In the Park

Saturday in the Park

The People’s Park is Portadown’s hidden gem – only yards from the town centre and providing acres and acres of wonderful green space. It’s in the Park on Heritage Saturday that we’ll be hosting a variety of equestrian activities. Make your way there by passing down Woodhouse Street or down through the Magowan West car park. Walk through the underpass, past the railway station, then turn right and you’re there!

The All-Ireland final of the Connemara Foal Championship will be taking place in the People’s Park. This event is the culmination of a whole series of competitions held all over Ireland during 2010 and the first half of 2011. Come along and see the splendour and beauty of this very special breed. Check out the N Ireland Connemara Pony Breeders Association website at www.nicpba.co.uk

The Park will also be the venue for some very stylish driving by the N Ireland Branch of the British Driving Society. Make sure you get along to this to see all the style and elegance of a by-gone age with some beautifully trained horses and incredibly well presented carriages of all sorts. And, in many cases, the drivers’ clothing would have been all the fashion before some of us were born – a very atmospheric series of events in these wonderful green surroundings.

The park also plays host to The Shetland and Riding Association who will, once again, be here with their beautiful little ponies.

Check out the various country themes to be seen in many of the windows of the town’s retail premises. They’re competing in the Country Comes To Town ‘Best Dressed’ window competition. Don’t be afraid to offer your own opinion to any of the CCTT committee.

There will be loads more to see and do during Country Comes To Town. We’re still confirming events and activities to make 2011’s Country Comes To Town even bigger and better than ever. Just keep an eye on this space over the next couple of weeks.