‘He was my 18th birthday present’: part-bred Connemara is home-produced supreme at the RIHS

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The coveted Pretty Polly championship at the 2023 Royal International Horse Show (RIHS) saw home-producers battle it out for the overall sash, and supreme of them all was the winning intermediate combination, Isabella Grace Worthington and her own and her mother Nicola’s Dolphins Lawyer (Raffi).

The seven-year-old gelding provided 20-year-old Isabella, who is in the throes of finishing her degree in rural land management at university, with her first-ever blue sash. While Isabella has produced Raffi since he joined her as a just-backed four-year-old, she has her mother to thank for finding him.

Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson
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.