A Connemara mare delights her connections and the cob championship produces tears: the results from day two of Royal Windsor
Check out the list of big winners who shone on the second day of showing at the 2021 Royal Windsor Horse Show.
Robert and Sarah Walker took both spots in the ridden hunter championship with Rob and Jill Day’s View Point reigning over Sarah and Chief Whip. Eve Duggan’s Withymoor Damsel and Leon King topped the small hunter class.
The Connemara mare Skaergaardens Delicious Love trotted her way to the Horse & Hound mountain and moorland in-hand supreme title. Reserve was the Kiley family’s Welsh section A Idyllic Guinevere.
Alice Homer won her second class of the show after she took the four-year-old hunter class riding Bloomfield President. Jayne Ross and Ellie Harper’s Wall Street impressed the judges on route to the novice hunter title. Amanda Picilo and Carol Taylor’s five-year-old home-bred Up With The Lark son Dare To Dream won the novice hacks. Sarah Walker rode the stunning lightweight contender Red Butler to clinch the novice cob accolade in a quality field of top names.
The lightweight cob class and section championship went to Vicky Smith and Bling Cobsby who reigned over Allister Hood and Our Cashel Blue. Leading heavyweight was Janay Leeman aboard her own Randalstown Top Notch.
Sarah Walker rode Miranda Wallace’s Forgelands Hyde Park to clinch the hack accolade, standing over Jordan Cook and Cindy Dilasser’s Stanley Grange Lady Eleanor.
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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.