{"id":180274,"date":"2025-10-05T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:03:08","slug":"pony-and-trap-racing-events-in-thames-valley-stopped-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180274\/","title":{"rendered":"Pony and trap racing events in Thames Valley stopped by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planned pony and trap racing events have been stopped by police to prevent &#8220;significant disruption&#8221;, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dispersal orders for areas around the A40 in Burford, Oxfordshire, and Lower Road in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, were issued by Thames Valley Police for planned private events on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supt Nicole Murphy said pony and trap racing was &#8220;not illegal in isolation&#8221;, but added that previous races held in the area in recent months had &#8220;led to significant disruption, as well as dangerous activity that puts road users at risk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People were previously told to avoid the area around Jeremy Clarkson&#8217;s Farmer&#8217;s Dog pub in Asthall in February because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y2zqzykvjo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pony and trap racing on the A40<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planned pony and trap racing events have been stopped by police to prevent &#8220;significant disruption&#8221;, officers said. Dispersal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-180274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}