New Rides and a Wedding for Sarah Challinor......

SUPREME PRODUCTS® team member Sarah Challinor is looking forward to combining a busy year on the show circuit with getting married to partner, Simon, at the height of the summer.

Sarah Challinor and Pumphill Buckthorn - HOYS M & M Champions; Hoys M & M Worker Champions and Olympia M & M Ridden Champions in 2010.

Says Sarah: “We have a few exciting new novices to produce and are very excited about Pumphill Buckthorn's brother Pumphill Beal.

“He is stunning and a real prospect to look out for this season.  We also have a lovely Connemara mare called Lookout Calla Suprise plus loads more so we are going to be very busy.

“We are hoping 2011 will be as successful as last year but it will be a very hard act to follow so we will be working very hard to give it a go.

“As well as all the producing and competing there is a very special day to look forward to on July 22 as Simon and I are getting married!

“Our honeymoon at the Royal International Horse Show will certainly be different and hectic but there is never really a right or a wrong time to get married when you are so busy with the horses and ponies – we will just have to be ultra organised.”

The Season is just around the corner! Update from Rob Walker....

Team Walker - Rob, Sarah & Sam

WITH a yard full of young horses to break and produce for this season, getting through the winter has been very eventful for Supreme Products team members Robert and Sarah Walker.

Coping with the snow made everything even harder work but Robert and Sarah are now looking forward to the early season shows and will have their hands full this year with both established stars and young new faces.

Says Robert: “At the minute the young horses are being prepped and smartened up ready to make their debuts in the showing world. They are currently on road work to strengthen and harden their legs and generally get used to a busier pace of life.

“Some new faces on the yard include Jill Day’s Benjamin Button, a four-year-old heavy weight hunter by Jumbo who had a very successful in-hand season winning at the East of England and a number of other major shows,

“The topically named Royal Engagement, owned by Lucy Smith-Crallan, is a four-year-old small hack by Spartacus that is very special. Sarah and I also have a lightweight cob called Killarney Silver which was bought in Ireland.

“The early shows will soon be here so there is certainly plenty to keep us busy and out of mischief!”

 

2011 Plans for Stanley Grange Show Team

Based at Great Ayton in North Yorkshire the Supreme Products sponsored Stanley Grange Show Team and stud have been breeding and producing top class show horses and ponies for many years.

Founder Jerome Harforth, has been showing for 36 years and during this time has teamed up with top show rider Simon Charlesworth to take the honours at many major championships.

Here we find out what they have planned for the new season including some new additions to the yard.

Plans for the season:

Says Jerome: “With the Show Team, our season has already started. We were out for the first time at BSPS Area 1a with a variety of new novices. We will continue in the same vein, producing In-Hand, Ridden Show Ponies, Hunter Ponies, Hacks, Riding Horses and Hunters. 

“First of the Championship shows is the BSPS Winter Champs which will then be followed by the start of the major shows around the country. In-Hand Shows start with the West Midlands Show.  Our aim as ever is to produce to the highest standard which will hopefully culminate in a happy and successful year for our many clients.

New Horses and Ponies for the season:

First Ridden - Charn Secret Fairytale owned by Mrs De-Pree

138 cms - Masterton Midsummer Rose owned by Mrs Bankier

148cms - Greenbarrow Bronze King fowned by Mrs Reik

148cms- Colbeach Regal Model for Mrs Rudd - she was previously shown In-hand by the team and qualified for the Cuddy in 2008.

143cms - Frithwell Champagne Charlie owned by Mrs Jackson

In-hand the team has a lovely selection of young stock to show including, two new youngsters for Mrs Sue Grimshaw of the Moluccas Stud.

New ponies for the 2011 season!

Supreme Products sponsored show pony producer Katy Carter will have her hands full this year with a number of new exciting prospects on the Staffordshire yard. Katy's daughter Poppy will also be busy with several new rides for both owners and members of the family.

Meet the Ponies

Small Land Hotspot is owned and will be lead by Nichole Gaskin and ridden by her daughter Vienna.

Woodview Shangri-la, a four-year-old chestnut mare, is owned by Mrs Cartlidge and will be ridden by Kate’s daughter Poppy in first ridden classes.

Four-year-old bay gelding, Megland Jaunty will also be entered for First Ridden classes and is owned by Katy with Poppy taking the ride.

Chagford Lewis will be aimed at First Ridden for his owner Graine and ridden by her son Richard.

