Livestock & Horses

PLEASE NOTE - CHANGE OF JUDGE

The Ridden Arab Horse classes at the 2008 Kent County Show will be judged by Mr D Froggatt instead of Mrs C Bennett.

The Ridden Coloured Horse classes 276 & 277 will be judged by Mr W Thoneycroft instead of Mrs J Hart.

Miss L Briant of Grittenham, Wiltshire is now unable to judge the conformation of the Mountain & Moorland Intermediate Working Hunter Ponies at this year's Kent County Show. Miss Briant will be replaced by Mrs D Steains of Ashburnham, East Sussex.

Livestock classes

Show schedules and entry forms available for the following competitions and classes:

Cattle closing date for entries Friday 9th May 2008

Supreme Cattle Championship, Champion Dairy Female, Champion Beef Award, Cattle Interbreed Competition, Champion Pairs Competition, Beef Cattle Lines Trophy, Dairy Cattle Lines Trophy, Awards for Stockmen, British Blonde, British Belgian Blue, British Charolais, British Simmental, Hereford, Limousin, Sussex, Any Other Pure Bred Native Beef, Commercial Beef,  Beefbreeder Bull Competition, Any Other Pure Bred Dairy, Dexter, Holstein, Jersey, Milk Recorded Cattle. Exhibitor Bred Dairy Competition, Cattle Sweepstakes, Cattle Young Handlers Competition, Beef Cow or Heifer with Calf Competition

Sheep closing date for entries Friday 9th May 2008

Supreme Sheep Championship, Supreme Sheep Interbreed Competition, Best Sheep Exhibit, Romney, Southdown, Suffolk, Jacob, Texel, British Down, Lleyn, Charollais, Beltex, Any Pure Breed of Continental Origin, Any Other Pure Breed, Sheep Pairs’ Sweepstakes, Sheep Young Handlers, Interbreed Champion Groups of  Three, Wool, Wool on the Hoof

Pigs closing date for entries Friday 9th May 2008

Pork Pigs, Live & Dead Cutter Pigs, Any Breed or Cross Breed, Champion Novice, Pig Young Handlers’ Competition

Goats closing date for entries Friday 9th May 2008

Dairy Goats, Goat Young Handlers’ Competition

Llamas closing date for entries Friday 9th May 2008

Horses closing date for entries Friday 9th May 2008

Shires, Agricultural Working Horses, Heavy Horse Turnouts, Best Shod Heavy Horse Competition, Light Farm & Trade Turnouts, Hunters, Sport Horse Breeding, Hack Breeding, Hacks, Cobs, Riding Horses, Coloured Horses, Arabs, Retrained Racehorses, Miniature Horses, Children’s Ponies, In Hand Pony Breeding, Mountain and Moorland Ponies, Breeders’ Challenge Supreme In-Hand Championship, Double Harness Scurry, Inter Hunt Team Relay Competition

Show Jumping closing date for entries Friday 6th June 2008

Senior affiliated show jumping classes on each day of the Show, Riding Club Teams

For entry forms please send a SAE with 60p stamp to: Livestock Co-ordinator, Kent County Agricultural Society, Kent Event & Exhibition Centre, County Showground, Detling, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 3JF.

N.B. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE ON OFFICIAL KENT COUNTY SHOW FORMS.