Fair people are known as Showmen generally and are a diffeerent culture altogether.
CaveMum A horse was drowned at Appleby a few years ago. And if the reports I heard from people who were there are to be believed, the young man responsible was, shall we say, 'severely disciplined'. He had apparently been warned not to try to cross the river with the horse as he wasn't experienced enough to do it safely. Traveller men take their horses incredibly seriously....I've never come across a badly treated horse. They're generally better looked after than the wives.