Fire at Pachesham EC — no horses or people hurt
Fire ripped through the yard and hay barn at Pachesham Equestrian Centre last night, but no horses or people were hurt.
Seventeen stables, two mobile homes and a car were lost in the blaze, but the centre proposes to go ahead with a British Dressage competition being held there tomorrow (16 October).
According to early reports, the centre in Randalls Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, has lost its entire hay supplies.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.