This scene depicts a hunter changing horses on the Berkshire Downs, near to Ilsley (now East Ilsley) – as shown by the signpost on the left of the painting. Seago has portrayed the fatigue of the horse by painting heat rising from its back and warm breath coming from its mouth and nostrils, giving the work a strong sense of liveliness. In the distant background, we can see a steam train 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.