International flavour to RIHS showing classes at Hickstead

Giving the Royal International Horse Show at Hickstead a truly international flavour, the Russian-bred stallion Adres stood top in the Arabianlines.com pure-bred ridden Arab class.

Jointly owned by Nadia Howard-Price and Paul and Frances Atkinson, the 12-year-old gave judge Nicola Faulconbridge a superb ride. By Drug out of Agata, Adres was bought in Holland in 2004. Although lightly shown this season, Adres has stood supreme twice at the Northern and Wessex AHS shows.

Coloured ponies – Indian Trail skewbald & piebald mixed type – 1 & res, V Windsor-Phillips’s Millpond Look At Me; 2, K Bass’s Millpond Look Again; 3, B Liddle’s Mini Tidkin Soldier. do mixed type small – 1, M Burrows’s Secret Weapon; 2, P Howarth’s Hullabaloo; 3, C Bishop’s Miss Dynamite. lge pony – 1 &ch, C Brunskill’s Soulbury Spot O; 2, S Lanz’s Misty Blue; 3, G Taverner’s Fanville David. traditional lge pony – 1, S Hollinshead’s Longdon Domno; 2, K Talbot’s The Pied Piper 3, S Harrison’s Chantilly Lace VI. coloured horses – lwt – 1, M Doherty’s Shybont Master Class; 2, T Veale’s Shybont Bean Dance; 3, J Blundell’s Electric Storm. plaited – 1, ch & supr, E Place’s Red Andes; 2 & res, S Lawrence’s Wulfstan King of the Mountain; 3, S Jones’s Nibeley Bertie Bassett. native/trad – 1, A Stewart’s Tapestry; 2, K Ahern’s Jasper Bailey; 3, Baileys Horse Feeds’ Zenith. Sandal BMW SHP 122cm – 1, Dr Yule’s Little Briars Told You So; 2, V Rudd’s Rillaton Trade Fair. LR – 1, Mrs Burrell’s Lochar Red Buttons; 2, S Leech’s Annandale Darcy; 3, S McMullan’s Templedruid Hypericum. 153cm – 1, K Bott’s Cool Justice; 2, E Lorimar’s Seatshill Little Rogue;3, A Love’s Pocohuntus. 143cm – 1 & res, J Templeton Show Team’s Thimbley Final Edition; 2, S Hinchliffe’s Roseberry Serendipity; 3, L Hillyard’s Van Gogh. 133cm – 1 & ch, L Edwards’s Hindleap Choir Boy; 2, L Anderson’s Parkhill Beckham; 3, Fitzgerald & O’Kelly’s Highmead Politician. Irish Sport Horse Stud Book WHP 153cm – 1 & ch, S Allen’s All Fired Up; 2 & res, D Gardham’s Belle Vue Royal Prince; 3, E Barnes’s Noble Rock Star. 143cm – 1, C Heginbotham’s Whineray Beach Boy; 2, D Ward’s Sannn Valley Ovation; 3, D Wittbrick’s Folly II. 133cm – 1, K Melville’s Defaelog Rhianon; 2, M Sargent’s Valentine Heathcliffe; 3, B Maybin’s Wedderlie Marmion. The Members of Arabianairlines.com ridden pure bred arab – 1, Atkinson & Howard-Price’s Adres; 2, S Rose’s Shayna Maydel; 3, S George’s Bolaero.

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