Stow Fair

[beckieswann]

Is anyone going?

I've always been too scared to go just incase I fall in love with all the ponies there, buy them and bring them home - don't think YM would be too pleased and nor would my bank a/c!

Has anyone been, and if so what's it really like? And has anyone ever bought from there? I've heard snippets but not a lot.. so would be quite interested to know!

 

[HensPens]

Don’t get me started, we had to go round last night removing all the rugs from outside the stables and locking them away, emptied all my stuff off the yard and into the car.

Was sat in the office at the yard waiting for Hens to finish his dinner and heard a car pull in. They went to park up, saw me walk out the office and drove off, very odd!

The police have been round to see us as there’s been a few horses found locally with plaited manes, they think they might be trying to mark them out from the rest for some reason?! Plus the usual reports of transit vans seen near locally livery yards.

Can’t wait for this week to be over!

 

[Cahill]

i`m not going this time because it will be muddy

 

[Lanky Loll]

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That won't put off the young girls in mini skirts (dayglo one's last time I went) and 5 inch heels wobbling about though

 

[Cahill]

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That won't put off the young girls in mini skirts (dayglo one's last time I went) and 5 inch heels wobbling about though

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and bare middles.
do they not feel the cold?

 

[Lanky Loll]

I reckon they've got built in central heating

 

[buddly]

don't bother we went in the spring and i wouldn't go again there was a few ok ponys some that i wanted to rescue!! and as said lots of girls with almost no clothes on was not very impressed with it atall!!!

 

[Lanky Loll]

OP - Unlike the sales they used to have at Andoversford they have very few ponys/horses there now it's mostly tat for sale and a chance for the travellers to all meet up.
If you want to go for "the spectacle" it can be worth it, if we go then it's in the morning and out by lunchtime as if there is going to be any trouble it normally starts later in the day.
If you want to go and buy a pony it's not been worth going for years.

 

[beckieswann]

cheers guys!! I've heard of it's bad rep - surprised it's still going to be honest!!

I might have to go and have a nose anyway, but like you said earlier rather than later!!

 

[Lanky Loll]

Have a great time

I think its a charter fair and if the locals had their way it would have been stopped years ago, but the travellers own the fair field now.

 

[Couloir]

I live near Stow, and go to the fair every year to look for ponies and horses to buy and bring on, you have to look hard, and not get sucked in by people giving you the hard sell - but it's well worth a look! In May I came home with a BEAUTIFUL little Welsh pony, he cost me £200, and I just sold him for £2,500!