Dorset Show's packed programme (From Smallholder)

Dorset Show's packed programme

10:00am Friday 4th September 2009

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A packed programme of displays and events has been announced in the run up to Devon County Show tomorrow. There will be judging of the ridden hunters classes from 8am in the main ring, with the results of the national vegetable championships announced from 10am in the horticultural tent, where Joe Swift of BBC Gardener’s World is due to be filming. Also at 10am, in the countryside area, Adams Axemen will perform their world famous lumberjacks display and return at 2pm.

This will be followed by the Dog and Duck display at 11am, with Richard Savory showing his unusual sheepdog duck herding – a second showing is at 3pm.

In the main ring at this time where will be a parade of vintage tractors, loving restored, while between 11am and 3pm in the local food tent Matt Follas gives a Love Your Veg cooking display.

At 11.45am there will be judging of retrained racehorses in the main ring.

Around the showground between noon and 4pm all singing and dancing Titan the Robot will entertain the crowds.

In the countryside area at noon there will be a hound parade with working packs from Dorset and beyond, while in the main ring at 12.45am Jonathan Marshall will give an interactive falconry display, with a second showing at 5pm. Record breaking gymnasts The Kangaroos will perform breathtaking tumbling routines at 1pm in the countryside area (and again at 4pm) and half an hour later, in the main ring, Monster Trucks will be crushing everything in their path with a high octane show – returning at 4.30pm.

At 2pm pairs of ponies will race against the clock in the main ring, following by the grand parade of champion livestock from the morning competitions at 3pm.

At 3.30pm the show chairman and president will award those who have given 40 years of service to agriculture and allied trades, before eight packs of hounds from all over the UK will enter at 3.40pm. Children will be invited into the ring to “hug a hound.”

Vintage cars will enter the ring at 4pm, before the final display of the day at 5.30pm – a fast, furious and hotly contested competition where teams of riders race each other over a course of jumps.

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