Vale of Glamorgan Show (V of Glam)

“Held at Penllyn, the Show…is now the largest one day event in the Vale of Glamorgan. Alongside the livestock and horse showing there are more than 200 Trade Stands on the field marketing and selling a huge variety of goods.” Like so many of these ‘country shows’ you can scour the VofG Show website for any mention of hunting and not find any. There is nothing on the Dogs page, on the Showground page, though a cropped image of a red coat on the Guidance for Visitors page hints that the Show regularly hosts the Glamorgan Hunt, allowing them to ‘parade’ their hounds in front of visitors. The Hunt is due at the 2025 Show, which organisers confirmed in an email, and the Hunt themselves came over all excited about it on their Facebook page. The importance of shows like this to hunting was proved when after one show was disrupted by kennel cough, the Countryside Alliance Hunting Facebook feed posted “The West of England Hound Show is one of the highlights of the summer hunting calendar and we hope that the hunting community will continue to support the show this year…” The Vale of Glamorgan Show will know this, and it’s a shame it persists in stubbornly promoting hunting to its visitors without openly saying so on its website…