A house-bred mare cemented her potential as a star of the long run as she topped the KBIS seven-year-old younger horse championship on the 2023 LeMieux Nationwide Dressage Championships.
Nicola Buchanan rode the Countess of Shaftesbury, Dinah Ashley-Cooper’s St Giles Flamboyant to attain a chunky successful complete of 78.8%.
By Franklin, “Frankie” is out of a Furst Romancier mare, as Nicola defined: “Her dam has had six foals thus far and all of them are wonderful. Frankie is her first foal, and I’m additionally using her half sister, who’s by Dream Boy. We even have a four-year-old out of the identical mare who could be very related in stamp to Frankie. Dinah is breeding some beautiful younger horses, so it’s an thrilling time for the St Giles prefix.
“It’s each breeder’s dream to breed a proficient horse with a vivid future, and Frankie is certainly that.”
Nicola has ridden horses for Dinah for over a decade and she or he has been partnered with Frankie, who was second on the nationals final yr within the medium remaining, since she was a five-year-old.
“This horse is simply so athletic; if I might trip 10 like her every day, life can be wonderful,” Nicola continued. “She is so prepared to indicate off and work. She tries her coronary heart out and it’s so beautiful to have a horse who’s with you all the best way.”
First Nationwide Dressage Championships title for 19-year-old rider
Alice Knight, 19, was delighted to guide the Saracen Horse Feeds inter I silver championship with Wendy Knight’s 13-year-old SJL Dom Perignon.
The gelding was initially produced by Michelle Blake of Childeric Dressage Saddles, who competed him as much as small tour stage.
“We had him on lease for a few yr, and we got the chance to purchase him earlier this yr,” defined nationals debutante Alice. “That is our first championships collectively; I’m so happy with him.
“His spotlight is certainly his prolonged canter; it simply comes out of him within the enviornment. Our canter pirouettes have been additionally tremendous tidy and neat. He loves competing and being skilled. He lives for his work and he thrives on being busy. I hope to marketing campaign him at inter II subsequent yr.”
The household have just lately began up their very own enterprise, Knights Dressage, which relies in West Sussex.
“That is the most important win of my profession thus far,” Alice added.
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