Elite Equine Associated Championships

MEET SOME OF THE COMBINATIONS WHO TOOK TOP HONOURS AT THE ELITE EQUINE ASSOCIATED CHAMPIONSHIPS AT BURY FARM EQUESTRIAN CENTRE, WHERE NINETY-SEVEN TITLES WERE AWARDED IN THE CATEGORIES OF RETRAINING OF DRAUGHT HORSES, ARABS, GBPRE, LUSITANO, NATIVES AND TGCA.

Medium Silver Claire Brown with her own Oxnead Act One, 64.33% Elementary Bronze Kate Austin with her own The Midnight Rebel, 62.50% Novice Gold Mark Walters with Jacqueline Hollis’s Wayfi eld Warrior, 69.83% Novice Silver Jessica Martin with her own Timber, 67.17% Novice Bronze Kate Joyce with her own Tomriland Billy, 66.69% Preliminary Gold Mark Walters with Jacqueline Hollis’s Wayfi eld Warrior, 71.89% Preliminary Silver Kate Joyce with her own Tomriland Billy, 68.87% Preliminary Bronze Asha Speak with her own My Mister P, 71.55% Intro Bronze Georgina Steele with her own Samjen Charlie, 67.93%

RIGHT: MARK WALTERS WITH JACQUELINE HOLLIS’S FORMER RIDING SCHOOL HORSE WAYFIELD WARRIOR (BY WELCOME FLAGMOUNT). MARK AND THE 15-YEAR-OLD IRISH DRAUGHT GELDING WON THE DRAUGHT HORSE PRELIM GOLD ON 71.89% - AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT FOR A HORSE THAT MADE HIS DRESSAGE DEBUT JUST THREE MONTHS EARLIER!

LEFT: CHERYL STACEY AND HER 14-YEAR-OLD PART-BRED DRAUGHT GELDING, MANNANAN COOL CUSTOMER (BY YOUNG GEORGE) NOT ONLY ACHIEVED A DOUBLE WIN BUT ALSO EARNED THE HIGHEST SCORE ACROSS THE CATEGORY WITH 69.48% IN THE ELEMENTARY SILVER.

Medium Gold Dominique Mills with Sandra Tresidder’s Crosstown Mollteser, 66.54% Silver Helen Airey and Christopher McGrann’s Moonshine II, 66.10% Bronze Cheryl Stacey with her own Mannanan Cool Customer, 63.45% Elementary Gold Dominique Mills with Sandra Tresidder’s Crosstown Mollteser, 69.26% Silver Cheryl Stacey with her own Mannanan Cool Customer, 69.48% Bronze Anna Hickling with her own Kaspier Lad, 65.66% Novice Gold Joanna Dunn with Claire Dunn’s Pembrooke Masterpiece, 67.66% Silver Sophie Plater with her own Beyond the Stars, 66.61% Bronze Amber Wickens with her own Ballykelly Clover Diamond, 62.17% Preliminary Silver Katie Hughes with her own Marble Arch VIII, 66.20%

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Elementary Bronze Rebecca Gant with her own Binley Silver Spark, 61.61% Elementary Silver Kit Rolfe with her own Kavanaghs Imperial Assal, 63.08% Novice Silver Kit Rolfe with her own Kavanaghs Imperial Assal, 63.62% Novice Bronze Adam Montebello with his own Obsession II, 67.09% Preliminary Silver Adam Montebello with his own Obsession II, 70.25% Preliminary Bronze Julie Smart with her own Mister Ambassador SER, 67.50% Intro Bronze Claire Conway with her own Khlasseema, 65.10%

LEFT: ADAM MONTEBELLO (22) WAS A DUAL WINNER WITH HIS SIX-YEAR-OLD ARAB GELDING, OBSESSION II. THIS YOUNG COMBINATION CLAIMED THE NOVICE BRONZE AND ALSO THE HIGHEST SCORE OF ALL THE PUREBRED ARABS WITH 70.25% IN THE PRELIM SILVER.

RIGHT: HANNAH REILLY AND HER NINE-YEAR-OLD BRITISH RIDING PONY, WHALTON EXTRAVAGANZA (KILVINGTON SCOUNDREL X YEALAND NEMENSIS), ON THEIR WAY TO A DECISIVE WIN IN THE PARTBRED ARAB PRELIM BRONZE.

