Scottish Welsh Pony and Cob Association

Show Reports

Winter Show 2009

By Dorothy Dawson




At the SWPCA Winter Show, Ingliston EC., supreme ridden honours were captured by Carenza Dickens’ Cedar Farm Top Man (Burstye Poseidon/ Cedar Farm Red Ribbons), which had been reserve supreme at the  Festival of Champions, SNEC. The fourteen year old gelding was not only the members’ ridden champion, but also overall partbred champion of the show.  Mary Nicoll’s Elvet Challenger, a section B stallion by Defaelog Luke, was reserve supreme, shown by Zoe Martelle Nicoll. He had been an orphan foal, bred by Kevin and Jane Stewart near Durham, and was a medal winner in 2008, shown by Charlie Knight.

Challenger was novice ridden champion, with the bay cob gelding  Skelwith Rocket’s Flash Dance, shown by Lauren Aitchison, a member of  West Perthshire Pony Club, reserve. He was also reserve to Laura Keay’s section C gelding Coedeneirin Reward, in the open ridden section. Reward had been overall ridden champion at the SWPCA Spring 
Show. It was in the worker ring that Flash Dance really excelled, scooping overall honours after winning the open section from Sarah Gemmell’s Grange Homeward Sparrow. The novice champion, Gordon Bowden’s Machno Showtime, ridden by Emma Young, was reserve overall. 
Sixteen year old Emma is a member of East Lothian Pony Club. Showtime, bred by Meirion Jones at Penmachno, Conwy, has been a champion show jumper and third overall in the dressage section of the British Equine Federation young pony evaluations.  He is a son of the Welsh cob Carregcoch Bleddyn.

Eight year old Georgina Quinian rode Shona Thomson’s section A gelding Cromagtir  Dylan into reserve place amongst the members’ entries after winning the first ridden class.  The mini champion was the leading  rein pony Ceannaiteach Marco, with six year old Jamie McLaughlan aboard, and the reserve was the first ridden winner, Julie Grant’s  
Llanarw Betsan. Members of Sunart & District Pony Club headed the young handlers, with Louise Ferguson, showing Durris Fair Wind, winning the championship, and Eva McMenemy, with Wilcrick Sandstorm, reserve.

RhydymeirchTwysog Swallow, ridden by Irene McKelvey, won the BHS 2007 Novice 27 dressage contest, with Gladys Dale’s cob Scole Pretty Maid standing top of the large entry in the BHS 2006 Prelim 13 class.

Champion of the mixed mountain and moorland in-hand entry, as well as reserve in the members in-hand section and in the Welsh yearling championship, was Eleanor Crate’s Skellorn Grafitti (Glansevin Grafitti/ Skellorn Ebony Rose), a June-born yearling colt which had been second at the Royal Highland. Reserve amongst the native ponies was Eleanor’s partbred Penmaric Beginagain, by Passford Sunnay Boy. 

 

The members’ in-hand title went to Shona Thomson’s Synod Raimunda, a medal winning mare which had been champion both in-hand and ridden.  She was also the adult in-hand champion with Shona’s cob stallion Pennal The Great, reserve.

After a break of thirteen years, during which they have been concentrating on section B ponies, the Davdor Stud showed a chestnut roan section A colt Davdor Spring Majik, produced by Charlie Cousens, to be foal champion and supreme youngstock champion. He is by Blackhill Picalo and out of a mare bought at Fayre Oaks, Pinfold Spring Melody, which, although grey herself, is by the chestnut stallion Ringstead Major. The reserve youngstock title was won by Gail Rooney’s Oakmill Hesta at her first show. This section C filly is a daughter of Oakmill Lysander (great grandson of Persie Renown) and out of Moorcroft The Goddess, by Synod The Messiah. The yearling champion was Lesley and Kevin Moy’s Cromagtir Daman ( Flydon Hiwmor/ Cromagtir Don).

 

 


 

 

 

 

Winter Show photos by Peter Page Photography

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