A Clydesdale horse exercises in a dew-covered paddock at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesDo you ever get the feeling you're just bashing your head against a brick wall? A bull waits to be led into the paddock to be judged by stewardsPhotograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesSome pig: Jolie Matthews showing her Saddleback sowPhotograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
A giant exercises a horse - or is it a normally sized man leading a foal?Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesThe Harrogate fringe: so hot right nowPhotograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesA man spray-paints one of his sheepPhotograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesThe decorated mane on a Clydesdale horse (with Swedish ancestry, perhaps)Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesA Highland calf waits in her stall Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesWill Watson from Skipton prepares to show one of his Texel sheep for the first time - using a specially adapted smartphone Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesHenry Croker, 14, from Penrith shears sheep in his first year of competition. The sheep lies back and thinks of EnglandPhotograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesStewards look on during judging of Highland cattle. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesCattle await spray-tan treatment ahead of the showPhotograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesChalk used to whiten the legs blows from a Clydesdale horse during judging Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
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