Appleby fair

[dozzie]

Do the police check horses passports at Appleby Fair?

No... Im not going... just wondering....

Only asking out of interest as Ive been reading the tracing/ stolen etc posts.

 

[EMWSanctuaries]

if there is a query regarding a possible stolen yes...passports pass through hands very fast at horse fairs. :-/
emw.

 

[browbrow]

Hi not really no

There is a stand at Appleby (and its legal) that will make you a passport for your horse on the spot for about £15? Police are normally stood chatting to them!! TSH

These passports are a right boobs up farse - they need to be sorted out - my three yr old niece could knock one up!

 

[dozzie]

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There is a stand at Appleby (and its legal) that will make you a passport for your horse on the spot for about £15? Police are normally stood chatting to them!! TSH

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Well it makes a mockery of the whole system doesnt it! I thought you could be fined for travelling a horse without a passport? Or is this a myth?

 

[browbrow]

Yep - you can be fined - its a total mokery of a sham!!!

So is the 'its illegal to sell a horse without a passport but not illegal to buy one without a passport'

Another government joke - the horse passports are half heartedly done - someone needs to sort it out !!

 

[Stinkbomb]

I was of the understanding its not the Police's job to check passports is the local trading standards. Is that right anyone

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[rdc1000]

It is not illegal to travel a horse for the purposes of schooling, moving yards, going hacking etc without a passport at hand (i.e. you can leave them at home). It is a legal requirement to have a passport when travelling a horse for competitions, to be sold etc.

I come from the Appleby area originally, I went to the secondary school there. If anybody knows how Appleby works then I think the police/trading standards/DEFRA, would have a hard time proving that a horse is being taken there to be sold, the fact that they are then sold when they get there is neither here nor there, and to be honest many of them end up not being sold.

The fact you can buy a horse without a passport is the funniest part of this sort of behaviour, but thats the law for you. As for the £15 passport stall, I think thats fine. Many groups make them up for about that price, and many of those look like botch jobs, but if all of the information is there then what can you do eh?!