PSNI presence at Balmoral

THE Police Service of Northern Ireland availed of the opportunity provided by Balmoral Show to publicise Operation Gallop, ‘preventing equine crime’.

The main objectives are to improve collaboration between police officers and partners; reduce crime including the theft of horses, trailers, horseboxes and tack; address fly grazing and welfare issues; encourage property marking of items; improve overall road safety, particularly where road-users are concerned; tackle illegal road racing; and develop working relationships and confidence between policing and the equestrian community.

With regard to that final objective, the officers handing out flyers at Balmoral made reference to large number of young people involved in equestrianism and the need for their welfare to be safeguarded in all instances.

Busy Red Mills team

THOSE working on the large Connolly’s Red Mills stand at last week’s Balmoral Show had a busy time as not only were they dealing with customers but they were also handing out rosettes and qualification cards to those combinations who bagged tickets for the Showing Ireland Champion of Champions Show.

While most presentations took place in or near the horse rings, Caroline Davis, Brand Manager for Carr & Day & Martin, and Jane Davis, Head of Marketing, Connolly’s Red Mills, had to head over to the Main Arena to make a presentation to Sarah Brittain on Altona Sly Mist Bouncer in the parade of champions while Caroline was also called in to make a presentation to Grace Maxwell Murphy and her husband William McMahon, owner and rider of the supreme hunter champion, Tulcon Hero.