Elite Equine Associated Championships

from British Dressage - Issue 8 2021

What’s in the bag?

MEET SOME OF THE COMBINATIONS WHO TOOK TOP HONOURS AT THE ELITE EQUINE ASSOCIATED CHAMPIONSHIPS AT VALE VIEW EQUESTRIAN, WHERE SEVENTY-SEVEN TITLES WERE AWARDED IN THE CATEGORIES OF RETRAINING OF RACEHORSES, THOROUGHBREDS, VETERAN RIDERS, VETERAN HORSES AND CHAPS.

PHOTOS © KEVIN SPARROW LEFT: KAROLINA NICHOLS

THANKS HER ROR NOVICE

SILVER WINNER NODACHI I (RIP

VAN WINKLE X ALHAARTH).

BELOW: FERN GARBUTT

FROM NORTH YORKSHIRE AND

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD COLINUNDRUM

IMPRESSED TO WIN THE PRELIM

SILVER FOR THOROUGHBREDS SILVER FOR THOROUGHBREDS

ON 71.55%, THE HIGHEST ON 71.55%, THE HIGHEST

SCORE OF THE CATEGORY. SCORE OF THE CATEGORY.

ROR CHAMPIONSHIPS

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THOROUGHBRED CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Intro Bronze Jade Taylor with her own Some Kinda Lama, 66.41% Preliminary Bronze Pat Clayton with her own Budsson, 66.55% Silver Fern Garbutt with her own Colinundrum, 71.55% Gold Leonie Alldrick with her own Maghroom, 61.63% Novice Bronze Katie Spitzmaul with her own Lord Rofl ow, 68.71% Silver Karolina Nichols with her own Nodachi I, 68.79% Elementary Bronze Pippa Jones with her own Starskie, 68.60% Silver Karolina Nichols with her own Nodachi I, 66.25% Medium Bronze Katy Ferrari with her own Sirius Chesnut, 63.82% Silver Charlotte Wilson with her own Orwellian, 65.22% Advanced Bronze Tracy Thirlwall with her own Tapaidh Frankie, 66.21% Medium Silver Silver Leanne Jackson with her own Jazzwooderh, 63.52%

Jade Taylor with her own Some Kinda Lama, 67.17%

LEFT: THE LEADING SCORE ACROSS THE ROR CLASSES CAME COURTESY THE LEADING SCORE ACROSS THE ROR CLASSES CAME COURTESY OF PRELIM GOLD WINNER LAURA WATSON WITH HER 18-YEAR-OLD OF PRELIM GOLD WINNER LAURA WATSON WITH HER 18-YEAR-OLD SON OF DESERT PRINCE, SIR ARTHUR. II. SON OF DESERT PRINCE, SIR ARTHUR. II. ABOVE: FIRST PAST THE POST IN THE ROR PRELIM SILVER WAS JO YORK WITH 12-YEAR-OLD DARNATHEAN (LIBRETTIST X DIKAT).

Intro Bronze Jade Taylor with her own Some Kinda Lama, 67.17% Preliminary Bronze Jade Taylor with her own Bennynthejets, 68.64% Silver Jo York with her own Darnathean, 69.68% Gold Laura Watson with her own Sir Arthur II, 71.56% Novice Bronze Kirstin Mellor with her own The Land Agent, 69.06% Silver Karolina Nichols with her own Nodachi I, 65.93% Elementary Bronze Jane Phillips with her own Fair Duchess, 67.84% Silver Gemma Lewis with George Dinsdale’s Looney Les, 67.84% Medium Bronze Natalie Pettitt with her own Riffelalp, 64.92% Silver Charlotte Wilson with her own Orwellian, 67.04% Advanced Bronze Patricia Haskins with her own Crewezando, 65.81% Medium Silver Charlotte Wilson with her own Orwellian, 63.91%

PHOTOS © KEVIN SPARROW

BELOW: SAMANTHA SAMANTHA

MURRAY RODE MURRAY RODE HER DAUGHTERHER DAUGHTERIN- LAW IN- LAW NATALIE NATALIE TANNER’S TANNER’S BIONICLE W BIONICLE W TO VICTORY TO VICTORY IN THE THE IN THE THE NOVICE NOVICE SILVER FOR SILVER FOR HORSES AGED HORSES AGED 15-19. 15-19.

VETERAN HORSE CHAMPIONSHIPS: 15-19 YEARS

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Intro Bronze Patricia Ray with her own Brynithon Summers Magic, 66.19% Preliminary Bronze Louise Swindells with her own Teddy’s Diamond, 66.40% Silver Vicky Pepper with her own Tara IV, 68.60% Gold Kimberley Heginbotham with her own Machno Bond, 68.80% Novice Bronze Anna Godfrey with her own Charlie XXIV, 66.81% Silver Samantha Murray with Natalie Tanner’s Bionicle W, 71.63% Gold Fiona Fletcher with her own Fillinsky, 66.63% Elementary Bronze Alice Croft with her own Higglytown Hero, 66.98% Silver Zoe Golding with her own Ballingowan Stoneyman, 68.53% Medium Bronze Imogen Arrowsmith with her own Lussaltown Marry Me, 64.48% Silver John Bowers with his own Wiaronette, 64.22% Advanced Bronze Deborah Annesley-Williams with her own Darkie, 63.01% Medium Silver Amanda Dyson with her own Azzaro II, 65.66% Prix St Silver Josephine Clewlow with her own Bon Jovi AKW, 60.26% Georges Gold Nick Lawson with Gloria Price’s Iceblue Valentino, 65.65%

RIGHT:

KIMBERLEY HEGINBOTHAM AND HER 15-YEAROLD WELSH COB, MACHNO BOND, IMPRESSED TO WIN THE PRELIM GOLD FOR HORSES AGED 15-19.

