TENGOAL | Royal Windsor Horse Show


Pepe Araya, George Meyrick, Siri Evjemo-Nysveen, Jose Araya and the Monterosso grooms and their charges On telephoning Her Majesty that evening to inform her how well her horse had gone,


she politely asked who had won? When Lord Patrick quietly replied that his own horse had won... there was a frosty and pointed silence on the other end of the line!


overseas, indeed on a prodigious scale, have been HRH The Sultan of Pahang’s Zorro in 1977, Fleche in 1978 and Ventecinquo in 1980. She subsequently won again, after her owner’s coronation as HM The King of Malaysia, in 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1987. Royal patronage aside one name has


dominated the prize winners over the years - that of the man who started it all in 1959, Lord Patrick Beresford. Although regularly riding for others, most notably HRH The Sultan of Pahang / HM The King of Malaysia, Lord Patrick first featured as a winning owner himself in 1979 on the rich bay gelding Amberjack, who went on to win four times in an 11-year period. To this day Amberjack remains Lord Patrick’s favourite pony, out of a very large quality cast, who was able to stop and turn on his hocks and then take off at the full gallop better than any other pony he has witnessed. Other winners for Lord Patrick includes Amberjack’s full sister Amber Hill. In fact Lord Patrick’s name appears almost annually from 1979 through until 2000 on Cicciolina and in the 13-year period between 1982 and 1994 he had a clean sweep of all the trophies on no less than seven occasions! There would have been an eighth occasion


in 1992 but for HM The Queen’s High Tea, bred by her out of Highclere, winning the Towry Law Trophy for Best Turn Out as mentioned previously. Indeed Lord Patrick was also riding High Tea that day when he had the temerity to relegate The Queen’s horse into second place in the Lightweight division by performing better on his own horse Pierra. On telephoning Her Majesty that evening to inform her how well her horse had gone, she politely asked who had won? When Lord Patrick quietly replied that his own horse had


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won. . . there was a frosty and pointed silence on the other end of the line! HM The Queen’s frostiness was


exacerbated by the pronounced personal interest


she had taken in High Tea’s


development. On encountering an overseas groom being unduly harsh on the filly and having commanded him to “stop it”, Her Majesty transferred the horse to Lord Patrick to finish its training. High Tea’s grandmother, who had won Best Playing Pony in the Argentine Open, had been a gift to HRH Prince Philip from the Nelsons in Argentina, so the family interest was strong! Leading


lady player Lila Pearson


subsequently bought High Tea and won the Sir John Aird Trophy in 2002, prior to the pair participating in “All The Queen’s Horses” during the Golden Jubilee Pageant at the RWHS. Today Lila Pearson is playing


Leading lady player Lila Pearson subsequently bought High Tea and won the Sir John Aird Trophy in 2002


High Tea’s grandchildren, by Assam – the 14 year old stallion she bred out of High Tea that continues to play today as a well- behaved entire - incredibly the great, great grand progeny (five generations) of the original gifted mare to HRH Prince Philip. Another name that features regularly is


that of the Vesteys with five family members – Lord Vestey, Hon Mark Vestey, Ben Vestey, Nina Clarkin (nee Vestey, currently the world’s leading lady player) and Tamara Fox (nee Vestey) - being owners of winning ponies. Lord Vestey (Master of the Horse, 1999 – 2018) won on Bigua in 1974 and was still winning in 2011 on Andariego (Reg) 37 years later. A nice touch was that when Lord Vestey rode Andariego, who also won in 2004 and 2010, in the Royal Windsor show ring he wore his old Stowell Park polo shirt that he had previously worn in three Queen’s Cup


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