The show celebrates all aspects of farming and rural life with classes for sheep, cattle, light horses, ponies and shire horses plus poultry, pigeon and egg sections.
The demonstration used 16 shire horses and 24-inch-diameter hemispheres.
In the 1920s however, most breweries decided to put their shire horses out to grass and switch to motor transport.
In keeping with this sense of history and tradition, the brewery keeps a small team of dapple-grey shire horses.
Yet he is passionately pro-hunting, though not himself a hunter—a horse could not be found that was stout enough for him, and shire horses, although stout, are not fast enough.
I also fear that it will tend to supersede shire horses.
Everybody knows that in regard to shire horses and hackneys the standards of the show ring are very strong and would die very hard.
From 1980 the company owned a famous prize winning shire horse team.
