You have to hear them making a deal. "Go on you," and then they are grabbing each other's hand. "Give him this Mickey," spitting on their hand, and they are all gargled up after coming out of the pub and everything, but I tell you there'd be some deals going on and all the time they are spitting, slapping each other's hand. "She's worth more, she's a trotter," or another one, "She's a heavy filly. She's after getting this many foals that many foals" and then you just slap the hand twelve or thirteen hundred quid. So the money'd be paid over then there'd be a few bob up in the air and the kids would be delighted as well cos there'd be hundreds around watching them doing the deal. I do go home early and have my dinner and come back out to see them coming out of the pub. That's half of the fair, the best part of it, to see them all coming out of the pub. Ah it's brilliant it is.

Keith McVeigh