March 2022

The British Show Pony Society has announced a new initiative to spot and nurture talented young riders in honour of supreme showman, Robert Oliver.   During the 2022, season members of the BSPS Council will be talent spotting young competitors in each of following categories: show ponies, show hunter ponies, working hunter ponies, heritage working […]

Two of our leading pony societies, the British Show Pony Society has and National Pony Society, have announced that they have joined forces to bring a new initiative promoting the Breeding of British Riding Ponies to the BSPS Summer Championships.   In selected classes, the highest placed mare will be entered into The Breeders Challenge, with

Kirsty Lockhart was delighted to finally see her own Ecclesbourne Discovery Bay [Kenny] make a comeback from injury under Kirsty’s younger sister, Milly, at the Wiltshire Spring Show. The Turberry Top Cat gelding is out of HOYS hack, Stanley Grange Eclipse, and was bred by Sarah and Jane Carey. He accompanied his mother when she

No one cleans your tack and boots better than she does. She’s also a magician with stained jodhs and mucky shirt-cuffs. Her right leg involuntarily flicks out behind her at every fence you jump. She once thought a breastplate was an early brassiere and Martin Gayle was poet, but now she’s got them stripped, cleaned,

Report by Beth Simons Images supplied by Emmpix and Ellena Thomas Miranda Hughes’ Towergate First Impression [Cracker] enjoyed a superb weekend of showing under Miranda’s daughter, Tabitha Hughes, 10, culminating in them taking the overall supreme championship. Tabitha and Cracker won the RIHS first ridden and mini championship en route to the supreme having already

The biggest threat to equestrianism in the western world; social licence to operate? Leading vet, Dr Jane Nixon MRCVS, Chair of The Showing Council and British Horse Foundation presented a fascinating and informative webinar titled: ‘The biggest threat to equestrianism in the western world; social licence to operate’, on the 17th March. Supported by SEIB

UK Ponies and Horses Spring Classic Show Onley Grounds, Warwickshire, 19-20 March 2022 Lucy Richardson’s five times HOYS mini mountain and moorland champion, Thistledown Van der Vaart [Charles] proved his might once again by standing supreme of show. He was ridden by Lucy’s youngest daughter, Penny Richardson. Penny and Charles won the mountain and moorland

Find out more about Strangles at SRUC’s free online event on Thursday 21st of April. The event aims to highlight the dangers of Strangles, a highly contagious and potentially lethal equine disease, and Strangles expert, Nic de Brauwere, will talk about the disease. It will also aim to promote the third national Strangles Awareness Week

Bacup based Hollie Butterworth was delighted to take the first HOYS ticket of the year and her very first qualification riding Acle Director [Adie]. Hollie and her husband, Michael, purchased five-year-old Shire, Adie, at the beginning of June last year and had him gelded before breaking him in to ride. “Initially, I had his dad,

“Whether you breed SP & SHP or Hack & Riding Horses – there is no doubt he will produce HOYS winners!”

The showing and wider equestrian world have come together in a superb initiative to take aid to the Ukrainian border. Louenna Hood was saddened to hear accounts of families walking into her Polish friend’s familial hometown destitute. Feeling that she wanted to do something to help, she placed an appeal on her Instagram account @nannylouenna