HOYS 60th Anniversary this Year? Was it right?

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Just wanted to confirm. Was it HOYS 60th Anniversary this year? It's just that I am sure it was the 60th, but my mum won the first Horse and Hound Cup at Horse of the Year Show at Harringay, but that year was 1949. She even dug her trophy out to make sure she had got the date right and it was 1949. She swears this was the first ever Horse of the Year show. So can anyone confirm whether or not they have got their 60th anniversary wrong?! Thanks
 
I think if the first show was in 1949, then that would be correct.

Not sure if my maths is appauling, but that means in 1950 it would have been the 2nd show, 1951 3rd show...1958 10th show, therefore 2008 would be 60th show?

I hope that makes sense, and i do stand to be corrected as my maths isn't feeling great this time in the morning!!
 
You are right. Thanks so much for that, I can put her mind at rest. I think she was thinking she was going mad!
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Well i was entered at HOYS this year and it was every where that it was their 60th Anniversary. So unless they got it wrong then yes it was their 60th Anniversary
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In a book called They've Won Their Spurs, talking about Pat Smythe it says -

"It was also on Finality in 1948 that in the first Horse of the Year Shows at Harringey she became Leading Show Jumper of The Year"

It was also the year I was born so I remember useless bits of information like that!

Your Mum must have been an idol of mine! I loved showjumping then and read everything about it I could. What an achievement for her.
Dug it out.............................how could you not have something like that proudly displayed? Mind, I had to rescue all of Nizefella's Olympic rugs and hundreds of rosettes and HOYS and White City plaques out of the hayloft otherwise they would all have been moth eaten!
 
My mum is Gene Whewell, she was on Spring Meeting. She was married to Alan Oliver.

She literally did dig it out! She has nothing whatsoever to do with horses anymore. I think it is quite sad. I have pictures of her in my house though riding and with her trophies!

Mind you she has got a soft spot for my old boy and regularly buys him apples!
 
Did you have a connection with Nizefella then Pat, I used to love that horse !

ETS. I never saw him in the flesh but my Mum was a big fan and had seen him jump locally, and he was in a lot of her/my old horsey books.
 
Only in that I worked for Wilf and his wife for a couple of showing seasons and Fella was in retirement there too. He was a lovely old horse to deal with (as Wild was too!) and had a mare that was stabled with him as companion, they never let either out of sight! When he died (well after I left) he was buried in the garden there and a few years later, they went to live in the Isle of Man; he's still in the garden though as far as I know. I still have a White City and Harringey plaque of his and a couple of AIT rosettes too.
He was always my Dad's favourite too, he was chuffed to bits to actually meet him too after just worshipping from the ringside.
 
I have to admit my mind has drawn a blank but it was a long time ago now! She must have some great memories though.

Co incidentally, when working for Wilf and we did the Royal, I used to stay in AO's wagon, they were big mates!
 
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yeah at my age I prob should be in a museum!

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only if you're on a big shiny marble pedestal, with a sign saying "person of historical note"
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Cheers hun!
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