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Stanley and Jane are side saddle champions
Northamptonshire-based side-saddle rider, Jane Harper has had a brilliant summer competing with her talented gelding, Crimewave ll at shows up and down the country.
This year Jane changed his feed to Fibre-Beet and the show rings results speak for themselves. Crimewave II - also known as Stanley – is a 17hh gelding, rising 21-years-old and he has never looked in better condition. Just a few of Stanley’s results include first at the Veteran Horse Society Championships, which automatically qualified them to compete in more classes throughout the event. They went on to become the Saturday night Champion of Champions, before claiming the Sunday evening Supreme Reserve Overall Champion of the Year. The next few weeks are set to prove very exciting for Jane and Stanley as they have also qualified for one of the biggest events of the year, The Olympia International Horse Show. Explained Jane: “I am over
the moon with how Stanley has been performing, he really looks well and is winning classes against horses that are 10-years younger than him, and he still loves to compete.” She continued;: “I have owned Stanley for 18-years now, and
since being fed on Fibre-Beet he looks like a completely different horse, especially with the shine on his coat. My other horses are also fed on Fibre-Beet and can’t get enough of it!” For more information visit www.
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The 2017 British Riding Clubs TopSpec Dressage to Music Championships took place at Bury Farm Equestrian Village with new sponsorship from TopSpec that will support the championships until 2019.
Jane Harper and Stanley competing at the National Veteran
Championships 2017. Image courtesy of Equipics
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The first winner of the weekend competing in the BRC TopSpec Medium / Advanced Medium ‘Pick A Test’ Dressage to Music Championship was 15-year-old Holly Cristofoli riding Watch Me V from Solent Riding Club. Holly rode an extremely expressive Advanced Medium on her stunning16.1hh, chestnut gelding test scoring 71.75%, with music by Olly Murs. Samantha McEwan riding Prince Nestor from Meon Riding Club lifted the BRC TopSpec Elementary Dressage to Music Championship. Scoring over 73%, with an imaginative floor plan, set to Irish themed music, which really complemented the exuberant grey, 14.1hh Connemara stallion. Louise Samuels riding Galaxy VCG from Essendon Riding Club was thrilled to win the BRC TopSpec Novice with Points Dressage to Music Championship, Louise, a livery yard owner, went last in this class and produced a foot perfect routine to post the highest score of the weekend 75.42%. Louise has produced Galaxy a 16.2hh, bay gelding, who is just six-years-old and this was the highlight of their career so far, they are currently competing at British Dressage Novice level. The BRC TopSpec Mixed Pairs Dressage to Music Championship was won this year by riders representing South Durham Saddle Club. Initially the pair Caroline Tough and Trevoulter Silver Replica, and Helen Williams with Secretly Unique appeared slightly mismatched, but clearly proved through great choreography and well thought out music that the horses don’t necessarily have to be the same size and colour, as long as they work well in rhythm and harmony together. Steph Woolley won the BRC TopSpec Novice Points Dressage to Music Championship, repeating her win in this class back in 2015. Again riding Freckleton Matador from Malvern Hills Riding Club, they won with a score of 72.36%. Steph owns this lovely 17.1hh, nine-year- old chestnut, British Warmblood gelding jointly with her mum Rita. Freckleton Matador has only recently come back into work following an injury. Steph’s Dolly Parton themed music, matched perfectly with Freckleton Matador’s flowing paces.
The first of the two Junior Championship classes, the BRC TopSpec Junior Prelim Dressage to Music Championship was won by Morgan-Beth Crockford riding Crumpwell Uriel from West Oxfordshire Riding Club, with a
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