VETERAN RIDER CHAMPIONSHIPS

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LEFT: SALLY-ANN TUCKER (60) WITH TUCKER (60) WITH DR WHO ON HER DR WHO ON HER WAY TO CLAIMING WAY TO CLAIMING THE VETERAN RIDER THE VETERAN RIDER NOVICE SILVER NOVICE SILVER CHAMPIONSHIP. CHAMPIONSHIP.

Intro Bronze Patricia Ray with her own Brynithon Summers Magic, 65.97% Preliminary Bronze Pip Walker with her own Castle Pirate, 64.68% Silver Gaynor Vines with her own Hu-ray Henry, 67.29% Gold Philippa Hamilton with her own Hudson III, 67.60% Novice Bronze Sarah Leggat with her own Riverfi elds Bay Prince, 66.56% Silver Sally-Ann Tucker with her own Dr Who, 69.37% Elementary Bronze Caroline Elliss with her own Atlantic Royal Star, 66.03% Silver Denise Glanville with her own Gypsy Fortune, 70.17% Medium Bronze Denise Glanville with her own Gypsy Fortune, 70.15% Silver Sally Hall with her own Falira, 68.10% Advanced Bronze Carolyn Taylor with her own Curban B, 65.00%

Medium

Prix St Silver Julie Hyslop with her own Rubin Star Lioness, 63.88%

Georges

ABOVE: VETERAN RIDER DENISE GLANVILLE (60), JUDGES REP FOR THE BD NORTH & WEST REGION, TWICE BROKE THROUGH THE 70% BARRIER TO ACHIEVE AN IMPRESSIVE DOUBLE WITH HER BRITISH-BRED MARE, GYPSY FORTUNE (BY GRAFENSTOLZ).

LEFT: FORMER INTERNATIONAL SMALL TOUR RIDE OF MICHAEL EILBERG, TORINO, OWNED BY ROB LICKLEY AND NOW AGED 21, LOOKED A PICTURE UNDER LIZZIE HUGHES TO CLAIM THE VETERAN HORSE 20+ ADVANCED MEDIUM GOLD.

VETERAN HORSE CHAMPIONSHIPS: 20+ YEARS

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Intro Bronze Angie Driver with her own Arianna, 62.17% Preliminary Bronze Amanda Blaze-Smith with her own Mr Pots, 68.60% Silver Katie Hughes with her own Marble Arch VIII, 69.10% Novice Bronze Kim Turner with her own Blackie, 68.19% Silver Amelia Ward with her own Tireve What’s Wanted, 69.31% Elementary Bronze Amelia Ward with her own Tireve What’s Wanted, 68.53% Silver Natalie Anderson with her own Double Black Diamond, 68.62% Gold Nick Lawson with Ruth Webb’s Pasajes I, 67.32% Medium Bronze Jackie Crombie with her own Donniro, 66.20% Silver Catherine Ellis with her own Prince Maurice, 68.36% Gold Nick Lawson with Ruth Webb’s Pasajes I, 68.44% Advanced Bronze Sarah Halls with her own Pavarotti II, 68.82% Medium Silver Nicola Kirkham with her own Salvador S, 67.20% Gold Lizzie Hughes with Robert Lickley’s Torino, 70.66%

CHAPS CHAMPIONSHIPS sponsored by Elite Equine

Intro Bronze Joanne State with her own Roxley Kahlua Star, 68.37% Preliminary Bronze Jodie Aston with her own Milli, 68.71% Silver Rachel Ovens with Melody Smith’s Secretlodge, 69.91% Gold Emma Jablonski with her own Multivision, 72.06% Novice Bronze Lynden Barrow with her own Fleur C, 67.50% Silver Rowena Mottershead with her own Spirit XIV, 68.06% Gold Freya Metters with Raine Harthern’s Heathersedge Just a Vision, 71.77% Elementary Bronze Sarah Hayter-Sharpe with Lucky Turn, 67.50% Silver Freya Metters with Raine Harthern’s Heathersedge Just A Vision, 71.39% Gold Claire Randall with her own Floris VI, 64.19% Medium Bronze Corinne McNamara with her own Hot Toddy VII, 64.11% Silver Silver Jaz Gualtieri with Samantha Gualtieri’s Shiraz II, 65.73% Jaz Gualtieri with Samantha Gualtieri’s Shiraz II, 65.73%

ABOVE: EMMA JABLONSKI AND FOUR-YEAROLD MULTIVISION (DREAM BOY X NEGRO) ACHIEVED A WINNING 72.06% TO TAKE THE CHAMPS PRELIM GOLD. BELOW: WINS AT NOVICE SILVER AND ELEMENTARY BRONZE SEALED A DOUBLE FOR AMELIA WARD (22) AND HER 26-YEAR-OLD WELSH GELDING, TIREVE WHAT’S WANTED. AMELIA HAS OWNED AND RIDDEN ‘FREDDIE’ SINCE SHE WAS NINE!