The parade of the hounds. Even though I am strongly opposed to hunting and couldn't help muttering under my breath when the countryside alliance preached that its going to fight to lift the ban, it was a nice sight to see dogs and horses stretched at full out gallop in the ring.



The shetland pony grand national - too cute for words!



The champion shire was a beautiful, powerful animal.



This is one of the champion Welsh stallions, this one is a section C I think.



Another highlight was the miniature shetland class, these guys were absolutely miniscule. I think Victoria's German Shepherd, Max, would dwarf them all.



One of the greatest shows had to be the Interhunt Relay. Teams of 4 from from hunts around Wales have to be pitted against another team and get around a symmetrical course of obstacles, passing the baton to the next team mate, and the first to finish wins. There are no penalties for a fence knocked down, but three refusals and the next rider had to take over the rest of your course then do their own, too. It was great to watch, and was a real haphazard spectacular!



A skewbald safely over the picnic table



The 'bridge' had to be walked through first...

(still more, bored yet?)