Rider books her place at famous horse show
Jamboree helps polio cause
AHORSE rider with big ambitions has earned a place in a prestigious riding competition.
Jennifer Levis, from Mottram St Andrew, has earned a place at the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) with her horse Jazz.
And it was double celebrations for Jennifer, who won the same week she passed her first year of training to become a veterinary nurse.
Jennifer, who earned her place after winning the SEIB Insurance Brokers Search for a Star qualifier, said: “If someone had said to me beforehand that I would qualify, I would have laughed and told them that there was no way that would happen.
“Jazz only came back into work in February after an injury, so I took him to Vale View just to see how we would do.”
Jennifer has owned Jazz since he was two weeks old.
She said: “Mum and I had always wanted a horse by Aimbry Chester and came across Jazz in the field when we were looking for a new horse for me. Nothing had caught our eye so we went to End House Stud. That’s when we saw him floating across the field next to his mum and we instantly knew he was the foal we wanted, even though we were actually looking three-year-old.”
Referring to her latest win, she said: “I would have been happy with him just behaving and giving me and the judge a good ride. It’s the first time I’ve done a ridden show since I was on the lead-rein!
“Jazz means the world to me and he has helped me with my confidence over the years, so I felt that he deserved to have a chance of going to HOYS.”
Jennifer has just completed her first year of a vet nursing course at the Royal Veterinary College, London.
The Horse of the Year Show, which is one of the longest running horse shows in history, takes place in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, and runs from October 4-8. for a A MUSICAL jamboree has helped raise almost £2,000 towards a global mission to eradicate polio.
The Rotary Club of Macclesfield Castle held a fundraising event at Gawsworth Hall, with a cream tea and performance from the Houghton Weavers.
Rotarian Tony Keeley said: “The owners of the Hall, the Richards family, had been very supportive from the day when the club first approached them through to the day itself which started with a cream tea in their Tea Room with ingredients freely donated by Wilkins, Typhoo, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, and Smith’s Dairy.
“In the evening all visitors had tickets for an entertaining concert by the Houghton Weavers.”
Polio remains endemic in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, and until poliovirus transmission is interrupted, all countries remain at risk of importation of polio.
The proceeds from the jamboree will be added to the international Global Polio Eradication Initiative which is a public-private partnership led by national governments with five core partners – the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide.”
The evening raised £573, which will be doubled thanks to support from the Gates Foundation.