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Stuart Buntine with a frangible hay feeder cross-country fence. An example of the internal 'parallelogram' can be seen on top of the fence.

Thoresby’s frangible fences

A new era of frangible cross-country fences will be use on tracks at the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby this week (28 to 30 March). The CCI4*-S dressage starts today (27 March) and the fences will be used on courses across the levels during the event. The series of fences all work on existing MIM technology used in frangible tables...