FMM
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Message on the Royal website to say that the show is closed to visitors tomorrow due to health and safety reasons. All the HOYS qualifiers will go ahead as planned.
The Royal Closed to Visitors Wednesday
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spaniel
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Presume its the rain??
lizzie_liz
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The car parking yesterday was quite muddy, we were parking in fields that hadn't been used on the sunday and cars were getting stuck.
We also had a torrential downpour in the afternoon and the grass areas were getting rather muddy.
We also had a torrential downpour in the afternoon and the grass areas were getting rather muddy.
FMM
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This is the walkway before we had the bad rain yesterday. The worst bit is the horsebox parking - there are massive craters all over the parking area. It was raining so much I couldn't get my camera out to take a pic of the lorry parking!
spaniel
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I can see people slipping over and breaking ankles if it gets any worse.
paintsplat05
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eek whe we went last year it was blisteringly hot!
stupid rain
stupid rain
FMM
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PRESS RELEASE
Royal Show to conclude a day early
Saturated showground increases public safety concerns
The Royal Show at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire is to finish a day early but organisers are to continue to run the horse event to make sure Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) qualifying rounds can be completed.
The decision, taken by the honorary show director Mark Spencer with his chief stewards, will see livestock classes completed a day early and public told not to visit the 168th Royal Show on Wednesday (July 4) because health and safety precautions are being implemented.
Mark Spencer says that the unusually high rainfall since the show started on Sunday resulted in the normally sound showground and car parking areas becoming saturated.
We consulted with our own health and safety officers, Warwickshire police and viewed Met Office forecasts to arrive at the decision, he says. We managed showground and car parking ground conditions before and during the first three days of the show, spreading large amounts of wood chips, chatter and straw. However, continuing heavy rain showers meant the ground could not take more water. We had no option other than to protect the safety of visitors, standholders and others involved in the event.
Clearly we are very disappointed to have made the decision to end the show a day early but are sure everyone will understand that safety is paramount.
Our stewards are intent on running the equestrian competitions on the higher, and therefore drier, ground to ensure those competing in HOYS qualifying rounds are not disappointed.
Organisers called on the broadcast and online media to announce the decision and to point out to the public that the show would not run on Wednesday.
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Royal Show to conclude a day early
Saturated showground increases public safety concerns
The Royal Show at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire is to finish a day early but organisers are to continue to run the horse event to make sure Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) qualifying rounds can be completed.
The decision, taken by the honorary show director Mark Spencer with his chief stewards, will see livestock classes completed a day early and public told not to visit the 168th Royal Show on Wednesday (July 4) because health and safety precautions are being implemented.
Mark Spencer says that the unusually high rainfall since the show started on Sunday resulted in the normally sound showground and car parking areas becoming saturated.
We consulted with our own health and safety officers, Warwickshire police and viewed Met Office forecasts to arrive at the decision, he says. We managed showground and car parking ground conditions before and during the first three days of the show, spreading large amounts of wood chips, chatter and straw. However, continuing heavy rain showers meant the ground could not take more water. We had no option other than to protect the safety of visitors, standholders and others involved in the event.
Clearly we are very disappointed to have made the decision to end the show a day early but are sure everyone will understand that safety is paramount.
Our stewards are intent on running the equestrian competitions on the higher, and therefore drier, ground to ensure those competing in HOYS qualifying rounds are not disappointed.
Organisers called on the broadcast and online media to announce the decision and to point out to the public that the show would not run on Wednesday.
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skewbaldpony
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we were there today.
very very wet, carparks trashed, they had to pay a guy to cut a field of maize just to create another useable carpark.
then there was a coach in a ditch, then a tractor in a ditch trying to pull the coach out !!!
Health and safety concerns meant they had to close to the public, but HOYS qualifiers will go ahead.
very very wet, carparks trashed, they had to pay a guy to cut a field of maize just to create another useable carpark.
then there was a coach in a ditch, then a tractor in a ditch trying to pull the coach out !!!
Health and safety concerns meant they had to close to the public, but HOYS qualifiers will go ahead.