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Issued May 2007

Champions Crowned at WCF easibed Dressage Championships

Cheshire-based Heather Morgan and Brasingaman Boy are the WCF Country Centres easibed Elementary Champions, scoring almost 69% at the championship fixture to collect the richest affiliated prize on the northern dressage circuit.

The nine-year-old Anglo Dutch gelding, already successful at medium level, produced a level test showing good balance and engagement to finish just three marks ahead of Reserve Champions Karen Jackson and her eight-year-old Marquis VI, who had travelled from Lancashire.

Just one mark in arrears, Chloe Harwood and Bingham’s Light Infantry took third place and the mare prize went to the Cumbrian combination of Susan Hinton-Smith and In The Pink VII, who were contesting only their third test at this level.

Hosted by Blackdyke Farm in Cumbria, these northern championships follow a series of qualifiers staged across the region and attract huge interest, so it was no surprise that 42 hopefuls started in the WCF Country Centres easibed Novice Championship.

With the two judges in agreement over their Champion, the very generous prizes went home to Lancashire with Lisa Marriot and Vanity Fair V, who deservedly scored more than 71% for a technically correct and very attractive performance, also claiming the mare prize at this level.

The Reserve Championship was claimed by Cumbrian instructor Terri Graham, who rode her home-bred and produced six-year-old mare Ten ‘O Ma, to produce a very ‘uphill’ picture with only occasional losses of balance, scoring over 69%. Katherine McKenna and Kerry Blue II took third with 68%.

The addition of an unaffiliated novice championship to the series proved very popular and in addition to prizes from WCF Country Centres and easibed, British Dressage provided annual memberships and horse registrations for the top three combinations, with a British Dressage Class ticket for all starters.

On home ground, Blackdyke Farm instructor Anne Linton rode owner John Collier’s event gelding Lowmoor Brooklyn to collect the Championship, having qualified him at the same venue earlier in the series.

Kim Nicols and Fergal took the Reserve Championship and Amanda Hatton finished third with Freeway.

More details are online at www.blackdykefarm.com

WCF easibed Winter Novice Championship at Blackdyke Farm

Right to Left - Ch, Vanity Fair V, Lisa Marriot, Res, Ten O May, Terri Graham, 3rd, Kerry Blue II, Katherine McKenna, pictured with WCF's Stuart Stamper and easibed's Jane Bell.

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