Rotherwood Rainmaker, another four-year-old bay gelding and Chatwood Elite, a five-year-old dark bay gelding, will be produced as Novices for Poppy to take up the reins.

Tonkenfig Tom Thumb, a 14.2hh black gelding, owned by Louise Anderson and ridden by her daughter Rebecca has also joined the team.

Rosedew Monet, a 13hh bay gelding Show Hunter Pony, has now been backed and will be shown as a five-year-old. Woodend Matilda, the 12hh grey mare Show Hunter Pony will also be ridden by Poppy.

Stylchlands Chevalier, a 14hh Show Hunter Pony owned by Liz Stanleick is the ride of Harriet Searle while Moluccas Peppercorn, a 13.2hh dark bay five-year-old, owned by Tana White will be ridden by Lauren White.

All in all, it sounds like a busy year for 'Team Katy Carter.......!'

Team Hollings - Planning for the Year Ahead!

Supreme Products sponsored Team Hollings are looking forward to an exciting 2011 season with a host of new horses and ponies joining their busy yard in Lancashire.

Here we find out their plans for the year ahead.........

Said Penny Hollings: “Our main aim is to train the animals in our care to the best of our ability to achieve the best results possible.

“We are also looking forward to working with Supreme Products to enhance and expand the range which is an essential part of both our everyday work and care and our show ring preparation.

“This year we have some new ponies joining the team and these will be our very exciting developments, we hope!

“We have a new novice plaited coloured, Monivae Artistic Dream, joining us, and another Native coloured, Login Lucky Lad, who we admired all last season having backed him in 2009.

Lindsey Birtwell and Login Lucky Lad

“The team is joined by a new Small Hack/PBA/ Small intermediate, Tremarl Mr Mole who is showing huge talent and presence. These are owned by Michaela Wood and we are hoping they will be very successful in the ring.

“Alex Hollings is riding our homebred novice 148cm Show Pony Pendle Mattina and the section A, Synod Montanna while Alice Greenwood will take on the ride of the 153cm SHP, Midtown Magic.

Alexandra Hollings

“We are really looking forward to a very busy, yet exciting year ahead!”

Hannah and Team move up a League!

FOLLOWING a very consistent and successful 2010, team Supreme Products dressage rider Hannah Esberger-Shepherd shares her exciting news for the year ahead.

Says Hannah: “It is nice to feel the world is back to normal after such a difficult time with the bad weather and it is all systems go for a busy spring and summer season on the competition circuit.

“The year ahead is full of promise as I have some lovely horses to compete and some new youngsters to get underway.

“Rubin, is on course for PSG Small Tour, although he tweaked himself at Christmas so it has put him back a few weeks but we are very hopeful that he will be Grand Prix this year.

“Vanita is also ready for Small Tour a little later in the year - when he is confident the world is not so frightening he will be awesome and shows so much talent and promise for the big time.

“The lovely Welkom will be competing at Medium and Advanced Medium for the summer shows – he is another very exciting prospect who just continues to improve and get better with time.

“Belluga has gone up a whole gear this winter and he may another to compete at Small Tour level otherwise Advanced Medium.

“The three-year-old Coco is showing lovely movement and I really have a good feeling about him, so it will be nice to look forward to young horse classes with him.

“And wait for it - the big excitement is we are only 10 weeks away from a baby Totillas!!!!  Delphi (the mother by Dimaggio) is a beautiful mare and we have the champagne on ice and our fingers crossed.”

SUPREME PRODUCTS SUPPORTS EQUIFEST 2011

SUPREME Products, leaders in show ring preparation, are to sponsor a new championship at this year’s Equifest.

The NPS Home Produced Supreme Ridden Championship is a new innovation for 2011 and has been introduced to showcase hard working Home Producers and put them in the spotlight.

The sponsorship continues Supreme Products support for Home Producers and the team are delighted to be providing a host of prizes for this exciting new initiative.

The championship will see the winners of all the Home Produced Ridden Classes compete to win the coveted title, a basket of top class show preparation products from Supreme Products, as well as a horse or pony makeover with one of the Supreme Products sponsored show team.

Equifest 2011 takes place from August 18 to 21, with the NPS Home Produced Supreme Ridden Championship held as part of the Saturday evening performance.

Said Sarah Turnbull of Supreme Products: “We are delighted to be supporting the new NPS Home Produced Supreme Ridden Championship at Equifest.

“Equifest is now a major fixture on the showing calendar and we are very proud to be continuing to support Home Producers.”