Judge decides Superior Choice a fitting winner

Two-year-old hails from Tannhill Stud

Lifting the overall hunter championship and eventual Cuddy championship was the two-year-old Superior Choice.

Owned by friends Pat and Tim Martin and Dorothy and Keith Walsh the Emperor Augustus two-year-old was purchased from his breeder the late Desmond Noctor as a foal from the Tannhill Stud, Co Wexford.

Standing reserve and overall supreme ridden hunter was Caithness rider James Munro with the small hunter winner Ebony King. Owned by Freda Newton from Inverness, the five-yearold is by the skewbald stallion Aughabeg Patch and out of the Connemara mare Glencarn Girl.

The sports horse championship went to Russell Skelton with Freda Newton’s three-year-old gelding Future King.

In reserve and going one better the final day to stand in-hand coloured champion was Alasdair Matheson with Freckleton Finesse.

This three-year-old skewbald filly is by the former Royal Highland Show champion Copilot and out of Freckleton Moneypenny.

Lifting the Welsh section B championship and reserve were two ponies owned and bred at the Waxwing Stud, Balgonar, Fife. Their champion was Waxwing Glamour, a yearling filly by Eyarth Beau Geste and out of Cwrtycadno Glian.

Reserve was Waxwing Penny Gold, a nine-year-old mare also by Eyart Beau Geste and out of Nillcroft Pleasure.

Champion of the mountain and moorland working hunter pony section was Gwen Rae’s Greenholme Emblem, a seven-year-old Fell stallion, ridden by Kirsty Aird.

The working hunter pony reserve champion was Perthshire-based Suzie England, whose daughter Amelia rode Rosshill Paddy to win the exceeding 143cm class.

The pony is a seven-year-old Connemara gelding and has qualified for the RIHS and placed British Eventing at Floors Castle and Belsay.

The ridden mountain and moorland reserve title went to Hayley Reynold with Bracklinn Jackpot.

Bred in Perthshire by Messrs Smith, the 10-year-old Fell stallion by the Royal Highland Show champion Carrock I’m Yer Man and out of Southolme Beauty has qualified for the Royal International.

Reserve in the mini mountain and moorland section and qualifying for HOYS was Emma Cowie from Turriff, with the first ridden pony Vean Night Flight, a seven-year-old Dartmoor by Springwater Nightfall, ridden by Hilary Cowie.

Coloured horses ridden reserve was Felicity Baker, from Cupar, with Alfie Moon II, a 14-year-old piebald gelding owned for six years.

The working native pony champion was the Queen’s Highland pony Balmoral Ulleam, shown by Lucy Fernie. The pony wore a pre-First World War pack saddle, converted to a deer saddle which is now being widely used on estates in Aberdeenshire.