Famous Showjumpers of times gone by..

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Ahhh those were the days!

I remember watching Annette Lewis, how could anyone ever forget her "unique style"!

Unfortunately I cannot find any video but I wanted to post Marion Mould and Stroller, amazing combination!
 
Depp_by_Chocolate said:
Stroller was amazing, totally unique, no pony will ever match his success.
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:D Quite. That pony had springs.

Can you imagine if someone on here said they had a 14.1, or was he 14.2h? Whatever, and said they were competing on that kind of circuit nowadays?:eek:

Would he actually have been allowed to compete nowadays, is there a minimum height limit?:confused: Way out of touch with SJ.

I was just browsing through clips after watching the Ryans Son one and saw this, Tom Boy, Rodrigo Pessoa, what a jump!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JljBBBiMqcw&feature=related

Paddy McMahon, Pennwood Forgemill
Alwin Schockemohle
Tony Newbury, Warwick
and the wonderful Caroline Bradley with Marius
 
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Who remembers Ted Edgar and Uncle Max. Now there was a strong horse. Only time I've seen a showjumper wrap the reins round their hands. :eek:

Oh and vibart with the helicopter tail and bucks on landing. :D
 
I'm old enough to remember Pat Smythe, Wilf White, Harry Llewellyn, Dawn Palethorpe, a young Alan Oliver and David Broome . . . ah those were the days . . . showjumping live on primetime 9pm tv (I was allowed to get up and watch as a very special treat having gone to bed at my normal bedtime of 6.30!). . . . . horses ridden in snaffles with maybe the occasional dropped nosebands, not fearsome gadgets and ironmongery draped round their heads looking like medieval torture devices!
 
I'm old enough to remember Pat Smythe, Wilf White, Harry Llewellyn, Dawn Palethorpe, a young Alan Oliver and David Broome . . . ah those were the days .

Sadly, so am I. In my heyday it was Harvey Smith, Caroline Bradley, David broome, Peter Robeson and Derek Rickets was an up and coming young rider!
My claim to fame is that I was lucky enough to become friendly with Harvey Smith's groom at the time and used to help her at British Timken Show every year. She also sent me a postcard from Mexico (I think it was mexico) Olympics.
 
Thanks for that! enjoyed watching them. I am a bit later of the Milton, Midnight Madness, Otto, era. You can really see the difference in type as fashions have changed.

I really loved Apricot D, can't find a clip on youtube of him though. I think it was the Barcelona Olympics?
 
Maybe some of you SJ fans can help...when i was younger i had a book of pictures of a female showjumper who had won a cup (possible the queen elizabeth?) at white city. It was a picture book of her jumping and the horses included a grey and a bay with a big blaze but i can't remember who she was and have long since lost the book....

Any ideas who it may have been?
 
Was the picture book possibly of Pat Smythe. Wasn't Tosca a grey mare and the bay could of been Flannagan or Prince Hal. I believe White City was around the time Pat Smythe was competing. In the 60's when I started watching I think it had moved.
 
I can smuggly say that I dont remember any of them!! :D

But I do remember at quite a young age reading a book written by Harvey Smith. I think I must have been about 11/12 at the time, I dont think I understood most of it, but I do remember feeling very inspired.

I had just joined pony club, with my fat irish mare bought out of Melton Mowbray sales - the posh kids used to call her the thelwell, so I particularly enjoyed the parts where he talked about buying horses out of local markets, that really didnt look like much and making them into winners :)
 
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Was the picture book possibly of Pat Smythe. Wasn't Tosca a grey mare and the bay could of been Flannagan or Prince Hal. I believe White City was around the time Pat Smythe was competing. In the 60's when I started watching I think it had moved.
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I shall do some more googling and see if that looks familiar, thank you :)

I think she had a sister and the book may have been "my horses and I"....it was just a lot of pictures in a little hardback brown book....
 
JoG said:
Maybe some of you SJ fans can help...when i was younger i had a book of pictures of a female showjumper who had won a cup (possible the queen elizabeth?) at white city. It was a picture book of her jumping and the horses included a grey and a bay with a big blaze but i can't remember who she was and have long since lost the book....

Any ideas who it may have been?
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Caroline Bradley...?
 
Flanagan and Prince Hal were chestnuts :)

There are some shots of them (and Tosca) in colour on the Getty site, here and loads of films on Pathé News.

I'm too young for Pat but I grew up reading my mum's copies of her books and I went to her groom/right-hand woman Paula Sykes' riding school outside Norwich. Paula and Paddy (Pat's secretary) and Pat's daughters were kind enough to give me interviews when I was researching my book. Very lovely people, all of them, with nothing but nice things to say about Pat.
 
I didn't see any of them at the time. I just know about them from my mother. She was a huge fan of Stroller and Ryans son.

I just just about remember Milton being on the circuit.
 
JoG said:
Maybe some of you SJ fans can help...when i was younger i had a book of pictures of a female showjumper who had won a cup (possible the queen elizabeth?) at white city. It was a picture book of her jumping and the horses included a grey and a bay with a big blaze but i can't remember who she was and have long since lost the book....

Any ideas who it may have been?
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I think it would have been Pat and the bay with a blaze could possibly have been Scorchin. Otherwise, someone mentioned a sister so might have been the Palethorpes.

I remember all the oldies and being allowed to stroke Tosca and Hal's noses at Haringey; made my year!

Did anyone ever have one of those head scarves that had the four jumpers on it? Pat Smythe with Prince Hal, Dawn Palethorpe with Earlsworth Rambler were two, can't remember the others off hand and don't know where my scarf is. It just showed you how popular show jumping was back then as the scarf was available in regular shops, not just saddlers.

ETA: Having thought on it, I'm sure the other two were Harry Llewellyn with Foxhunter and Wilf White with Nizefela but stand to be corrected. Must see if I can find that scarf, it's an antique now!
 
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