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Barker and French prove perfect match
As well as the excitement of the main event at the weekend, Bramham's numerous showing, young horse and show-jumping classes kept the crowds around the East Arena, which were often four or five deep, enthralled, especially the Mix and Match on Sunday.
This gave event rider Piggy French and Northallerton show-jumper Paul Barker victory for a fourth time.
In the showing classes, there were wins for Robert Walker (lightweight and middleweight), Loraine Homer (heavyweight), Ginny Rose (novice working hunter) and T Fairburn (open working hunter).
In the Trot2.com Eventing Breeding and Young Stock Classes the winning owners were Joanne and William Moran (brood mare); Sue Browne and Nicola Baguley (foal); Dr J Crossley (yearling); Mrs K Barley (two-year-old) and Joanne and William Moran (three-year-old).
The Burghley Dubarry Young Event Horse classes were won by Katherine Heslop and Bee Victorious (four-year-olds) and Willa Newton with San Remo II (five-year-olds).
Both will go to the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in September for the championship with five others who qualified at Bramham.
Robert Whitaker was the winner of the final event of the show, the Wetherby Skip Hire Grand Prix, taking home 1,000 with a great performance against the clock from Udodv.
Other show-jumping winners included: N Smith riding Keol Kaiser in the Thorpe Park B & C competition; Julie Andrews and Conora in the HOYS Grade C Championship; William Whitaker in The Bramham Classic riding Clark 12; William Funnell in the Bramham Six Bar with Beowulf; M Ken and Sonora in the Quantum Saddles Accumulator and Tracy Newman riding Handles Cosmos in The Suregrow UK 1.3m Open.
Yorkshire Dartmoor pony breeders have been in good form recently, starting with Madge and Paul Taylor from Cawood, who clinched the Dartmoor Championship at NPS Area 5, North West Championships, Formby.
They were showing their yearling colt Langfield Kaisa by Pumphill Bennet out of Langfield Beth, which also took the small section of Glyn Greenwood Championship for PUK Championships; KiImannan Silver Medal and a ticket in the British Isles Championship after finishing second reserve in the qualifier.
Kaisa at NPS Area 4 Show, Richmond, took the overall mountain and moorland championship and qualified for the Roseberry Northern Breeders' Championship to be held at NPA Area 4 finals, Harrogate in August.
The Taylors' former pony Uppacott Majosse, ridden by Laura Tansy-Nicholson from Halifax and produced by Janet and Sarah Ambler, took the first ridden tickets for the Royal International and mini tricolour.
Nicola and Philip Tyler from Pickhill, Thirsk, with the three-year-old filly Springwater Tatyana by Moortown Countryman out of Springwater Symphony, led by Katy Tyler, took the star rosette and overall championship besides the best Dartmoor clinching the Joan Montgomery Challenge Cup at the Royal Bath & West Show.
Tatyana also took reserve championship at the North West Championships after winning the two-to-three-year-old section.
Sarah Challinor won the NPS Mountain & Moorland Working Hunter Horse of the Year qualifier and the section championship besides second reserve in the supreme ridden. Sarah was riding the six-year-old stallion Pumphill Buckthorn by Stonehealed Vulcan out of 1996 Horse of the Year in Hand Champion Pumphill Belladonna, bred by David Hinde and owned by Sue Hughes.
Jackie Stockdale, from Easingwold, is delighted with her eight-year-old spotted grey mare Micklehill Aspara by Mistlethrush out of Micklehill Araminta ridden by Harriet Etchells, who took the Mountain & Moorland Working Hunter ticket at NPA Area 4 Spring Show.
She will make her debut at the Royal International after including a double win at the Ponies UK Winter Championships. Harriet also had a double win with Jackie's other pony Denecroft Algeiba Star.
Charlotte Blythman, from Stokesley, clinched her international ticket in the first ridden at BSPS Area 3A Show, riding the seven-year-old gelding Newoak Storyteller, bred by Joyce and Jacky Newberry out of the mare Jurstonparke Eliza.
Alice McCullagh, from Great Smeaton, Northallerton has qualified for the Ponies UK Burghley Event Pony Finals to be held during Burghley Horse Trials on September 6 after finishing second in the qualifier held at Greenlands, Carlisle.
She was riding the seven-year-old Connemara gelding Tully Oisin by Earl of Castle French which has qualified for working hunter finals at BSPS Area 4A, Newark and was third in HOY qualifier at NPA Area 5.
Sarah Ambler, from Halifax, took her Horse of the Year ticket in the coloured section at the NPS Area 5, Formby riding her 11-year-old Endeavour by Ed King.
Danielle Burnip, from Stokesley, will be trying to retain her title in the 122cm show hunter at HOYS with Wingland Make Believe after taking her ticket at NPS Area 5.
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