Katy Carter in Top Form!

Team Katy Carter has continued its winning form from the start of the season with wins and championships across the board.

The Supreme Products sponsored team took three wins and a championship at their local show, Staffordshire County, and were even bigger winners at Kings Heath when Cassie Hartley and Classic Coincidence took the Reserve Supreme Championship.

Said Katy: “So far the season is going really well. I have a superb back up team who are experts when it comes to pulling manes and tails, plaiting ponies, bathing them and making sure they are spotless. This is all helped by the products that are supplied by Supreme Products and we are delighted to be working so closely with them.”

Major wins and championships include:

BSPS Area 4B:

Chagford Leon, 1st 128cm Show Pony, rider Olivia Maltby, owned by Alick and Louise Maltby

Rosedew Renoir, 1st and Reserve Champion, 133cm Show Hunter Pony, rider Olivia Maltby, owned by Maria Dent

BSPS Area 10:

Lowland Toy Soldier, 1st RIHS First Ridden Show Pony, rider Poppy Carter, owned by Jason Lindley

Woodend Matilda, 1st Mixed Height Open Show Hunter Pony, rider Poppy Cater, owned by Katy Carter

Classic Coincidence, 1st 158cm Show Riding Type, rider Cassie Hartley, owned by Black Country Saddles, Wendy and John Hartley


BSPS Area 2B:

Classic Coincidence, 1st 158cm Show Riding Type, rider Cassie Hartley, owned by Black Country Saddles, Wendy and John Hartley

Chagford Leon, Supreme of Show, 1st and Champion 128cm Novice Show Pony, 1st and Champion Premier League, rider Olivia Maltby, owned by Louise Maltby

Parkhill Beckham, 1st and Reserve Champion 133cm Show Hunter Pony, rider Charlotte Horne, owned by Sara Horne

Kings Heath:

Lowland Toy Soldier, Mini Champion First Ridden, rider Poppy Carter, owned by
Jason Lindley

Shamrock Shirley Temple, Mini Supreme Champion, rider Poppy Carter owned by Mrs Cartlidge

Woodend Matilda, 1st 122cm Show Hunter Pony, rider Poppy Carter, owned by Katy Carter

Cosford Glamour, 1st Mixed Novice Show Pony, rider Charlotte Horse, owned by Karen Sarling

Classic Coincidence, 1st and Champion Intermediate 158cm Show Riding Type, Reserve Supreme of Show, rider Cassie Hartley, owned by Black Country Saddles, Wendy and John Hartley

Staffordshire County

Mirabelle P, 1st Lead Rein Show Hunter Type, rider Sam Walker, owned by Robert and Sarah Walker

Lowland Shadowfax, 1st and Reserve Champion, rider Carlotte Dent, owned by Maria Dent

Lowland Toy Soldier, 1st and Mini Champion, rider Poppy Carter, owned by Jason Lindley

Busy Season for Team Hollings

Based in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, Team Hollings have had a busy start to the season. The team comprises of brothers Nigel and Stuart, Nigel’s wife Penny and their daughter Alexandra.
With a host of wins and championships under their belt, the team, sponsored by Supreme Products are now busy on the show circuit with the aim of qualifying for HOYS.

Major wins and championships include:

Midland Counties:

Dynamique - Novice SHP 1st. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

NPS Area 5:

Greylands Stardust, Champion SHP. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood, Qualified HOYS

Cardines M’Lord, HOYS SHP 122cm 1st. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Katie Ashcroft, Qualified HOYS

Pendle First Light, HOYS SHP 153cm 1st. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth, Qualfied HOYS

Hambleton:

The Pied Piper, RIHS BSPA 153cm N/T 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs S Wood, Rider Michaela Wood

Snaafi Bright Spark, RIHS BSPA NNP 1st. Owner Mrs S Wood, Rider Alex Hollings, Qualified RIHS

Wispa, RIHS BSPA N/T EX 153cm 1st. Owner Mrs W Ellis, Rider Samantha Ellis, Qualified RIHS

Lancashire Championships:

Crafton Touch of Gold, Champion RIHS Show Pony & PBA. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Fleetwater Xecutive, RIHS Small Int SRT 1st & Champion. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth

Greylands Stardust, Champion RIHS SHP. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider
Alice Greenwood

Ninfield Fable, Novice Show Pony 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs J Horsfall, Rider Alex Hollings

Dynamique, Novice 153cm SHP 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Cardines M’Lord, RIHS SHP 122cm 1st. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Katie Ashcroft

Pendle First Light, RIHS SHP 153cm 1st. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Georgia Butterworth

