Baileys Horse Feeds BEF Futurity Eventing Championships final
Two young horses from the region have been recognised as two of the country’s top eventing prospects. The youngsters received excellent marks at the Baileys Horse Feeds/BEF Futurity Eventing Championship Finals held at the Lycetts British Eventing Young Horse Championships in Osberton, Nottinghamshire recently.
Jennie Loriston-Clarke and Toby Vernon both from Stockbridge near Andover were invited to bring their youngsters to the eventing finals after they achieved top scores at the BEF Futurity Evaluations in August.
The evaluations aim to identify British bred young potential sport horses and ponies destined for careers in dressage, eventing, show- jumping or endurance, and may even find the Olympic Champions of the future.
Jennie Loriston Clarke’s home bred three year old colt, Catherston Definitive, was awarded the champion title having qualified for the Osberton finals at the Catherston 2 Futurity evaluation where he received an Elite premium. Catherston Definitive was also the top three year old across the disciplines in the 2012 Futurity.
The colt is by the Catherston Stud’s stallion Catherston Dazzler out of
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Thoroughbred mare Celony, who has Primitive Rising and Deep Run bloodlines. “I was quite disappointed with Definitive as youngster as he didn’t move as well as his breeding suggested he should” said Jennie, “He scored a 1st premium as a yearling and a low Elite premium as a two year old. He’s been very slow to mature and it’s taken until this year to see his true potential. He’s now a fantastic mover and jumps extremely well,
he’s bold, has beautiful style and enjoys it”. Celony has proved to be a very successful broodmare both for Jennie and for her owner Fiona Boyne; the 13 year old was injured as a four year old so was unfortunately never competed. Her progeny have scored well in the Futurity and are now starting their careers eventing.
Best two year old at the Championship was the colt, Audacio Equites who earned a Higher First premium at the Catherston 2 Futurity for owner Toby Vernon and breeder Vanessa Vernon from Stockbridge. Audacio Equites is by the Trakehner stallion Grafenstolz, out of Just Chilli by Kuwait Beach. Just Chilli is a thoroughbred mare and successfully competed in young horse classes and a few point to points before her owners’ circumstances led to her being left out in a field for a number of years. It was then that Vanessa bought her as a broodmare. “She is now at Langaller Farm, where Kuwait Beach stood.
They were really keen to have her as a brood mare as there are very few pure thoroughbred mares by Kuwait Beach around” said Vanessa. She chose to use Grafenstolz as she used to own a 10% share in the stallion and had always thought very highly of him. “My colt has certainly inherited his lovely loose movement.
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We will be breaking him in over the winter and hopefully grading him next year” said Vanessa. “The Futurity is very useful for us small breeders, giving us a good idea of what standard we are breeding and a great opportunity to get the young stock out”.
Pictured:
1, Catherston Definitive 2, Audacio Equites
Photos: ES Photography
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