ABOVE: TIME TO CELEBRATE FOR TANIA GRANTHAM AND MICHELLE VAN MEURS’ 10-YEAR-OLD STALLION SENI ILUSTRISIMO III (BY SENI INDIO) AFTER CLAIMING THE MEDIUM GOLD FOR PUREBRED PRE HORSES ON A SCORE OF 70.80%.

Medium Silver Victoria Ayling with her own Lawbrook Mia Fantasy, 61.10% Elementary Silver Catherine Halsall with her own Strinesdale Plum Pudding, 64.55% Novice Silver Catherine Halsall with her own Strinesdale Plum Pudding, 65.16% Preliminary Silver Linda Green with her own Mimbagos Malakai, 60.00% Bronze Hannah Reilly with her own Whalton Extravaganza, 70.51%

Prix St Gold Lucy Ellis with Anna Wilson’s Atinado VIII, 64.14% Georges Bronze Samantha Wuidart with her own Lince FS, 62.43% Advanced Gold Jane Green with her own Hacendado XVI, 70.51% Medium Silver Emily Burns with her own Lago Icon, 68.72% Bronze Samantha Wuidart with her own Lince FS, 67.17% Medium Gold Tania Grantham with Michelle van Meurs’ Seni Ilustrisimo III, 70.80% Silver Caroline Crowhurst with her own Jandalo CA III, 61.54% Bronze Becky Morrish with her own Armentero, 64.41% Elementary Gold Nick Lawson with Ruth Webb’s Pasajes I, 64.92% Silver Liz Hole with her own Artista de Vida, 68.16% Bronze Johan Redelinghuys with his own Lago Illustrious, 63.67% Novice Gold Charlotte Crocker-Westlake with her own Lago Malefi cent, 66.37% Silver Shirley Foley with her own Turco Santaco, 61.12% Bronze Penny Powell with her own Bondadoso AC, 58.95% Preliminary Gold Charlotte Crocker-Westlake with her own RompedorCandauII, 68.44%

Medium Bronze Claire Griffi ths with her own and Julie Maynard’s Brookhouse Rioja, 60.07% Elementary Gold Tracy Young with her own Sedosa CR, 57.79% Silver Claire Griffi ths with her own and Julie Maynard’s Brookhouse Rioja, 64.70% Novice Bronze Alia Cooper with her own Brecknock Killer Queen, 57.41% Preliminary Gold Molly Smockum Owen with Kate Revell’s Horus II, 68.44%

RIGHT: THE TOP-SCORING PART-BRED PRE WAS KATE REVELL’S NINE-YEAR-OLD CREMELLO GELDING, HORUS II, SKILFULLY PILOTED BY MOLLY SMOCKUM OWEN (21) TO WIN THE PRELIM GOLD.

LEFT: THE PROMISING YOUNG COMBINATION OF SOPHIE WALLACE (15) AND HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD LUSITANO, NADAL FC. SOPHIE PRESENTED A SUPER TEST WITH THIS YOUNG STALLION TO TOP THE PRELIM SILVER ON 71.20%.

RIGHT: SOPHIA LONGWORTH WITH RACHEL LONGWORTH’S WELSH SECTION B GWITHIAN PERCIVAL (BY THISTLEDOWN NIGHT SHIFT). THE PAIR NAILED THEIR PERFORMANCE TO EARN AN IMPRESSIVE 73.95% IN THE NOVICE SILVER.