Shropshire Country Spring Show:

Crafton Touch of Gold, Champion RIHS Show Pony. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Greylands Stardust, Champion RIHS SHP. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Royal Angel, Champion RIHS Hack. Owner Mrs Wood, Rider Michaela Wood

Lincolnshire Spring Show:

Pendle First Light, RIHS SHP 1st & Champion,Premier League SHP 1st & Champion. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth

Crafton Touch of Gold, Champion RIHS Part Bred Arab 2nd & Reserve Champion RIHS Show Pony. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Fleetwater Xecutive, RIHS Small Int SRT 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth

Whittaker’s Count, Novice Int SH 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs S Wood, Rider Chelsea Foster

White Rose County:

Pendle First Light, Premier League SHP 1st & Champion & Reserve Supreme. Owner Mrs E Butterworth's Pendle First Light, Rider Georgia Butterworth

The Pied Piper, BSPA 153cm 1st & Champion. Owner Mrs S Wood, Rider Michaela Wood

Ninfield Fable, RIHS PBA 1st & Champion & 1st Novice Show Pony. Owner Mrs J Horsfall, Rider Alex Hollings

Fleetwater Xecutive, RIHS Small Int SRT 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth

Cheshire Premier:

Ninfield Fable, RIHS PBA 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs J Horsfall, Rider Alex Hollings

BSPS Area 1B:

Royal Angel, Reserve Supreme, 1st & Champion RIHS Intermediate & 1st RIHS Large Hack & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs S Wood, Rider Michaela Wood

Greylands Stardust, Champion RIHS SHP. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Cardines M'Lord, 1st RIHS SHP 122cm. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Katie Ashcrot

BSPS Area 5:

Crafton Touch of Gold, RIHS Part Bred Arab 1st & Champion. Owner
Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Chelsea Foster

Royal Angel, RIHS Intermediate 1st & Reserve Champion. Owner Mrs S Wood, Rider Michaela Wood

Fleetwater Xecutive, RIHS Small Int SRT 1st. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth

Ninfield Fable, Novice Show Pony 1st. Owner Team Hollings, Rider Alex Hollings

Thirkleby Beluka, 1st RIHS Part Bred Arab ex 148 1st. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth

North Eastern Counties:

Greylands Stardust, Champion RIHS SHP. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Crafton Touch of Gold, Reserve Champion RIHS Show Pony. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

NCPA Lancs Spring:

Crafton Touch of Gold, Champion Show Pony & Reserve Supreme.
Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Greylands Stardust, Champion SHP. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

Ninfield Fable,1st Novice Show Pony, 1st 138cm & Reserve Champion. Owner
Mrs J Horsfall, Rider Alex Hollings.

Dynamique, 1st Mixed Novice SHP. Owner Mrs L Fitzgerald, Rider Alice Greenwood

BSPS Area 3A:

Royal Angel, 1st Large Int SRT & Champion. Owner Mrs S Wood, Rider Michaela Wood

Pendle First Light, 1st 153cm SHP & Champion. Owner Mrs E Butterworth, Rider Georgia Butterworth

'The Team have had an excellent start to the season and have been incredibly busy,' says Sarah Turnbull of Supreme Products. 'We are delighted to be supporting the team and supplying them with show ring products such as our range of hoof paints; Plaiting Spray and Mane and Tail Detangler amongst others. We see the team and their horses and ponies at shows week in, week out through the season and they always look immaculate.'

How to Get the Best out of Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener

Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener is the perfect product to quickly and easily brighten up dull or dirty patches that should be white and produce really white socks - a favourite for competitors at horse shows! Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener can be used both wet or dry to bring up white patches, legs and bodies on horses. Everyone has a preferred way of applying their favourite showing product and the ritual never changes for applying it from event to event, but there is always more than one way to apply these products. This guide to Supreme Product’s Leg & Body Whitener shows some of the ways that this product can be used.

1) You can add Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener to your final rinsing water whilst bathing your horse. This helps to brighten the white on the body adding that final ‘clean’ shine. It also makes dappling and markings more significant.

2) Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener can be mixed with water to a make a paste. Most people mix until the paste is of a yoghurt consistency. Apply the paste with a paint brush and then bandage the legs up whilst they are still wet and leave on the legs until just before your event. You don’t need to do anything after removing the bandages. However gently brushing the excess dust/powder off can help to smarten them up.

Another tip is to use thick gamgees (bandage pads). By using thin gamgees or just plain bandages ‘wrinkle’ marks are sometimes left on the dry legs.

