Sarah Jackson on Lansdown Folly at yesterday’s opening West Show events, which suffered in the strong winds. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0621183)

WIND caused havoc as the West Show got going with the horse classes at L’Eree yesterday.
Fences were blown down and some had to be weighed down with sandbags.
‘It adds an element to it, really, because a lot of horses don’t like the wind,’ said show horse section subcommittee chairman Peter Ferris.
The show begins in earnest today when a major attraction will be a team of eight heavy horses that arrived from Ringwood, Hampshire, on Monday.
Neil and Mandy Peters and Mrs Peters’ parents, Jim and Jenny Beck, run the team as a family concern. This is their third visit to Guernsey. The oldest horse, Duke, 17, is the only survivor from their previous visit in the 1990s.
‘You don’t have many horses of this size on the island and they are big and impressive – something different,’ said Mrs Peters.