New Milton Equestrian Supplement Spring-Summer 2019

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EQUESTRIAN ∙ Spring/Summer 2019

EQUESTRIAN ∙ Spring/Summer 2019

by Charlotte Baker

Breed society awards for thriving Forest-run mares

Howen Level Flight

The Breamore Show returns

Foxhills Tinkerbell

After a 19-year hiatus, The Breamore Show is returning to the New Forest equestrian calendar.

Photo credit: Suzanne Kempe

 FULL RESULTS Dale Memorial Cup overall Champion and Nancy Deed Cup (Mike Lovell’s area): Foxhills Tinkerbelle (Mrs Pat Dunning) Reserve Champion and Olga Golby Cup (Peter Rix’s area): Howen Level Flight (Mr Eric Dovey and Julia Barrett)

This year’s New Forest Pony Breeding and Cattle Society’s Forest- fed competition saw strong entries, despite a year of turbulent weather.

The Dale Memorial Cup for the overall champion went to Pat Dunning’s Foxhills Tinkerbelle, a bay mare by Skywalker, out of Foxhills Total Eclipse. The reserve award went to Eric Dovey and Julia Barrett’s Howen Level Flight. The competition recognises Forest-run mares in good condition who spend 11

months of the year running the open Forest, and also takes into account con rmation and type. Breed society chair Suzanne Kempe told A&T: “The judges found most ponies looking very well, especially some of the mares that were also obviously in-foal. The overall standard was very good.”

Keppel Pulteny Cup (Best Young Commoner’s mare): Ruby Xii (Mr Daniel Drodge) Broxmore Cup (Best maiden mare): Deerleap Foxlove (Mrs Marion Ingram)

Pinkney Cup (Best mare that foaled in the previous year): Foxhills Footloose (Mrs Pat Dunning) Golding Cup (Best mare north of the A31): Rushmoor Dragon y (Messrs R&J Stride)

Peckham Cup (Robert Maton’s area): Foxhills Hazelnut (Mrs Clare Bates) Bessant Cup (Andrew Napthine’s area): Miss E Stride and Mrs Charlotte Lines

Horse of the month

More national success for NRFC teams

Organiser Andrea Dymott told the A&T that the event was back by popular demand: “My husband and I decided to stop running the show in 2000 – I was in need of a hip replacement and decided I couldn’t do it anymore. “But we hadn’t appreciated how well-liked the show was, and every year I’ve been badgered to bring it back. Everybody is so delighted that we’re doing it again and it’s gone from there really.” Hosted on Mr and Mrs Hulse’s Breamore Estate on June 30th, the event will feature 94 classes spread over seven rings. This revival of the show will be in aid of the Sarah Kinsley Fund, a local charity that helps provide services and equipment to sick and injured children who cannot be helped by the NHS. Examples of the help they provide includes specialist wheelchairs and driving lessons for parents to take their children to hospital appointments. The show is still open to anyone who would be interested in offering sponsorship, as well as volunteers to help on the day. Anyone interested in getting in involved should email Andrea Dymott – andreadymott@hotmail.com. The schedule is out now and can be downloaded from www.nfed.co.uk

Ebony has literally been her rock and helped her get through every day

This month, Jayne Simmons

The end of March saw New Forest Riding Club make a winning visit to the British Riding Clubs Novice Winter Championships in Lincolnshire.

The junior team (pictured) of Imogen Reynolds, Eleanor Jenkins, Matteo Lallo and Callum Robertson won the Novice Dressage competition on a team score of 9. Matteo Lallo also won the Grassroots Intro class on Morrigan Bernardino. Individual senior Kerry Tyrell and Himoons Spellbound won the overall Novice competition, while the team came fth. Teams from NFRC and the New Forest Pony Enthusiast’s Club will be heading up to the Intermediate Winter Championships at Bury Farm this weekend, with teams entered in both dressage and show jumping sections.

This is our rehab pony Ebony who sadly had 8 owners before she was 6 because she was “quirky”. My daughter fell in love with her instantly and they are a match made in heaven — their bond is phenomenal. Amelia has cerebral palsy and kidney failure and Ebony has literally been her rock and helped her get through every day, which has been really tough. Together they have won show accumulators, and recently come second in their rst ever para dressage test. nominates her family’s pony Ebony…

Everybody is so delighted that we’re doing it again.

The winning junior team at the prize giving ceremony

Ebony and Amelia at a recent competition

Photos supplied by Andrea Dymott

Photo credit: British Riding Clubs