A FARM-TASTIC line-up of all things country made this year’s Moreton Show a resounding success.
The weather stayed fine as thousands of visitors flocked to the showground on Saturday to watch and take part in agricultural attractions including show jumping, arena eventing, Pony Club relays, a Shetland pony Grand National, side-saddle demo and a heavy horse parade.
Entertainment for every age group ranged from a dog show to find the best looking and most obedient pooches through to terrier racing, sheep shearing to a children’s trail and vintage tractors.
Heavy horses including the Hook Norton Brewery dray paraded in the grand ring at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark Williamson
Super-skilled farriers competed to win the best shod horse contest and there was also a grand parade of all the cattle, sheep and goats.
A dizzying display of flowers, vegetables, wines and home baking could be found in the home and garden marquee and visitors shopped at the many trade stands selling everything from food and hand-crafted gifts to country clothing and farming machinery.
Esther Watts, general secretary said organisers have been inundated with positive feedback about the show and declared it “a resounding success”.
Members of the Working Clumber Spaniels Society including Sarah Watters-Carver, honorary secretary, Colin Thompson and Gary Barstow, field trials secretary, gathered from around the country with their dogs at the Moreton Show last Saturday. The Clumber spaniel is and endangered breed with only about 250 puppies born every year. Photo: Mark Williamson
She added: “Many people approached me on show day to tell me how much they had enjoyed their day, particularly the sheep shearing competition and the variety of trade stands.
“Children really enjoyed meeting the animals in the Attwell Farm Park mini-farm, as well as the vintage tractor parade and the magical musical bike.
There was a chance to win a share in a race horse from the Moreton based Old Gold Racing racing syndicate represented by its chief operating officer James Day and marketing manager Georgina Matthews. Photo: Mark Williamson
“We were kindly allocated over 30 Horse of the Year qualifiers this year, which meant the horse area was busy all day, and we saw an extremely high standard of competition.
“We hope to see you all again next year.”
Show chairman Stuart Mace said: “The show was a fantastic spectacle.” Vice-chairman Steve Parkes added: “The atmosphere at the show was amazing this year.”
Winnie Beeson, aged four, and her brother Montegue, six, took a look through a tractor tyre on the Land Tyre Service stand at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonHereford’s being being paraded at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonHelen Grover from Ebrington showed her 1976 Massey Ferguson tractor at the Moreton Show, it being her ambition to always own one of the classic red tractors as her father Michael Cooney worked on the Coventry based company’s production line for 25 years. Photo: Mark WilliamsonThere was keen competition in the sheep shearing competition at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonThere were displays of circus based fitness routines from the from Julie Santos, Emma Hutchings, Vanessa Harrison, Niamh Sutton and Chloe Edmunds from the Moreton based company Pole Tricks and Aerial at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonJames Brain and his partner Libby Spencer from Lordswood Farm at Pathlow near Stratford showed their British White’s at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonGourmet rolls from the Yorkshire based Crusty Pie Company were sold by Amy Shoesmith at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonEarly morning prize giving in one of the equine classes at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonThe 1st Moreton Scout Group took on the pioneering task of building a tower at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonThe Royal Agricultural Benevolent Instituation (RABI) Robert Jackson, chairman of the Gloucestershire RABI fund raising committee, raised money for the good cause at the Stratford based NFU Mutual’s stand at the Morton Show. Photo: Mark WilliamsonHeavy horses paraded in the grand ring at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonLivestock rosettes at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonThe 1st Moreton Scout Group took on the pioneering task of building a tower at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonDespite the dull conditions on Saturday moring thousands flocked to the annual Moreton Show. Photo: Mark WilliamsonJasper Read, aged six, Sam Wright, seven, Ned Wright, seven, and Josie Read, nine, enjoying their day at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonThe team from the Stratford based solicitors Lodders looked pretty in pink outside their stand at the Morton Show on Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonOwners look to the judge as their sheep are shown at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonA young rider competing at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonTaking time out before showing their livestok at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonHereford class prize giving at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonHeavy horses including the Hook Norton Brewery dray paraded in the grand ring at the Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark WilliamsonThere were ballons for the children from this exhibitor at Moreton Show last Saturday. Photo: Mark Williamson
