A one-off, Blowzabella. Get over it. The police and RSPCA would be better employed tackling dog-fighting than wasting their time at an event as innocuous as the Appleby fair. And why was Greg's point about the meat industry dismissed so lightly? Do all those who would scrap a centuries-old tradition on account of one wretched horse refrain from eating the produce of our meat factories? (FWIW, I do.)

Of course, neither the meat industry nor dog-fighting - nor for that matter the equestrian sports that have been mentioned - are associated primarily with travellers.