While it’s good to see healthy numbers at some of our most popular shows, organisers need to give competitors room to move and a reasonably level ring in which to perform. This was a real problem for competitors in the riding horse, re-trained racehorse and ridden Arabian classes at Royal Norfolk (24-26 June, not pictured above).
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