SHOWS: WHAT’S ON willing that circumstances allow it to happen. Our main concern is that everyone stays safe.” In the meantime, for competitors to get their eye in after a long break for many, the second round of Virtual Search for a Star is set to take place on 10th - 11th April at Your Horse Virtually Live. Photo entries for these classes will be judged by members of the team of Search for a Star judges, with detailed feedback for the winning horses and ponies. Virtual Search for a Star will include classes for mountain and moorlands, show hunters, riding horses, hacks, details of qualifiers and venues to www.seib.co.uk/competitions show cobs, diamond pony, traditional cobs, part-bred as they become available. traditional cobs, RDA horse or Search for a Star classes with pony, racehorses with amateur finals at HOYS include; hacks, hunters, working pony, working owner / riders and new for 2021, horses, riding horses, traditional veterans. Entries are open until 8th March 2021. gypsy cobs – of any colour, Search for a Star is purely for show cobs, and the longstanding SEIB Racehorse to amateur riders and this rule is very strictly enforced. The ridden Riding Horse final. Search for a SEIB Horse of the Year Show Star qualifiers in the mountain Racehorse to Riding Horse class and moorland classes, veteran is open to professional and horse or pony and part-bred traditional cob will head to Your amateur riders. SEIB support ethical showing and testing for Horse Live for their prohibited substances and tack championships. inspections may take place. The SEIB Marketing Manager Search for a Star full schedule Nicolina MacKenzie said: “Will we run this year, won’t we, who will be released in due course. www.seib.co.uk/competitions knows!? But we seriously hope to. The plan is there, we are just
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EIB Search for a Star 2021 is set to include exciting new classes for amateur show riders. Search for a Star ridden and virtual veterans and Search for a Star part-bred traditional ridden cobs have been added to this ever-popular series. The champions in these new classes – all being well – will be crowned at finals to be held at Your Horse Live in November. Virtual classes will go ahead in April and it is hoped that the ridden qualifiers will take place later in the year. Search for a Star first took place back in 1996 and over the years has provided thousands of opportunities for amateur riders
to compete at championship shows. Traditionally the highlight of Search for a Star is the opportunity to qualify and compete at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). In recent years, in addition to the HOYS finals, Search for a Star now has championship classes in the main arena at Your Horse Live as well. For 2021, it is intended that all classes for the ever-popular SEIB Search for a Star and Racehorse to Riding Horse series will get underway with qualifiers beginning early in the summer months. The SEIB team organising Search for a Star are working closely with Horse of the Year Show and Your Horse Live. The SEIB team will add
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ressage will continue at one of the country’s most famous showgrounds, with the All England Jumping Course set to host a Premier League show in May 2021. The three-day fixture (21st-23rd May) will include classes from Advanced Medium to Grand Prix, with entries expected from a number of British Dressage’s leading riders. More than £500,000 has been spent on making several existing grass rings into two vast allweather arenas, with top of the range Andrews Bowen surfaces. During the winter months, these arenas are used for cross-country and showjumping schooling courses, but at the beginning of the 2021 summer season they will be transformed to create a Premier League dressage venue with a number of arenas running concurrently as well as an international sized warm-up arena.
