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26 THE GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW
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A ROYAL VISIT
ROUNDS OFF A
FANTASTIC SHOW
HRH the Duke of York visited the final day of the
Great Yorkshire Show, seeing everything from
fashion to the latest in farming innovations.
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SHOW organisers were celebrating
terrific viewing figures for the first episode
of Today at the Great Yorkshire Show,
when 1.6 million people across the UK
tuned in at peak time.
There was also a thrilling end with
the prestigious Cock O’ The North show
jumping competition ending in a win for
jubilant Wetherby rider Richard Howley.
A class field saw 11 through to the second
round with nine going clear to reach the
timed jump off. The packed grandstand
roared Richard home clear on Sarah
Borthwick’s Chinook in 49.22, beating
James Wilson Imagine de Muze on 53.31
and the legendary John Whitaker taking
third on 53.40 with Unick du Francport.
The competition came after the tradi-
tional President’s Handover which saw
Tom Ramsden hand to Charlotte Bromet
the new President of the Yorkshire
Agricultural Society for the coming year.
Prince Andrew was presented with a
gift by five-year-old Hannah Fox, who
attends a primary school near Thirsk. He
Tom Ramsden outgoing president hands
over to the new President Charlotte Bromet
saw part of the hugely popular fashion
show with clothes from Yorkshire design-
ers showcased on the Kuoni Catwalk in
the new-look GYS Fashion Pavilion. This
included Sarina Dean, whose fashion firm
Galijah is run from her family’s 190-acre
farm at Oldstead near York, producing
individually hand-crafted tweed capes
which are now selling as far afield as Japan
and America.
Prince Andrew met two of the region’s
leading agricultural machinery suppliers,
Geoff Brown of Ripon Farm Machinery
and Paul Russell of the Russell Group of
Malton.
He watched show jumping in the main
ring and met sculptor Emma Stothard
who has created the Fodder 10 Hen to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of the
Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s farm shop
and café.
Prince Andrew also visited the Lely
robotic milking demonstration before
going on to meet renowned chef Steph
Moon at the Game Cookery Theatre.
The trip finished in the Military Village,
where he met members of the Yorkshire
Regiment.