The present circuit’s most prolific heavyweight was the worthy winner of the 2024 RIHS Sport Horse Breeding of Nice Britain supreme hunter championship on the Royal Worldwide Horse Present (RIHS).
Rose Bailey’s Twinshock Warrior (Bernard) and his long-term producer and rider Jayne Ross, former supreme champions on the Horse of the 12 months Present (HOYS), initially impressed trip choose Lesley Whitehall and conformation choose Jane Holderness-Roddam within the morning’s heavyweight remaining.
“He was my first horse of the day,” Lesley stated. “For a giant horse he’s open although his shoulder, and he’s so free and light-weight; you can trip him on cotton. I may have sat on him all day. He’s additionally of such high quality and oozes class.”
Bernard, a Ricardo Z 12-year-old out of Chillrea, was as on-form and recent as ever in the principle ring championship. His party-piece — a blistering gallop down the grandstand — was provided on the contact of a button to Jayne and respective light-weight and middleweight trip judges, Simon Grieve and Jolley Smith.
Bernard final took this title in 2019, when stand-in rider Vicky Smith took his reins within the championship as Jayne had one other trip. He was part reserve in each 2022 and 2023. His different accolades embody the 2019 HOYS supreme and a number of different county and nationwide championship present titles.
“I get emotional at the most effective of occasions, however that was out of this world; Bernard was simply elegant at this time,” Jayne stated. “He’s essentially the most unbelievable horse to trip in a hoop like that. It’s so thrilling for him to win it once more. You by no means cease wanting it, particularly when you’ve received on this enviornment earlier than; it’s simply so particular.”
Bernard has been some of the constant present hunters of current occasions, having been based mostly with Jayne since he was a six-year-old. In his debut season in 2018, he completed reserve hunter champion at HOYS, cementing his connection’s perception in him.
When requested how she retains him so up for the sport, Jayne stated: “He hacks, he’s out within the area and he goes on the canter tracks. He is aware of what he’s doing so he doesn’t want education or drilling in any respect.”
Reserve within the 2024 RIHS supreme hunter championship fell to the profitable middleweight, Liz Prowting’s Bloomfield Eloquence, ridden by Loraine Homer. The Watermill Swatch 10-year-old is one other who has thrived on Hickstead soil during his profession, having received the middleweight spoils on earlier events. He’s additionally an RIHS women’ hunter champion and a multi-HOYS winner.
The second positioned heavyweight was Jill Day’s first-season five-year-old IJ Countryman (Robert Walker) who was heading to the ultimate after clinching the novice title on the Nice Yorkshire.
Craig Kiddier and Sue and Vicky Tennant’s reigning RIHS employee champion and reserve supreme horse Mulberry Lane, one other 2024 Nice Yorkshire champion, completed second within the middleweights.
The profitable light-weight was Liz Trembath and her daughter Charlotte Clarke’s Harbour Grasp, who Jayne piloted within the class however handed over to Charlotte for the championship. Charlotte and her eight-year-old returned to the ring in a while within the day to attain the women’ present hunter crown.
Second within the light-weight area was newbie home-producer Jane Collins and her personal San Miguel.
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