Great Yorkshire Show - in pictures

A Clydesdale horse exercises in a dew-covered paddock at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Do 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 stewards Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Some pig: Jolie Matthews showing her Saddleback sow Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

A giant exercises a horse - or is it a normally sized man leading a foal? Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

The Harrogate fringe: so hot right now Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

A man spray-paints one of his sheep Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

The decorated mane on a Clydesdale horse (with Swedish ancestry, perhaps) Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

A Highland calf waits in her stall Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Will Watson from Skipton prepares to show one of his Texel sheep for the first time - using a specially adapted smartphone Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Henry Croker, 14, from Penrith shears sheep in his first year of competition. The sheep lies back and thinks of England Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Stewards look on during judging of Highland cattle. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Cattle await spray-tan treatment ahead of the show Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Chalk used to whiten the legs blows from a Clydesdale horse during judging Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images