Based in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, Team Hollings have been at the top of their game for more than 40 years.
The team comprises of brothers Nigel and Stuart, Nigel’s wife Penny and their daughter Alexandra, and between them they have won many of the top accolades in the showing world.
Stuart is a Horse and Hound columnist and is on all the major judging panels. Nigel is an Executive Member of Council of the British Show Pony Society and Chairman of the Judges and Assessment Panel. He is also chairman of the British Show Horse Association and a former council member of Sport Horse Breeding and CHAPS. He too is on all major judging panels and judges regularly in the UK and abroad.
Penny is a registered BHS instructor and regularly teaches. She is also a judge for a number of societies.
Nigel and Stuart have been regular faces in the show ring from a young age and in 1972 Team Hollings tasted major success for the first time when Nigel took the show pony championship at the Horse of the Year Show on Snailwell Charles. Since this achievement, Team Hollings have produced a further 18 Horse of the Year Show winners and 33 Royal International Horse Show winners.
Team Hollings has up to 28 horses and ponies at any one time, which they care for individually so they can reach the highest standards. Since 1975 Team Hollings has been interested in breeding show horses and ponies and they founded the Pendle Stud. In 2009 they celebrated the success of their first homebred HOYS winner Pendle First Light in the 15hh Show Hunter Pony class, she also took the same title at the RIHS earlier in the summer.
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