Yorkshire Sport Horse, the organisation which promotes and encourages the breeding of quality competition horses, held its annual awards presentation, which covered all disciplines including showing, eventing, show-jumping and point-to-pointing, and prizes went to:



Yorkshire Sports Horse trophy for the best Yorkshire-bred sports horse: Miss Rosemary Search with Opposition Buzz; reserve: Mr and Mrs R G Brader with Duchess Account.

In the main event at Burghley, Opposition Buzz stormed round the cross-country course and gained one of only two clear rounds in the show-jumping phase, resulting in him moving up the leaderboard to finish fifth.

This horse, bred by Rosemary Search, has been ridden for the past four years by Nicola Wilson.

Earlier in the season he was also placed seventh at Badminton, in addition to a seventh placing at Aachen and a second at Gatcombe.

These results brought him to the attention of the Olympic selectors and he was on the reserve list for Beijing.

In the point-to-point field, one Yorkshire-bred horse stood out, Duchess Account, home-bred by Mr and Mrs R G Brader. The 11 -year-old mare comes from an illustrious family developed by the Brader family over many years.

In her fifth season point-to-pointing, Duchess Account won three times and finished second once out of four runs. She won two Ladies Opens and the prestigious Grimthorpe Cup run over four miles and one furlong at Whitwell on the Hill. She has now been retired to stud and is in foal to Bollin Eric.



Yorkshire Sports Horse trophy for the best Yorkshire-bred ridden hunter: Mrs Jean Bartle with State Policy; reserve: Mr and Mrs Michael Grubb with Lambwath Classic Moment.

The ridden hunter classes at the Great Yorkshire Show are always well supported, and this year was no exception. Jean Bartle's home-bred State Policy, ridden and produced by Alwyn Fradley, won a strong class of small hunters.

That success continued a season that began with wins at the BSPS winter championships, Leicester County, Ponies UK, Staffs County and the Deanwater £1,000 prize for the supreme ridden horse at the North of England Show at Osbaldeston.

A Yorkshire-bred small hunter, Lambwath Classic Moment bred by Mr and Mrs Michael Grubb, owned by Beaverfast Ltd and ridden by Joe Jenkins, triumphed at the National Hunter Show, having previously won at Lincoln and Royal Welsh. He finished the season by taking third in his class at the Horse of the Year Show.



n The Yorkshire Sports Horse breeders' championships: Champion foal: Mrs Joyce Houseman's Eastern Index; reserve: Mr and Mrs Michael Grubb's Lambwath Game Fair. Champion Youngstock: Mrs Sheila Fenwick's Baydale Venus; reserve Mrs Heather Ketley's Kirkmoor Mountain View.

At the Yorkshire Sports Horse show, Joyce Houseman's colt foal Eastern Index won the small hunter foal class and the overall hunter foal championship, before claiming the sports horse foal class.

Eastern Index went on to win the small hunter foal class and the reserve championship at Lincoln.

Eastern Index's dam the Loch Pearl brood mare Captain Caroline was second in her hunter brood mare class and first in the sports horse brood mare class. Captain Caroline was also champion brood mare at Lincoln. More successes followed at Malton, Ryedale and Sutton and Huby shows.

Sheila Fenwick's part-bred Cleveland Baydale Venus was placed in the hunter filly class at the Great Yorkshire as well as gaining successes in hunter breeding and sports horse classes during the season.

In the Cleveland Bay classes at the Great Yorkshire, Heather Ketley had success with both pure-bred and part-bred Clevelands with her Kirkmoor Mountain View winning the part-bred class.

Other highlights of the season included Bramham's Event Horse Breeding classes in which Hazel Bramley's bay yearling Firelight, by Daws Firebird out of Liberty Light, claimed the yearling class and the overall championship.

From the same stable, Triple Diamond, a chestnut colt foal by Coolcorran Cool Diamond out of Triple Echo, won the foal class before claiming a win and reserve championship in the part-bred section at the Irish Draught show. Lambwath Dalesman won the trophy for the best Yorkshire-bred in-hand horse.

Jane Moore enjoyed a spectacular Great Yorkshire.

Her Jemoon High Society won the foal class for the small hunter broodmare whilst her dam Poppy's Moon was second.

Jane's Jemoon Sea Pearl claimed the Yorkshire Brood Mare Perpetual Challenge trophy for the best Yorkshire-bred hunter brood mare in
the show, whilst Sea Pearl's
filly foal Jemoon Private Dancer was champion filly foal
and overall champion hunter foal.