GLORIOUS Bank Holiday sunshine helped add an extra glow to a traditional Yorkshire Dales show today (Monday, August 29).

Reeth Show hosted a day of entertainment in the heart of Upper Swaledale, celebrating its hill sheep farming heritage.

But in a diversion from traditional main ring attractions, this year the show featured camel racing from Joseph’s Amazing Camels.

The riders including a dairy farmer from Stratford-upon-Avon and a member of Warwickshire Pony Club, who entertained the crowds with an insight into the lives of the two-humped Bactrian camels, before racing the animals across the show ring.

The 104th show also featured its famous fell race up and down the towering Fremington Edge, overlooking the show field.

The Great Fremington Edge Fell Race forms part of the national fell race runs every year and features top regional runners, as well as children and local residents.

The sheep classes were as ever closely fought amongst the Dales breeds as the region’s many hill sheep farmers brought out their best animals.

Will Porter, 24, from nearby Summer Lodge Farm, whose Swaledale won the male aged ram class, said: “We’ve been coming to this show for the last ten year, we go to this and Muker show. I think people are more interested in traditional Dales farming.”

Ian Bell, who farms with his uncle and cousin at Askrigg, submitted the overall Swaledale winner, and said: “This is the first show we’ve done this year.

"It’s nice to get people coming round here chatting away, asking about Swaledale sheep.”

There were also classes for poultry, dogs, horses and ponies, tractors and other vintage vehicles and sheep dog trials.

Arts and crafts were celebrated in the crafts tent, where vegetables including giant cabbages, onions and leeks filled several tables. People also entered floral arrangements into the classes, home baking, homemade preserves, wines and spirits. A large amount of artwork by children was also entered into the classes, including one which involved creating monsters from vegetables and sweets.

Vice president of the show, George Wallis said: “I would say it’s gone very well. The number of visitors seems to speak for itself. We’ve also been lucky with the weather.”