2024 Enablelink RIHS present hunter pony championship

Final 12 months’s Royal Worldwide (RIHS) and Horse of the 12 months Present (HOYS) runner-up got here to the fore at Hickstead this 12 months to raise the 2024 Enablelink RIHS present hunter pony championship, regardless of being in solely his second ridden season.

The Gribbin Household’s six-year-old 153cm campaigner Rosscon Copycat was the consummate skilled within the Worldwide Enviornment championship, guided all the way in which by his long-term rider Reise Shakespeare. The pair, who’re based mostly with Adam Forster and David Jinks in Cheshire, cemented their efficiency with a easy but highly effective gallop.

They have been referred to as into the highest spot forward of the profitable 143cm mixture, Ella Eynon and her mom Rebecca Faulkner’s Stretcholt Roulette, this 12 months’s Royal Cheshire hunter pony champion and a former RIHS and HOYS class victor.

“We preferred our champion as quickly as he got here into the ring; he immediately stated ‘have a look at me’,” stated conformation decide Anthea Derby. “Our reserve was gorgeous, too. It was a tough alternative. We needed to look forward to the championship to see who was actually going to glitter the perfect, however what a stunning alternative we had. We have been so impressed with the winners we had; all very true varieties.”

Trip decide Anne Leaver agreed: “We preferred each one in every of our championship ponies. Our champion was a brilliant sort and a correct hunter pony with a leg at every nook, however nonetheless with high quality. He would have been your scaled down middleweight, and our reserve a scaled down light-weight with an equal quantity of high quality.”

Copycat is by thoroughbred stallion Royal Storm out of Connemara Chilham Quest. Earlier this 12 months, he offered Reise along with his first-ever Royal Windsor championship title and on his outing forward of the RIHS, he gained the £1000 pony supreme spoils at North of England summer time present.

Becoming a member of within the 2024 Enablelink RIHS present hunter pony championship have been the second positioned 143cm and 153cm combos, Romanno Spot Of Distinction (Maisie Durose) and Grasp Jack (Hollie Mcgauley).

The 133cm representatives have been courses winners Sancarlo (Isabella Walker) and Parkhill Di Maria (Macie Donaldson), whereas prime two within the 122cm class have been Thistledown Galaxy (Rocco Lindsay) and Isley Walton Gold (Jodie McKay).

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