‘He gets away with murder at home’: heavyweight worker goes one better to take top title at Royal Windsor

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Alice Homer riding Little Joe during Working Hunter Championship at the Royal Windsor Horse Show, held within the private grounds of Windsor Castle, in Windsor in Berkshire in the UK, on the 10th May 2022
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Young riders dominated in the 2022 Royal Windsor Horse Show working hunter championship with last year’s winning heavyweight and reserve repeating their class victory and going one better in the overall to secure the title.

This was Alice Homer, 20, who rode her own nine-year-old gelding Little Joe, by KEC Maximus. Joe produced one of two clears in the heavyweight class en route to capturing the championship before judges Matthew Ainsworth and John Gilliver, who chose the second placed heavyweight, Dunkerrin Leader 10-year-old Noble Gladiator (Eleanor Hirst) as reserve in the Royal Windsor working hunter championship.

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.