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The British Festival of the Working Horse 2012

The British Festival of the Working Horse will champion horse logging as a viable, vibrant and credible approach to high quality and sustainable woodland management and horse work in general. It will also invite active participation from other draught animal and horse powered enterprises and promote the concept of the 'energy animal', horses as 'renewables'; sustainable and renewable sources of green energy

Horses will be worked, modern and traditional equipment demonstrated.

Horses taking part will be able to attend by invitation only.

Modern and innovatory horse work equipment will be judged for the Charlie Pinney Memorial Award for Innovation in Horse Work Machinery.

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

Teams ploughing in France for a world record - 50 pairs ploughing 1 hectare in record time!

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.