Harrier here, Marty is still staging her protest.  I can now report the conclusions from yesterdays trip to the horse-trials now the collie has been debriefed.  It would appear that the horse trials is a suitable venue for the acquisition of freebie dog treats which have been well received especially as they are wheat free ones.  The shopping area also had dog coats, collars, leads etc. although nobody thought to buy us anything.  Collie did initially think that it was a waxed jacket and striped jumper convention with wellies or country boots as compulsory footwear until she saw a horse run past, followed by other ones at regular intervals.  A lot of the fences showed skilled woodwork, Aunty Biscuit particularly liked a wooden prawn thing at one of the water jumps and a row of carved dogs sitting in kennels.  Mums favourite was a big wooden owl in the middle of a fence.  

Collie reports back that the fences were very big, which wasn’t surprising as it was an international event which included people who had ridden in the Olympics.  What is surprising is that collie didn’t attempt to acquire one of the beams as a stick and drag it home, but this can be accounted for by the fact that dogs needed to be kept on leads at all time.  As well as giving mum and Aunty Biscuit (much needed) chance to practice action shots of very good horses leaping over interesting obstacles and plenty of exercise,  they managed to look at several crafted items from leatherwork to jewellery whilst browsing.