What you didn’t know about… Major Moylaw
Loraine Homer tells H&H about the heavyweight hunter who rides like a hack.
Fact file
Stable name: Bud
Age: seven
Height: 17.1hh
Breed: Irish sport horse
Sire: Romabo
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Dam: Moylaw Ginger
Discipline: showing
Owner: Mr & Mrs Alan Hall
Rider: Loraine Homer
Groom: Victoria Sanders Best ever result: champion hunter at the Royal International Horse Show in 2011
Five things you didn’t know…
1 He was bred by Mr and Mrs Oliver Flanagan, who live in Co Mayo, Ireland.
2 He is the only hunter Loraine has campaigned as an open horse in his four-year-old year. He was exceptional, winning major shows – including standing champion hunter at Bramham – and qualifying for the Royal International (RIHS) and Horse of the Year Show (HOYS).
3 He is a fair-weather fellow, so if it is a cold and windy day we don’t usually ride him.
4 I broke him in November 2008 and he won his first class in March 2009 – the novice heavyweight indoors at Addington Manor EC.
5 As a four-year-old, we had several lessons with dressage supremo Emile Faurie, who thought he was a fabulous prospect.
To read the full interview with Loraine Homer about Major Moylaw see the 10 May issue of H&H
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Emma, a graduate of Exeter University, joined H&H in 2011 from our sister title The Field. She hunts and events from her home county of Warwickshire and has written on topics as diverse as Badminton to ratting. She became team chasing editor in 2012, before leaving H&H in spring 2013 to spend more time with her horses.