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A Note From Our Editor Dear Reader, When our last issue was published, we were just stepping out of winter and into our spring shows. Yet here we are, fresh from witnessing an extra-special Royal Windsor Horse Show for the Queen’s jubilee. As much as I love seeing young talented horses and ponies emerging from the shadows at winter and spring shows, it was wonderful to see seasoned campaigners return to the ring with all the power, grace, presence and exceptional manners that you would expect of show horses at the pinnacle of their careers. A few stand out: the inimitable record-breaking View Point, Forgelands Hyde Park and Bart being just three examples. Is it just me or does a brilliant show horse give you goose bumps?!
provide us with qualifiers and practice runs for our ‘opens’. Lots of us are feeling the pinch with rising living costs – fuel in particular – but if you can, please support these shows, and without stealing our columnist Vicky’s thunder right here, thank the organisers. We’ve also got a full report in this issue from the first SEIB Search for a Star qualifiers. It’s hard starting out and trying to step up, so I really do believe that this series along with the BSHA’s Rising Stars and the TSR’s Talent Spotting series – among others – are so important in helping enthusiastic new people get a leg up into affiliated competition. Likewise, I was enthused by the new championships that the BSPS have introduced to nurture young riders and young ponies already in affiliated classes.
I came close to a Windsor win last year with a second, but alas, I’ve only won Windsor once and it was a few years ago. This year, I managed a fourth. But just being there, in the ring and on a lovely pony seems special, so the wave of emotion that must accompany those ‘big wins’ must be really something. For those who landed them, I hope you are still riding Cloud Nine! It’s all very well pontificating about the wonder of Windsor, but we all must remember that our societies and their area associations are also working extremely hard to provide excellent events for us. A few have seen a steep decline in entries this year and that is worrying; their shows are a vital resource for emerging young riders, horses and ponies, and
Talking of youngsters previously nurtured into competitive brilliance through showing, weren’t Laura Collett and London 52 superb at Badminton?! It just goes to show how important it is we support and encourage the many super children we have in our showing classes. Before I go, we have two interviews in this issue – one with Jo Jack and one with Kitty Boddily and Jill Williams, and we shine a light on a third individual’s contribution to showing. Without giving too much away, I’d like to take the opportunity here to wish Norwood White the happiest of 90th birthdays! (Equinepix)
- Beth
MEET OUR COVER STAR ON PAGE 42 Sarah Field’s Murvey George (Real Time Imaging)
Contents 24
Meet the producer: Jo Jack
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The NPS Spring Festival
32 Exclusive insights with the HOYS Judges 45
The BSPS championships
47 Bumper report from Royal Windsor Horse Show 80 Lap of Honour 90
Stud stories: behind the scenes at Glebedale Stud
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Front cover: Bea Bailye-Hawkins, 11, and her uber versatile Precious Gem [Star]
Editorial: Beth Simons
beth.simons@showingworldonline.co.uk
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SHOWING IRISH PONY
NEWS MAY 2022
SOCIETY
The Irish Pony Society would like to thank Showing World for the opportunity to update its readers on pony showing in Ireland.
The IPS would like to congratulate all members who competed so successfully at the Northern Ireland Festival, with special mention to Aoibhinn Ruanne riding Clonad Rose and Isla Coad riding Frosthill Jackaroo who picked up their working hunter golden tickets to HOYS. Well done girls! Once NIF was finished all focus shifted to the Irish Pony Society Spring Show which played host to R.I.H.S working hunter and coloured ridden pony and horse qualifiers. With top class competition throughout the day. Those lucky few who qualified for R.I.H.S are already busy making plans for their trip across the water. We cannot wait to see how they get on. After a successful Spring Show all focus has now shifted to preparation for the Summer Championships taking place on the 3rd and 4th of August at a new venue for the IPS, Necarne Castle, Irvinestown Co. Fermanagh. This promises to be a spectacular two days of showing with plenty of
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Shows are well underway all over the country, with closing dates coming thick and fast. Jess is keeping our Facebook platform current with closing dates for shows popping up each week. If you have not yet followed us on social media, please do. We recently had a great clinic at Merrist Wood with Jayne Ross and Mathew Lawrence, our thanks go to them for taking the time to help the association. We get asked all the time about clinics, and we will do more. It’s difficult finding venues and times to do these and of course getting instructors to help when everyone is so busy, but we will try a do a few more later in the year. Our Accredited Trainers have their own clinics, and these do appear on our show dates list on our website with booking details, and we also advertise these through social media. The Rising Star classes are taking off, with many shows around the country taking qualifiers, so if you are reading this and have never been a member of the BSHA but have a suitable, hack, riding horse, cob, hunter or racehorse, why not give it a go and enter a class near you? The top two in each section receive a rosette and a qualification to the final at the National Championships in September at Arena UK. Ian Darcy and I had a recent visit to Arena UK and have some great new ideas for the venue – something for everyone – so we will be beavering away over the next few months getting our schedule and packages together. A date for the diary: NPS Area 20’s Amateur/Novice Day, 26th June. Schedule and sponsorship packages will be out soon for the BSHA National Championship show. It was the ‘must enter’ show of last season, so make sure it’s in the diary for 8-10th September at Arena UK. Have a great summer!
additions to the schedule for 2022. The Schedule includes HOYS Qualifiers for mountain and moorland working hunter ponies, junior working hunter ponies, the Price Family Supreme in hand final, the small, lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight show hunters and ridden Connemaras. The full schedule and details will be available shortly. In other news the new IPS Chairperson Clive Johnston is working hard with the council to add popular classes to the IPS showing schedule notably included now are in-hand Connemara classes for breeding and youngstock as our native pony it will be fantastic to see them represented at our Summer Championships. Spotlight: Ned Kelly riding his Mum’s Tinnecarrig Milo and Rowdown Archer picked up two R.I.H.S qualifying spots in the 133cm and 143cm Working Hunter categories. They are definitely partnerships worth keeping an eye on for the rest of season.
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BREEDERS CHALLENGE BSPS AND NPS JOIN FORCES TO SET BREEDERS CHALLENGE Two of our leading pony societies, the British Show Pony Society has and National Pony Society, have announced that they have joined forces to bring a new initiative promoting the Breeding of British Riding Ponies to the BSPS Summer Championships. In selected classes, the highest placed mare will be entered into The Breeders Challenge, with the champion winning a stallion premium covering by Llanarth Top Cat, kindly sponsored by Jerome Harforth. The reserve champion will receive a £500 stallion premium voucher sponsored by the National Pony Society. The stallion premiums offered through the challenge will remain with the pony. It is hope that this will encourage owners to breed from their mares when they retire from the show ring. Edward Young, BSPS Council member said, “We are pleased to be working in partnership with the NPS, to promote the breeding of riding ponies, support existing breeders, and hopefully, encourage
new breeders of the future”. Chair NPS Stud Book Committee Chair, Anneli Jones said: “We are also keen to help riders get a good understanding of how their pony is bred and an appreciation for reputable, responsible breeders is key to this. To this end, the NPS has been working with BSPS to identify ways to encourage this. We are pleased that breeders will be invited to showcase their studs at the BSPS Summer Championship show and the Stud Book Committee is also looking to identify other events to showcase the qualities of the breed”. This is an exciting initiative that is much needed to drive the promotion of the breed, especially within the younger generation. For more information on the National Pony Society, visit: https://www.nationalponysociety.com For more information on the British Show Pony Society, visit: BSPS :: The British Show Pony Society