A top week of showing kicked off in style at the Royal Interantional Horse Show at Hickstead, with stalwart Jayne Ross claiming a hat-trick of rosettes.
Jayne’s Hunter Glory
Jayne Ross was “seriously over the moon” on Thursday as she took not one, but three titles over the course of the day, including two in the Les and Nadia Edgar Hunter Championships.
First she took the Light Weight Hunter Championship with Mrs D Stennett’s bay mare, Time 2 Reflect. She then took the Heavy Weight title with Bloomfield Excelsior. Her Success then continued in Jackson fencing ring with a win in the Ladies Hunter ChampionshipwithHello Dolly owned by Mrs D stennett.
“They were so amazing those mares. They’re both really smiley mares, and are both absolutely at the top of their game and they really gave it their all today,” said Jayne.
Jayne rode Time 2 Reflect in the Hunter Supreme in the International Arena. Her impressive gallop and beautiful go round all edged her towards the prestigious Hunter Supreme title.
Reserve Hunter Supreme went to the Middle Weight winner Oathill Take the Biscuit, owned by Dawn Weston and ridden by Danielle Heath. Hovis, as he is known in the stable, is no stranger to the International Arena at Hickstead. He has taken the Middle Weight title three times in a row here, as well as many other titles around the country.
Big win for Brogan
Top show rider Brogan Taverner claimed one of biggest wins of her career on Friday whe she claimed the Supreme Riding Horse title with High Treason.
Brogan started the day off in second when Maker’s Royal Mist was pipped to the post by Simon Charlesworth in the Saracen Horse Feeds Small Riding Horse Championship who took the class withJill Marsden’s elegant Carrhouse Boston Legal.
But team Harvey’s day got better as Brogan came out on top in the Saracen Horse Feed’s Large Riding Horse title with Lisa Hall’s High Treason, with Jayne Ross coming second in the Large Riding Horse with Rosettes Direct Broadshard Simplicity.
Brogan then rode High Treason on to win the overall Supreme Riding Horse title.
Judges choice
High Treason ticked all the boxes for a Riding Horse. “They need to have limb, more than a hack, but less than a hunter, elegance and go forward and give a good ride,” said judges Mrs A Levy and Mr M Fuller.
And it wasn’t a tough choice for the judges to put him Supreme. “He was mannerly from the moment he came in the ring. This horse hasn’t put a foot wrong, he really stood out for us,” they continued.
Producer John Harvey has had High Treason since he was a three-year-old and broke him for the ring showing him as a novice before Brogan took over the reins when he was five.
“He gives a really nice ride, he’s very mannerly,” added his jockey Brogan.