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Prix St Silver Lynne Macleod with her own Hermes IV, 64.34%

Advanced Gold Justine Armitage with her own Invasor, 63.78% Medium Bronze Laura Smith with her own Almansor, 62.75% Medium Silver Laura Smith with her own Almansor, 64.55% Elementary Bronze Jacqui Ludlam with her own Xairel, 60.36% Preliminary Silver Sophie Wallace with her own Nadal FC, 71.20%

Medium Silver Gracie Catling with Julia Catling’s Dalyhill Rocker, 68.01% Bronze Michaela Collins with her own Brachie Bronnie Doodles, 66.39% Elementary Gold Leonie Brown with her own Wishaw Lord Nelson, 70.00% Silver Kate Hewson with her own Laithehill Flute, 67.86% Bronze Amelia Ward with her own Tireve What’s Wanted, 68.01% Novice Silver Sophia Longworth with Rachel Longworth’s Gwithian Percival, 73.95% Bronze Hannah Iddeson with her own Mynach Party Fun, 70.00% Preliminary Gold Kimberley Heginbotham with her own Machno Bond, 68.44% Silver Jane Rawden with her own Murthwaite Looks Promising, 70.77% Bronze Twm Cernyw with his own Trefl aeth Bendigeidfran, 70.51% Intro Bronze Emma Murch with her own Gwynfaes Gethin, 68.47%

Prix St Bronze Catherine Tristram with her own Lynwood Formula, 60.19%

Advanced Gold Catherine Tristram with her own Lynwood Formula, 65.12%

Medium Bronze Kate Oppenheimer with her own SOS Sealpoint, 65.51% Elementary Gold Dominique Mills with her own Trewithian Jay Two Oh, 60.44% Silver Kate Oppenheimer with her own SOS Sealpoint, 66.32% Bronze Nicki Mundy with her own Gerdinen Arian, 65.14% Novice Gold Victoria Bradford with Judith Loversidge’s Kenniford Flash Dancer, 68.62% Silver Zade Shakeshaft with her own Middlefarms World Classified, 67.09% Bronze Michelle Case with Suzanne Donald’s Gwibedog Huckleberry Finn, 67.74% Preliminary Gold Zade Shakeshaft with her own Middlefarms World Classified, 68.27% Silver Debbie Boylan-White with her own Kippure Samuel, 69.39% Bronze Harriet Leigh Woods with her own Maygem Little Boo, 68.87% Intro Bronze Joanne State with her own Roxley Kahlua Star, 68.58%

Medium Silver Stephanie Newman with her own Roman II, 61.76% Bronze Jo Freeman with her own Chalk II, 62.27% Elementary Silver Corinne McNamara with her own Hot Toddy VII, 65.73% Bronze Kirsty McColl with Jill Kidwell’s Sovereign, 65.88% Novice Silver Edward Cross with Patricia Appleby’s Sir Percy, 68.06% Bronze Zena Dewhurst with her own The Wizard of Oz, 68.38% Preliminary Gold Alys Matravers with Felicity Thorne’s SD Out of the Blue, 68.62% Silver Nicola Reeder with her own Double Denim, 62.75% Bronze Jennifer Goodman with her own Richmond, 66.55% Intro Bronze Kate Foster with her own Junior IV, 62.60%

LEFT: ALYS MATRAVERS FROM TAUNTON, PARTNERED BY FELICITY THORNE’S ATTRACTIVE FOUR-YEAR-OLD SD OUT OF THE BLUE, LANDED THE TRADITIONAL GYPSY COB (TGCA) PRELIM GOLD WITH 68.62%.

RIGHT: REBECCA PARSONAGE RODE AN ACCOMPLISHED TEST WITH HER 10-YEAR-OLD GELDING, WACTON BILLY, TO CLAIM THE MEDIUM BRONZE FOR PART-BRED TGCA. ABOVE: SHOWING-TURNED-DRESSAGE RIDER DEBBIE BOYLAN-WHITE AND HER PART-BRED CONNEMARA, KIPPURE SAMUEL, TOOK THE PART-BRED NATIVES PRELIM SILVER IN CONVINCING FASHION. “HE CAN BE TRICKY BUT HE WAS SO GOOD ON THE DAY, STAYED FOCUSED, AND WE HAD A FANTASTIC WEEKEND.”

Medium Silver Christine Hughes with her own Tia Maria II, 63.16% Bronze Rebecca Parsonage with her own Wacton Billy, 67.94% Elementary Silver Alys Matravers with her own Tiger Mazarati, 67.79% Novice Silver Helen Geddes with her own Her Ladyshipp, 67.82% Bronze Mia Cooper with her own Loughrea Prince, 65.00% Preliminary Bronze Helen Thomas with her own Fluffy, 66.21%