Great Start at HOYS for SUPREME PRODUCTS® Team Riders

TEAM Supreme Products riders Robert Walker and Sarah Challinor were in winning form on the first day of the 2010 Horse of the Year Show.

Robert set the scene when heading the TopSpec Middleweight Show Hunter of the Year section with Jill Day’s beautifully turned out, seven-year-old bay gelding Pride and Joy. The young show horse was groomed to perfection with perfectly plaited mane and coat shining under the lights. All the hard work and show ring presentation products that had been used before the class truly provided a stunning finish.

Going through to the championship, held during the evening performance, Robert and PJ, as he is known at home, continued to impress the judges Chris McGrann and Kath Barley when going on to take the Show Hunter Championship to everyone’s delight.

Meanwhile in the Caldene Arena, Sarah Challinor and the seven-year-old stallion, Pumphill Buckthorn, owned by Mrs S Hughes, first won the Dartmoor, Exmoor and Shetland section of the Mace Group Mountain and Moorland Pony of the Year, before going on to stand champion to much excitement.

Success For Poppy at Area 5

Poppy Carter, from the Katy Carter Show Team, continued with the Supreme Products Team’s list of early season successes at the Area 5 show held at Arena UK.

Riding Robert and Sarah Walker’s four-year-old Mirabelle P on her debut outing, Poppy and the 12hh Show Hunter Pony were foot-perfect to take the honours in the RIHS Lead Rein Show Hunter Type class.

The pair then went on to take the Premier League Lead Rein Hunter Type section before rounding off the day by taking the Premier Championship, much to the delight of all connections and her sponsor’s Supreme Products.

Another pony from the Stoke on Trent yard, Chagford Leon, won the Open 128cm Show Pony class and then went on to be Reserve Champion with young Olivia Maltby on board.