mentor Sir Alfred Munnings - not only in the use of thick, impasto paint, as well as the slightly swirling brush marks used for the tree on the far right, but also the subject of the image is very similar to that of Munning's work from 1920, Changing horses, which depicts his wife standing between two horses, during a hunt.