Main Arena Events
2025 Main Arena Timetable will be published in the official Show Programme available to purchase at the show from one of the programme stands. Timetable of events will also be posted and available to view at each arena. Line-up for all displays will be the same Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th April 2025 Programme subject to change.
The OMG FMX Stunt Team
Headlining the Main Arena this year are The OMG FMX Stunt Team. They will be performing twice per day on both Sat 26th & Sun 27th!
The OMG FMX Stunt Team are a fresh, record breaking, edge of your seat stunt team with many years of FMX and stunt riding experience.
The team tours all over the UK and beyond, performing to people of all ages and inspiring them to follow their dreams and encourage them to get involved in the FMX and stunt community. They have had the honour of performing on many TV shows and National west end productions including one night at the London Palladium, Britains Got Talent, The One Show, CBBC-My Life, Channel 5 Circus Kids and ITV Game of Talents UK.
We look forward to welcoming them to the show in April for the first time.
Don’t miss this spectacular show in the Main Arena!
The Shetland Pony Grand National
The Shetland Pony Grand National is a team of Shetland ponies and jockeys that race all over the country raising money for charity.
All the jockeys who take part are trying to gain one of the 10 places at the world famous ‘The London International Horse Show’ at Excel which takes in December, just before Christmas.
All the children taking part have to be aged between 8 and 14 years old and must be less than 5 ft in height. All the ponies taking part have to be registered with the Shetland Pony Stud Book. This is a fantastic and thrilling sport loved by all ages not to be missed at the Game & Country Fair.
Hywel Morgan
World and European Casting Champion, Hywel Morgan will be entertaining crowds with a Fly Fishing demo in the Main Arena. Hywel first stepped onto a casting platform at just 4 years old. Since the age of 14 he has regularly given demos at shows all over the UK. He is the only World Fly Casting Champion who demonstrates and has developed a wonderfully relaxed and humorous way of informing and educating the audience about the fascinating world of Fly Fishing. Hywel will also offer ‘have a go’ fly tying and casting tuition and demos on the Black Bourne River.
Horseboarding UK Championships
“Somewhere between scurry racing and wake boarding” describes Arena Boarding. Teams take on the clock around a course of gates, set to challenge the best boarders and horse riders, from long straights into sweeping bends and ninety degree turns. In terms of motorsport it is more like rallying or Formula 1. Teams have to work together to achieve the right racing line to take the bends and complete the course.
New board technology has meant that board riders can get more grip in the corners, but as the track gets scrubbed out, you will still see them power sliding round the bends kicking up dust like a rally car. This part of the sport has become so technical that board set-up, and even tyre choice has become critical. The teams push their boards to the limit as they fight it out, trying to shave 100ths of a second off their times. As will always happen, when sportsmen push themselves and their equipment to the limit, sometimes they find the edge. Crashes are frequent,- with the teams’ motto seeming to be “we will not win by going slower.”
An absolute must-see spectacle – you will not be able to take your eyes off it, as teams achieving already unbelievable speeds, get faster with each race.
Mid Norfolk Gun Dogs
The Mid Norfolk Gundog Club was formed over 25 years ago by a group of friends determined to improve the training, husbandry and breeding of working gundogs as well as the expertise of handlers.
Don’t miss their demo in the Main Arena – A taste of shoot day, demonstrating the different roles of a gundog, from flushing birds, sitting on a peg with a gun, to picking up at the end, with a unique opportunity to photo all the dogs sat up in a line without leads or handlers at the end of the demonstration.
Visitors are also welcome to talk to the Club Members at their stand on 2nd Ave South opposite the Gun Dog Scurry Arena.
Fens Falconry
Fens Falconry is a private bird of prey centre located in Wisbech, Cambs. They provide hands on experience days, flying demonstrations and educational visits for schools, community groups and clubs.
They have attended the East Anglian Game & Country Fair many times and is a team favourite. The amazing location and atmosphere lends itself perfectly to the beauty and skills of the Fens Falconry team of birds flying in the main arena. The aim is to amaze and entertain with birds diving, hovering, soaring and gliding with an entertaining commentary!
Simon Whitehead – Pakefield Ferrets
Simon Whitehead is a unique character amongst modern day Britain, if not the world. He is one of a small band of people that make their entire living from rabbits. He is a traditional warrener and author of many books which include the acclaimed ‘Ahead of the Game’. This is a book that delves into the history, harvest, preparation and cooking of wild rabbit. This forms the provenance of his demonstrations which are both educational and amusing!
In-between demonstrations Simon, his ferrets and dogs are on hand for interaction with the public and the static display is always a hive of activity as they are many questions to be answered, ferrets to be held and stories to be told. As ferreting is normally carried out in unsociable surroundings and often in solitude, Simon uses the arena demonstrations and static display to explain and illustrate why ferreting in the true sense of the word with ferreter, their ferret’s, dog and nets are fast becoming a more sought-after figure in the countryside and towns of the UK. The ferreter is the epitome of the organic and environmentally friendly hunter/gatherer and as such a supplier of first class organic, free range meat for the table. The world is moving on, technology is changing our society, but it is refreshing to find Simon trying to not only make people realise and understand why we ferret but more importantly, get newcomers into the countryside to continue such a fine tradition.
A raconteur of some repute, Simon can display, demonstrate and educate this traditional craft that has survived the growth in technology, showing why the Pakefield Ferrets motto of “ensuring the tradition of ferreting IS continued for further generations” is long remembered after the show has closed.
Hound Parade
A newly established and family-friendly trail hunt. The Waveney & Norfolk Harriers comprises the ‘White Woofers” who trail across North Norfolk and a Stud Book Harrier pack of hounds who Trail across South Norfolk and Suffolk. They lay trails using a stinky sock, the hounds find and run after it, and the riders follow the hounds!
Watch the spectacle in the main arena over the show weekend.
