VETERAN Bath showjumper Bina Ford won the top two classes on offer at West Wilts Equestrian Centre’s first BS (British Showjumping) meeting of 2011.

Ford, also a tough rider to beat on the clock, headed the 1.05m Open and the Newcomers/1.10m combined class at the Holt venue, beating Penton Mewsey international event rider Antoinette McKeowen in the first of these.

Her partner was the highly consistent 10 year old bay gelding Teatime III.

The horse is becoming the one they all have to beat at 1.05m level, with his many wins including a victory at the BSJA Area 48 (Somerset) Show in 2010.

Katey Cuthbertson led the Discovery class on the attractive Anglo Arab stallion Persiflage, who was bred at the Biddesden Stud near Andover, also the starting point for William Fox-Pitt’s Badminton and Burghley winner and Olympic ride Tamarillo.

West Wilts-based Mandy Collins won the opening British Novice class on the six year old Flynn’s Boy.

The horse ended his first BE (British Eventing) season in style last year, when he finished second at Solihull and third at West Wilts and Dauntsey.

Collins beat junior rider Louise Baker and her event horse Ghareebs Diamond into second.

She also picked up two thirds on her 10 year old grey horse Little Cruz at the end of the day.

Results

KBIS Insurance British Novice: 1 Flynn's Boy, A Collins; 2 Ghareebs Diamond, L Baker; 3 The Running Total, G Horsley.

95cms Open: 1 Bradley, K Ward; 2 More Gold, A Andrews; 3 Faerie Role, M Watt.

Equissage Discovery: 1 Persiflage, K Cuthbertson; 2 Andes II, S Lewis; 3 A, A McKeowen.

1.05m Open: 1 Teatime III, B Ford; 2 Stillbrook Ben, A McKeowen; 3 Little Cruz, A Collins.

Tri-zone Newcomers/1.10m Open: 1 Teatime III; 2 Walk On, B McInnes; 3 Little Cruz.

PURTON-BASED Rosie Hutchins, soon to turn 16, has booked her ticket to the Dengie Winter League Pony Club Dressage second rounds after ssuccess at West Wilts Equestrian Centre.

The Bradon Forest School student was in action in the Dengie novice dressage first round qualifier, which leads on to the national championships in Warwickshire in early April.

She won the class in convincing fashion, scoring 76% with a plethora of eights and nines from Bradford on Avon’s Julia Stockley, the dressage judge on the day.

“Rosie scored 9’s for the walk and trot, transitions, 20m circles and the rider’s position amongst others, so she was delighted,” said mum Jeannie.

“The judge described her pony Sugar as ‘very pleasing to see’ and they now go on to the Dengie second round qualifier at Cowley in late February.”

This is Rosie’s first year in the Dengie dressage series but she and her 14.2hh roan mare Sugar have gone well in Dengie Winter League showjumping competitions in the past.

“Rosie and Sugar were eighth at the Dengie Championships in 2009 and last year they qualified for the open Dengie show jumping championship, where they had just one pole down,” Mrs Hutchins added.

“They were also on the VWH Pony Club team that made the Pony Club Championships last year, finishing sixth in the Intermediate Dressage team awards.”

Hutchins, who trains with Purton international eventer Neil Spratt as well as Pammy Hutton and Graham Fletcher, also rides the 14.2hh blanket spotted Appaloosa pony Leonola, who she evented and team chased in 2010.

“She also now has a four year old eventer Harry, whose ‘proper’ name is Dalcotes Enfield,” added her mother.

“He’s a 16.1hh horse, so a big step up for her.

"She will probably have to sell Leonola as two ponies and a horse will be a bit too much.

"The ponies have been a joy and 2010 was a really good year, but Rosie wants to concentrate on Harry come the summer.”

Wylye Valley Pony Club’s Ellie Riley, from near Frome, was runner-up in the Dengie qualifier on Razamataz IV.

Stonar School student Amber Woodhouse, 17, scored a double in the prelim classes.

She rode the dark bay Hanoverian stallion Don Cruise, who turns five this year and looks a great prospect.

Woodhouse is also a promising event rider who finished fifth at the Junior Regional Novice Championships at Weston Park in 2009 with White Walker.

Results

Prelim 18: 1 Don Cruise, A Woodhouse; 2 Bee, K Harris; 3 Ziggy, K Hulbert.

Prelim 14: 1 Don Cruise; 2 Gigi, K Harris; 3 Sugar, R Hutchins.

Novice 20: 1 Magic Roundabout, S Boon; 2 Gabarden, H Sheppard.

Elementary 42: 1 Gabarden; 2 Magic Roundabout.

PC Dengie Winter League qualifier: 1 Sugar, R Hutchins; 2 Razamataz IV, E Riley.

WEST Wilts also staged a ‘show jumping for eventers’ competition last week, where Malmesbury’s Kathryn Harris won two of the three classes on offer.

The ex-international eventer topped the Pre Novice with Gigi and the Novice with her seven year old mare Zambesi, who evented successfully at BE100 level in 2010.

She beat another international rider, Joanna Rimmer, into second both times.

The Intro class was won by junior rider Katie Lippiatt on the promising rising five year old Hazlehill Jasper, who is by the New Forest stallion Knightsway Billy Boy.

Results

Intro: 1 Hazlehill Jasper, K Lippiatt; 2 Raffles, S Martin; 3 Otto, J Rimmer.

Pre-Novice: 1 Gigi, K Harris; 2 Frank, J Rimmer; 3 Otto.

Novice: 1 Zambezi, K Harris; 2 Frank; 3 Domino, C Burkey.

SEVEN Wiltshire riders from Wiltshire have been selected for the British Equestrian Federation’s (BEF) World Class Development Programme for the next two years.

Event riders David Doel (17) from Lacock and Tom McEwen (19), from Swindon, para-equestrian dressage rider Alex Sutton (17), from Swindon and dressage rider Olivia Oakeley (17) from Minety, have all been selected for the first time.

West Littleton eventer Harry Meade (27), Laura Collett (21) from Marlborough and dressage rider Gemma Green (27), from Malmesbury have been re-selected.

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