Horse & Hound – 22 August 2019

56 Horse&Hound 22 August 2019

SHOWING

NPS SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS

6-8 August

A ridingponyyearlinglandstheCuddy breeders’ supreme title while a Welsh

sectionC bagshissecondHOYSticket in a week

National Pony Society (NPS)

Summer Championships, Three

Counties Showground, Worcs

A FORMER Horse of the Year

show (HOYS) champion went

through the card to land the

Ottergayle supreme in-hand title.

Llanarth Fair Play won the

in-hand hack title and later went

head-to-head with the riding

horse winners to top the overall

supreme in-hand hack/riding

horse championship.

Led by owner Nuala Ellis

Jones, Fair Play won the top

in-hand accolade.

“She’s been fabulous here,” said

Nuala, who also took the junior

ByREBECCAHAYWOOD

The fairest of them all

supreme title with the 11-year-

old part-bred Welsh mare the

previous evening when they were

awarded the president’s prize.

The pair also contest

intermediate show riding type

classes and finished second in

a HOYS qualifier at Cheshire

County. Naula, 17, has recently

completed her A levels.

“It’s been hard trying to fit it all

in, but she really is my horse of a

lifetime,” she added.

Reserve went to the three-year-

old riding horse champion, Cathy

Dowhills Mon Ami lands the Cuddy supreme in-hand ticket Wood’s Time Will Tell, who has

‘My horse of a lifetime’:

Llanarth Fair Play lands the

Ottergayle supreme in-hand

title for Nuala Ellis Jones