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Second placegetter was the lovely
New Forest stallion River Valley
Sultan who also showed good
potential for the future. Third
place went to Halcyon Scandal,
fourth to View Bank Barista and 5th
was Raven Lodge Aura.I am sure that
these ponies will continue to
improve and we can hopefully look
forward to seeing at least some of
them at the 2010 Dressage With the
Stars next March. The 4 & 5 year old
classes held this weekend are
qualifiers for this very prestigious
event.
 The
5 year old class was next on the
programme with 5 ponies presenting
individually to the judges and
performing the 2nd qualifier test
which is the test they will be
required to perform at the 2010 DWTS
event. Ponies are scored for their
walk, trot, canter and general
impression and the outright winner
of this class was Chris Milvain’s
Mithril Hero’s Return (Coed Coch
Llabed/Mithril Hester), a super
moving grey Welsh B gelding trained
and ridden by Louise Maquire. The
judges were very impressed with the
quality of movement and in
particular, the training of this
pony and forecast a very bright
dressage future for him. Second
place went to the Riding Pony
gelding George Michael owned and
ridden by Brittany Fort with 3rd
place awarded to the Riding Pony
mare Dunelm Chorus owned and
ridden by Sally Linder.
The 5 year old class was sponsored
by Kapeta New Forest Pony Stud and
the winner received a lovely trophy
rug and rosette which was presented
by Mrs Dorothy Horne, representative
of Kapeta Stud. I for one am
certainly looking forward to seeing
how all of these very young 5 year
olds progress over the next 6
months. Following on from the Young
Pony classes was the very popular
freestyles sponsored by Hygain.
Hygain have been long time sponsors
of the Victorian Pony Challenge and
we sincerely thank them for their
continued support. Winner of the
Hygain Novice freestyle was Gypsy
View Peter Pan and Jamie Harding
with second place going to the super
ASPR Performance Club gelding
Zachariah Silver Royal and Sophie
Whitworth. Third place was awarded
to Chris Milvain’s Mithril
Stephanie, ridden by Lauren Gretgrix.
The Hygain Elementary freestyle was
won in great style by Flowervale
Boginov ridden by Danni Flood.
Second was the ASPR 1st Premium
gelding Salisbury My Guy owned by
Jodie Van Breugal and ridden by
Rebecca Ross. Third went to Sophie
Whitworth’s new pony, Koora-Lyn
Sunrise. The Hygain Medium freestyle
was won by Smack the Pony and Katie
Ryman with the Hygain Advanced
Freestyle won by ASPR 1st Premium
stallion Barnon Imperial Jack and
his owner/rider Norm Clark. Norm and
Jack appeared in costume a la’
Braveheart complete with Norm in a
kilt and blue wode!
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