Radford Shires

15/09/2026

So that's a wrap for 2026 show season finishing of with The Wessex Heavy Horse Show, where once again our girls done us proud.
Radford Cilla
🥇in the mare class
Overall Heavy Horse champion 🏆
Reserve champion 🏆 West of England in hand .
Radford Tina
🥇in the yearling class
Champion 🏆 youngstock.
A great day all round and a great way to finish the season.
Huge congratulations 👏 to Charlotte Webb for taking West of England champion not only in hand but harness as well, absolute credit to you and your amazing team Luke Beech Tom Beech Becci Churchill .
So for now their going to put their hooves up and chill and even get wet and muddy out in field 🤦‍♀️ and see what 2027 brings us .

28/08/2026

Yesterday saw us travelling down the A35 to Melplash show.
Only one horse on board today our girl Radford Cilla. Last time we attended this show was nearly 30 years ago doing a musical drive with Radford Heavy Horse Display team.
What a great day we had ,and not a drop of rain

🥇mare class
🏆 Overall champion Heavy Horse .

Congratulations to Charlotte Webb on taking reserve champion with the gorgeous Charlie.

Definitely a show to put on our calendar for next year.

23/08/2026

Radford Tina
Gillingham and Shaftesbury show
2025,2026

22/08/2026

Another week,another show, another Heavy Horse Village.
Gillingham and Shaftesbury show 2026.
Thankyou to all those that once again made our village a success 🙌 ,it goes without saying that all your hard work is really appreciated 👏,
Special shout out to Charlotte Webb and Tom Beech for your true professionalism when carrying on your fantastic display in a torrential rain 🌧 storm.
It wouldn't be right for us a Radford Shires to do a post and not mention our Special girls
Radford Cilla and Radford Tina, cilla once again doing us proud by taking top spot in the mare class 👏 and going on to be Heavy Horse champion 🏆.
Radford Tina what can I say about this little lady, taking 2nd in yearling and 2 year old class, but better than that ,she behaved absolutely perfectly not only in her showing class but also when making her debut in meeting and greeting the public (no pictures unfortunately of our girls in show ring this week )
Once again big thankyou 🙏 to all x

17/08/2026

🐎❤️

Mid somerset show 2026.
Our girl is back and firing 🔥 on all cylinders.
Mare class 🥇
Overall Heavy horse champion 🏆

Next stop Gillingham and Shaftesbury show 🐎🐎

17/08/2026

Mid somerset show 2026.
Our girl is back and firing 🔥 on all cylinders.
Mare class 🥇
Overall Heavy horse champion 🏆

Next stop Gillingham and Shaftesbury show 🐎🐎

01/08/2026

New Forest show 2026.
A busy show for us this year ,on top of running The Heavy Horse village we also provide stable management and lorry parking which this year was a challenge due to extra passport and animal checks but we all survived the week,
On top of all this we found time to show our horses or should I say Horse, Unfortunately Radford Cilla was taken poorly so we pulled her from the mare class .
So it was left for Yearling Radford Tina to bring home the red rosette.🐎🥇
Big thankyou to those that participated in the heavy horse village your hard work is very much appreciated.
Thanks goes to
Paul Willis Julie Willis
Kayleigh Emerald Newens Andy Jones
Jane Wordsworth Steve Kerswell
Sarah and james Dovey
And a big thankyou to Robinson Equine vets for taking such good care of our girl

28/06/2026

Spent a lovely day messing around with 2 year old Radford Mercury aka Freddie, really starting to fill out since being gelded 🐴🐴

14/06/2026

Royal three counties show 2026, spent a lovely couple of days at this show ,chuffed to bits with Radford Cilla once again standing 3rd in barren mare class and 4th in hoys qualifier ,she held her own amongst some of the top horses on the show circuit, congratulations to the Fountain family on taking top slot and hoys ticket .

31/05/2026

Bath and West 2026.

Our main focus this year was yearling Radford Tina first appearance in the show ring and we must say ,she took everything in her stride ,and taking first place,just a shame she was the only one in her class, looking forward to having her out in the future and letting Big sister Radford Cilla taking a back seat even though she did keep her company this weekend and took a very respectful 2nd place in the mare class amongst good company, so a good 👍 couple of days all round,and thankyou ☺️ to Charlie Charles-Hughes for all your help ,just like the old days working together .