Bath & West Friday 1st June

Forest Ponies did well at the bath 7 west this year. Mesdames Pound & Parker’s Moorcorner Minstrell II, Forest bred, won a large good quality class of NF & Connemmara ridden ponies. He looked wonderful and went really well. Second was Mr & Mrs Large’s very nice young stallion Willoway Free Spirit . Also in the first 10 were Fritham Topper, Longcopse Elton and Burley Holly. Elton in particular showing a really good free walk, surely a must for any native, whatever it was traditionally used for.

Miss V Palmers Purkiss Summer Breeze, very ably ridden by Jade Palmer won a very large first ridden classs. The pony did a lovely show and then showed perfect manners standing quietly in line for a particularly long time.

The in hand classes had good entries and were a pretty level lot. There were some lovely movers but it was worrying to see few really clean hocks. The Champion of the day was Alison Adams 4 yr old brood mare Maytree Cloudberry. This is a nice free moving pony had a foal at foot by Beechwood Comet that took the foal prize.

Reserve champion was the winner of the stallion class miss Collis’s Vernon’s Toy Boy. This class only had five forward but they were all good ponies.

The 2 & 3 yr old class was well filled and was headed by Mr P Pidgley’s’ Haywards Enigma from the quality colt Mr & Mrs O Dibdin’s Willoway Dancing Gold.

The Yearling class only had five forward out of 15 entries with not a filly among them was won by Sandra Kilford’s Furzley Accolaide with John Adam’s Hollybooke Rambler

2nd.

Dionis Macnair

Results

New Forest Mare 4 yrs & over

1stMaytree Cloudberry owned and bred by Alison Adams

By Wayland Cranberry ex Gosden Holly

Foal by Beechwood Comet winning foal prize

2nd Peveril Pure Phantasy owned and bred by Mrs E Haycock

By Luckington Leo Ex Peveril Pure Mischief

3rd Brock Brocade owned & bred by Mr J young & Ms T Nineham

Yearlings

1st Furzley Accolaide owned & bred by Sandra Kilford

by Luckington Sportaide Ex Sophia

2nd Hollybrooke Rambler owned & bred by Mr J Adams

By Burley Traveller Ex Randalls Little Gem

3rd Mr J Adams Hollybrooke Tinker owned & bred by Mr J Adams

By Burley Traveller ex Coffee Crunch

2 & 3yr olds

1St Haywards Enigma owned & bred by Mr P Pidgley

By Longcopse Elton ex Ebony & Ivory.

2nd Willoway Dancing Gold owned by Mr & Mrs W O Dibdin

bred by Mr & Mrs C Large

By Peveril Peter Piper Ex Tomatin Gold Rush

3rd Willoway Madeline owned by Mr P Armitage bred by Mr & Mrs C Large

By Woodrow Prince Harry ex Willoway Pipers Pride

Stallion 4 yrs & over

1st Vernons Toy Boy owned by Miss E Collis bred by Miss A McGrath

by Vernons Vespers ex Vernons Tomasina

2nd Longcopse Elton owned by Mr P Pidgley bred by Mrs P N Parsons

by Furzely lodge Samson ex Furzey Lodge Annie

3rd Willoway Free Spirit owned & bred by Mr & mrs C Large

by Peveril Peter Piper ex Mercury Amy