If you couldn’t attend this year, then these2023 London International Horse Show showing results will help you stay up to date with the action without being at the ringside.
On Sunday and Monday at London International, the British Show Pony Society (BSPS) hosted its highly-anticipated showing finals for the first time. The performance-focused classes welcomed top-class competition, with amateurs and seasoned riders battling it out for the top spots.
Classes for coloured horses and ponies, working hunter ponies, lead rein sports ponies and performance ponies were held, alongside the ever-popular BSPS mountain and moorland supreme ridden championship.
Check out the winners from the 2023 BSPS London International Horse Show championships to see if you might be in with a shot of riding here next season:
2023 London International Horse Show showing results: winners from the BSPS performance showing championships
Heritage lead-rein working sports pony
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Mia-Bella Long and nine-year-old Welsh section A Barracks Soldier Of Victory score the M&M lead-rein sports pony spoils, led by mother Laura-Paige Young.
Junior performance pony
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Owen Parker, 10, is crowned junior performance winner and reserve section champion riding his mother Sarah’s 2023 HOYS Welsh section B pony of the year Rushill Diplomat
Performance pony not exceeding 148cm
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Top honours in the small height performance class go to Julie Ann Maguire’s Hollyland Lion In Winter and Maddison Maguire.
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Performance pony not exceeding 158cm
The London International Horse Show
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Star of the large height performance ponies and securing the section championship is Jessica Ely riding her own gelding Brindlebrook Little Scoundrel.
Non-native coloured
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Leading a strong non-native coloured field is Charlotte Merrigan-Martin aboard her own Solaris Dwenqua.
Native/cob/traditional coloured
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Traditional gelding Splashdown Lenny and Dawn Birdsey put their best foot forward to win the native/cob/traditional title before they take the overall coloured spoils.
Nursery stakes
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Laura Lynch’s former HOYS supreme winner Noble Peppermint jumps to the nursery stakes title with Elsie Lynch in the saddle before they are reserve for the mini working hunter pony title.
Cradle stakes
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The top spot in the cradle stakes final goes to Glebedale Sugarbabe ridden by Libby James. The pair went on to win the mini working hunter pony championship.
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Former H&H showing editor and deputy features editor
Born and raised in the Lake District, Alex has grown up on the showing scene. She has qualified and competed ponies at the Royal International, Horse of the Year Show and Olympia and has first-hand knowledge of the current issues in the showing world as well as the horses, ponies and riders who compete in the sport. Alex joined H&H in January 2018 as showing editor, cementing its place as the leading equestrian publication for both showing reports and current showing news in the UK. She moved on in October 2024 to pursue other opportunities, but continues to write for us on a freelance basis.
