Search for a Star (SFAS)
The SEIB Search for a Star (SFAS) series is a showing championship for amateur home-produced show riders.
There are several qualifiers held over the year and the final is held at the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). The is a seperate mountain and moorland (M&M) championship held at Your Horse Live.
The SEIB SFAS has numerous top show horses to its credit, including multi-garlanded hack Fleetwater Xecutive (Jordan Cook) who won the final back in 2007.
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Road to the SFAS finals: Winning endurance pony proves his versatility by successful switching to the show ring
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Road to the SFAS finals: ‘He’s a sensitive soul’ – quirky Welsh cob defies the odds to become show ring champion
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‘I bought him as a hunt horse’: Home-produced show rider on how she found her 2021 Search For A Star champion
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The Horse & Hound Podcast 73: SEIB Search for a Star winner | Maryland review | Managing competition nerves | News update
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HOYS 2021: Which home-produced combinations reigned in the SEIB Search For A Star finals?
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‘I have to go home and get horses ready for tomorrow’s hunt’: Stud groom secures SEIB Search For A Star title on superb lightweight
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SEIB Search For A Star and Racehorse to Riding Horse qualifiers announced
Don't miss your opportunity to qualify for these popular showing finals in 2021
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‘I just did this pathetic wave’ — 2019 SEIB Search For A Star champion on her HOYS centre line moment
“The last time I was at the NEC I was watching Disney On Ice...”
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HOYS 2019: Which home-produced heroes reigned in the SEIB Search For A Star finals?
Congratulations to all the winners who reigned this year...
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Heading to HOYS 2019: Ex-racehorse with former jockey shine in the show ring
‘Monkey ran 33 times as a racehorse, winning nine races and five times I was riding him...’
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HOYS SEIB Search For A Star final: meet the 2018 winners
Some real motivation from these home-produced pairs
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‘He’s lucky to be alive’— Welsh cob bounces back from laminitis to qualify for Search for a Star finals
‘I misunderstood and soaked the hay before weighing it so Tigger was being fed really very little — the vet then said it was this that saved his life’
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‘He was a complete accident’ — Show horse with ‘unusual’ breeding qualifies for HOYS
His dam is a 16.2hh warmblood and his sire a naughty Dartmoor pony...
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Search for a Star series introduces new Mountain and Moorland final
The SEIB Search for a Star series has launched a new native class for 2018
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SEIB Search For A Star — what exactly are the judges looking for?
Find out the winning formula behind the SEIB Search For A Star showing series
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Accountant wins the SEIB Search for a Star championship at HOYS
Find out which amateur riders have excelled themselves under the Birmingham spotlights.
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‘He could have died’: rescued horse qualifies for HOYS
When George Gently was rescued in 2014 he was severely malnourished
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Rider almost ignored HOYS call over PPI fears
The competitor thought her chance to qualify had gone
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'Sleep is for wimps!': Search For A Star champions crowned at HOYS
Find out which amateur riders triumphed on the world-famous stage