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Heavyweight winner takes RIHS cob supreme, while amateur is reserve

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    • Cobs kicked off showing on the final day of the Longines International Arena at the 2022 Royal International Horse Show (RIHS), as four contenders battled it out for The Surrey Envelopes RIHS supreme cob championship accolade. Judges David Ingle and David Bartram-Lawson were presented with a quality championship, which included two amateur riders.

    Winning lightweight, Randalstown Rolex (Nicola McConville), was joined by top heavyweight Horton’s Magnifico (Justine Armstrong-Small). Second placed lightweight Red Butler (Sarah Walker) and bridesmaid heavyweight Master Of The House (Kate Barber-Lomax) were also welcomed into the championship.

    The supreme was awarded to Justine, judge of the working hunter pony classes earlier in the week, and the lovely heavyweight Horton’s Magnifico, a seven-year-old owned by Lauren Cunningham. The gelding was third at the RIHS and won three HOYS qualifiers last season, despite it being his first open season.

    This year he stepped up to give both Lauren and Justine their first ever RIHS overall title.

    “We took him out with the bloodhounds over winter and it really helped him get more forward,” Justine told H&H earlier in the season when he qualified for the RIHS. “I’ve been reserve at the RIHS many times, but I’ve never had an overall championship.”

    Reserve for the RIHS supreme cob championship went to home-producer’s Nicola McConville prolific lightweight Randalstown Rolex, a 13-year-old who won the amateur cob supreme in 2019 with Nicola.

    The last time a heavyweight won the RIHS supreme cob title was in 2018, when Randalstown Musketeer and Vicky Hesford achieved glory.

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    Alex Robinson
    Alex Robinson

    H&H showing 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 since when she has cemented its place as the leading equestrian publication for both showing reports and current showing news in the UK.
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