Harbro Reigns In Young Rider Ambassadors

Equine nutrition specialist Harbro Ltd has announced the winners from its first ever Young Riders Competition, who will take up the place as brand ambassadors for the next twelve months. The competition saw over fifty entrants from Shetland to the Scottish Borders enter from a range of disciplines including eventing, show jumping and dressage.

A shortlist from the entries were selected by a panel of judges including equestrian expert and Olympic medallist Ian Stark, OBE, and Dr Vicki Glasgow, Harbro’s Equine Nutritionist, before a final public vote on Facebook to select two winners, one from the North and one from the South of Scotland. The finalists with the most combined total likes and shares on their post uploaded to Facebook won the heat in their region.

There was overwhelming support for all the finalists, resulting in winners Leigh-Ann Allan (North) and Rosa Onslow (South).

Leigh-Ann, 21 from Perthshire competes in eventing at BE100 but her aspiration is to progress to novice with her overall aim to compete at a 1* level at Blair Castle International Horse Trials.

Rosa, 18 from Hawick is already achieving great things in eventing she was longlisted for GB Junior Team 2016 and has will be competing in her first advance and 3* competitions in the coming weeks but her aspiration is to progress to the Olympics for eventing and to gain a place on GB teams.

The prizes will give these young riders who are brimming with talent some vital support, to help with the cost of feed for a year, clothing and merchandise, hospitality tickets to the Royal Highland Show 2018 and exceptional advice from Harbro Equine Nutritionist Dr Vicki Glasgow. Managing nutrition and care is a vital aspect of a horse’s performance and wellbeing, and this input will help establish an appropriate feeding regime.

Talking about the result, Rebecca Ingram Marketing Manager at Harbro commented “We are really pleased with the response to this year’s competition and the standard of entries was exceptional. We are delighted that we now have the opportunity to support two young riders as they progress within the sport and look forward to working with them both over the coming year. We would also like to thank all the entrants and hope to run a similar initiative in 2018/19”

For further information about the winners please see www.harbro.co.uk

For further information on the new range of horse feed and nutrition see www.harbro.co.uk/what-we-do/ species/equine/