It would be good to know if there are plans for any show in the north.

I went to the Leamington spa show last year and it seemed well attended.

Surely there is appetite for a show up here?

I recall it was a long time before the 2023 one appeared on the YEC web-site calendar, then last year the YEC managers totally ignored it when they created the same site’s album of the previous year’s shows. By telephone call directly to the YEC, I learnt the late publicity was due to late confirmation from the exhibition organiser.

So I take it no-one wanted to organise another, and that the YEC does not want it anyway.

The calendar and album suggest the YEC is now only interested in trade-shows anyway, both open to the public and those exclusive to commercial delegates.

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Doncaster Racecourse hosted it only twice, I think, while the owners of the Great Yorkshire Showground were refurbishing theirs and denigrating it to a mere “event centre”. Could be worse… could be a “hub”.

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I did attend the second Doncaster show and enjoyed it once there, but vowed never to risk driving through that city again. (The racecourse is a nightmare to reach from the M1.) It also had the highest-price, lowest-value snack-bar I’ve encountered even in London exhibition-halls or motorway services, but anything equine-related means £££ by the muck-shovel full.

On the other hand I enjoyed the 2023 Harrogate exhibition, which is easy to reach even from the West, through the city.

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About three years ago there was a rumour of talk of holding an exhibition in the South-West, but I think it was only talk – or only rumour of talk.