Drummacy is veteran star of Yorkshire 'Oscars' show

The organisation's equine equivalent of the Oscars were presented to breeders whose horses have performed exceptionally well this year.

Highlights included the Great Yorkshire Show which was memorable in many ways but particularly for Kath Barley and her 21-year-old mare, Drummacy.

The mare won the Lightweight Hunter Broodmare class against much younger opposition and went on to claim the championship and the best Yorkshire-bred broodmare award.

Drummacy won the hunter foal championship at the Great Yorkshire in 1989 and her filly foal, Drummatic, won its class and the foal championship this year.

In the Hunter Youngstock

two-year-old classes, Sue Cowgill's Hawlmark Classic Twilight won the filly class and the gelding class was won by Karen Hill's Hillcocks Flying High, which went on to win the overall championship.

Flying High's dam, Hillcocks Millie, has now produced three Great Yorkshire in-hand hunter champions.

Yorkshire breeders made their presence felt at the Yorkshire Sport Horse summer show.

Jane Moore's Poppy's Moon won the Small Hunter broodmare and Sports Horse broodmare classes, going on to take the

best Yorkshire bred and

in-hand Sports Horse championships.

Hazel Bramley's Folklaw was the best over 15.2h Hunter broodmare with her foal, Double Diamond, also winning its class.

The winners of the yearling, two-year-old and three-year-old in-hand hunter classes were all bred in Yorkshire – Michael and Geryl Grubb's Lambwath Wordsworth; Nigel and Sue Cowgill's Hawlmark Classic Twilight and Jean Leighton's Lowmoor Showtime.

Hawlmark Classic Twilight also took the hunter youngstock championship and Kath Barley's filly by Classic out of Drummer's Dream was the best three-year-old sports horse and reserve champion in-hand sports horse.

Bramham's Event Horse breeding classes are always hotly contested and this year was no exception.

Katie Newton's Yorkshire-bred Bucks Fizz won the brood mare class and the overall championship.

Kath Barley also won here with her three-year-old filly.

Eastern Index, bred by Joyce Houseman and owned and produced by Delwin Evans and Paul Jarrett from Wales, had a brilliant season, claiming championships at the Newark and Nottinghamshire, Royal Welsh, Osbaldeston and Royal, Bath and West shows.

He completed the season

with a championship in the Sports Horse Section at the National Hunter Show and

was placed third in the Cuddy final at the Horse of the Year Show.

In the showjumping arena, Nicola Sheard's Just Call me Max has made the transition up to 1.40 classes and only just missed out on the Foxhunter final at the Horse of the Year Show.

Yorkshire-bred eventers have been doing well at every level of the sport, among them being Rosemary Search's well-known "Bee" family.

Bee Diplomatic has gained 83 points this season at Advanced three-star level and the

Bees Knees is following closely behind.

But the head of the family is definitely Opposition Buzz, ridden by Nicola Wilson, the holder of a World Equestrian Games team gold medal.

Award winners:

Yorkshire Sport Horse trophy for the Best Yorkshire-bred Show Horse: Jane Moore with Jemoon Star Catcher. Reserve: Frances Bullock with Lowmoor Playboy.

The Yorkshire Sport Horse trophy for the Best Yorkshire-bred Sport Horse: Rosemary Search with Opposition Buzz. Reserve: Mr Stoker with Randi's Gold.

Best Yorkshire-bred Horse in the Burghley Young Event Horse finals: Alyse Clancey with On Stage.

Jemoon Trophy for the foal gaining the most points at qualifying shows: Hazel Bramley with First Term. Joint reserve: Hazel Bramley with Double Diamond and Mrs J Scott with Loyal Toast.

East Yorkshire Breeders' Champion perpetual trophy for the best one, two or three-year-old gaining the most points in qualifying shows: Michael Grubb with Lambwath Wordsworth. Joint reserve: Hazel Bramley with Diamond Design and Michael Grubb's Lambwath Game Fair.

Yorkshire Sport Horse best Yorkshire-bred in-hand trophy at the summer show: Jane Moore with Poppy's Moon.

Yorkshire Sport Horse best Yorkshire-bred Broodmare at the Great Yorkshire Show: Kath Barley with Drummacy.