Landscape & Urban Design Issue 50 2021 | Page 120

TOOLS , PLANT & EQUIPMENT

KUBOTA HORSEPOWER

IS A WINNER

AT HIGH PROFILE EQUESTRIAN EVENTS

Kubota is providing the horsepower at a series of high profile equestrian events this year and is already proving to be a winner for the site team .
Bolesworth Events organises a series of top level showjumping competitions in the beautiful surroundings of Bolesworth Castle , Cheshire in the summer , with the highlight being the Dodson & Horrell Bolesworth International Horse Show on 7-11 July , a five day festival which combines thrilling competitive action with entertainment , fabulous shopping and feasting on fine food and drink .
The action then moves indoors for the Liverpool International Horse Show over the New Year , a glittering , festive send off to the equestrian year .
Kubota dealer Hughes Bros of Oswestry , Shropshire , is a sponsor of these innovative equestrian events , providing tractors and utility vehicles to the Bolesworth site team .
The fleet of machines ranges from the nippy RTV500 and powerful RTV-X1110 utility vehicles , to the compact 37hp ST371 tractor and its workhorse bigger brothers , the 50hp L1501 and 72hp M4072 .
Bolesworth Events Site Manager Will Hutchinson-Smith and his team have already had chance to try the machinery out , at a four-day national showjumping competition in May .
“ My team looks after the entire site from the arenas to the infrastructure and car parks ,” he explains , “ so it ’ s been great to have the Kubotas and we ’ ve really put them through their paces .”
As well as harrowing and grading the vast 102x62m all-weather arena which has its own moat , the smaller tractors are used for moving showjumps .

Day after day , it turns in an exceptional performance .