Ploughing with pairs

Dressage

The British Festival of the Working Horse 2012

The British Horse Loggers are organising a major festival of working horses - the first event of its kind in Britain

The event will be held over the weekend of the 8th and 9th September 2012 in Windsor Great Park.

It will feature horses working in forestry, agriculture, horticulture, vines and orchards, the towns, tourism and leisure.

It will have competitions for horse logging, agriculture and horticulture, urban work, docility, speed and endurance.

It will celebrate the role that horses have played, do still play and will continue to play in our lives.

Horses will also be in major ring spectacles as well as in work and competition.

Teams of horses, handlers and supporters from all over Europe and Great Britain will take part.

There will be no showing in hand - all horses taking part will work, demonstrate, compete and perform.

The venue is superb. Meeting all our requirements and convenient for the channel, international airports and the motorway system, it could not be better.

Part demonstration, part competition and all celebration it is not to be missed.

Main ring spectacles

Horse logging

Chariot racing

Football

Quiet enjoyment

Living horse power is cheap and readily available. We can breed horses, without limit, without endangering the planet.We know a lot about them and how to use them. They can pull things for us, carry us, help support our society, feed it and enable it to function. They can do so far better than they did in the past if we take advantage of some of the technical advances made in agriculture and machinery design. They can be fed from our fields. They don't destroy the environment but enhance it. They create employment, not replace it. They are a source of companionship in the workplace, a source of pride and pleasure when seen to be working to perfection in harmony with man and his surrounding. Why on earth don't we use them?

Charlie Pinney. 2003.