3) You can use Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener in dry form on wet legs – this time wash the legs but just get off the excess water; then again using a brush, work in the dry powder onto the wet legs and bandage as above.

4) Sometimes just a quick touch up is needed; maybe just before a class or event. To do this place some Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener on a slightly damp sponge and dab and rub into the legs or spots you need to ‘touch up’ or brighten. Make sure the sponge isn’t too damp as you don’t want to have problems with the product dripping!

5) Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener can also be rubbed straight into the legs of your horse. This is great for hiding stains or just brightening up the horses white patches, then brushing the excess powder gently off the legs will help make it all neat.

• Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener is available in 3 sizes 1 Kg; 2.5Kg and 5 Kg and prices start at £11.95 (Prices correct for Spring 2010).

Supreme Products also sell many other stain removing products, including

- Supreme Products Stain Remover Shampoo, for the older more stubborn stains.

- Supreme Products Cover Magic, a last minute spray to cover small spots, stray coloured coat

hairs and marks or scars. Available in White, Black or Brown.

- Supreme Products Blue Shampoo, to brighten up whites and greys; working extremely well with coloureds.

Supreme Products Professional Collection – The Choice of Champions.

Article kindly written for Supreme Products by freelance journalist, Theresa Bebbington

Interview with Hannah Roulston from Emmersons Show Team

Stokesley-based Emmersons Show Team, sponsored by Supreme Products, are having a very successful 2010. Here we find out more about their groom Hannah Roulston.

1. How long have you been a groom?

I have groomed for three and a half years, and the last two and a half of those I have been with Emmersons Show Team.

2. What is your favourite TV programme?

Lost – I am sad that it has now finished!

3. Do you have any brothers or sisters?

One brother

4. What is your favourite food?

Any type of seafood – but especially Lobster!

5. Where is your favourite holiday destination?

Cancun in Mexico

6. Who is your favourite horse or pony on the yard and why?

I’m not supposed to have favourites! But Prince – because he is the first pony that I broke in and he has a lovely character – he is my best friend! His show name is Rosemel Dark Prince.

7. What is your favourite event?

The Ponies UK Summer Championship at the Newark and Nottinghamshire showground.

8. What is your favourite item from the Supreme Products Professional Collection?

I love Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener.

9. Do you have a top tip for us?

Mix Supreme Products Leg & Body Whitener into a paste, then paint it on to the pony’s legs the night before. Put bandages over the top, then in the morning when you remove the bandages and - hey presto! Your pony will have spotless white legs.

Supreme Products Makeover Winner Qualifies for Equestrian Life Championship

Suprene Products makeover winners Yvonne Fisher and Alamandos Star have hit great form since winning a day with top showman Robert Walker.

Yvonne and Bruce, as he is known at home travelled to Robert’s yard in Cheshire, with her sister Lorraine Fisher who owns the heavyweight, bay gelding.

Their newly learned skills were put to the test at Tickhill Riding Club show, where they took part in the Equestrian Life qualifier and took the red rosette, to a big round of applause.

Having picked up some top tips from the showing maestro Yvonne and Bruce looked immaculate to wow the judges.

Said Lorraine: “Bruce looked brilliant and Yvonne rode him really well. They have been practising the extended canter and he looked fantastic. It was the best I have ever seen her ride him.”

More Success for Robert at Windsor

Robert Walker’s great start at the Royal Windsor Horse Show continued in the Maxi Cob class on the final day.

The Supreme Products sponsored rider took the honours with Tank Top, heading a strong field.

Tank Top is in his second season in the competition arena and is owned by Yorkie Jobling Purser.

Meanwhile in Shropshire, at Area 10, Supersonic continued Robert’s winning ways in the cob sections when taking the Maxi Cob class.

Emmersons Show Team on Supreme Form!

The Supreme Products sponsored Emmersons Show Team from Stokesley have been busy travelling the circuit and producing some top results.

Lead Rein pony Chaseford Aloof, owned by Johanna Prendergast and ridden by Ella Reynard won the Lead Rein and Mini Championship at Ayr County, qualifying for the Royal International Horse Show.

The 11-year-old mare also clinched her HOYS ticket at the BSPS Winter Championships when they were first in the Lead Rein.

The yard’s form continued with another Royal International Horse Show ticket in the Lead Rein Show Hunter class at BSPS Area 1B with Abbie Farmer riding the five-year-old Cham Secret Legend by the Yorkshire based Lechlade Quince.

At the White Rose County show in Leeds it was a win for Sarah Emmerson when she rode Chiddock Time Out to win the Anglo/Part-bred Arabs to also qualify for RIHS.