Meet the spotty dressage championship contender with grand prix aspirations

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2024 Winter Area Festival Championships
Naomi Aguilar and Whitehawk Dancing Fire, pictured competing in Jersey, contested the Petplan Winter Area Festival Championships.
(Image credit: Bekka Adams Photography)

Among the scores of warmbloods in action at Addington, one special pony stood out at the 2024 Petplan Winter Area Festival Championships. Naomi Aguilar’s delightful 14.1hh Appaloosa pony Whitehawk Dancing Fire (Enzo), contested both the prix st georges (PSG) and inter I bronze, finishing a consistent 12th in each one.

“He finds the atmosphere quite exciting – he’s a bit hot and so am I, but I am so pleased with him,” said Naomi. “He’s so reliable, so it was rider error more than anything.”

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.