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I am hoping this is not seen as any form of advertising by HHO since the exact same report has been sent to them as an editorial, I apologise if it is seen as such......but have had several people asking about how the gradings were for this year:
THE ANNUAL SCOTTISH SPORTS HORSE MARE AND YOUNGSTOCK GRADINGS TOOK PLACE OVER FIVE DAYS FROM THE 26TH SEPTEMBER STARTING FROM THE BORDERS, ALL THE WAY TO ABERDEENSHIRE, COVERING 978 MILES.
THIS YEAR SAW NEW JUDGES IN THE SHAPE OF MR JOS VAN DER WAL AND MR GERT TEUNISSEN FROM THE NRPS IN HOLLAND, THIS BEING THEIR FIRST TRIP TO SCOTLAND. BOTH THESE JUDGES ARE JURY MEMBERS OF THE MARE AND STALLION INSPECTIONS IN HOLLAND, WITH THE FORMER, MR VAN DER WAL BEING THE PRESIDENT OF THE STALLION COMMISSION. ALSO INVITED OVER WAS MS BRIGITTA LAARSON, AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED JUDGE, AND HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE FLYINGE INTERNATIONAL DRESSAGE SHOW. BRIGITTA HAS VISITED SCOTLAND BEFORE TO JUDGE AT THE NORTH O THE BORDER FOAL SHOW.
SOME 145 HORSES WERE PRESENTED AT 13 DIFFERENT VENUES, ALMOST 17% UP ON LAST YEARS FIGURES. 51 OF THE HORSES PRESENTED WERE AWARDED THE COVETED 1ST PREMIUM, AND SEVERAL MARES WERE AWARDED THE STER, KEUR, MODEL AND SPORT PREDICATES. OVERALL MARKS WERE UP ON LAST YEAR AND SAW 14 HORSES AND YOUNGSTOCK BEING AWARDED MARKS OF 80 AND ABOVE, COMPARED TO JUST 3 IN 2006.
BREEDING MARES
IN THE BROODMARE CLASSES THE PREVIOUSLY LICENSED SSH STALLION JURIUS, BY NIMMERDOR, AND SIRE OF HELEN TREDWELLS GREAT JUMPING MARE OPPORTUNITY B, HAD SOME VERY SUCCESSFUL DAUGHTERS. OUTBURST B, OUT OF AN EDISON MARE ACHIEVED THE KEUR AND SPORT PREDICATES FOR HER OWNER ANNE BROWNIE OF DOCKENWELLS. THIS MARE HAS COMPETED UP TO 1.30M AND HAS ALSO BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL ROUND THE SHOW GROUNDS THIS YEAR WINNING SEVERAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. FOLLOWING OUTBURST WAS VIENNA (JURIUS X VERS II) ACHIEVING KEUR OWNED BY TAMSIN CRAIGIE, THE MORAYFIRTH SPORTSHORSE STUDS OCTAVIA B (JURIUS X PURIOSO II) GAINING HER MODEL AWARD, THIS BEING A NEW AWARD FOR MARES WHO HAVE PRODUCED A MINIMUM OF THREE 1ST PREMIUM FOALS. LASTLY POLO B (JURIUS X BELISAR) GAINING HER STER PREDICATE FOR WENDY FERGUSON AT LINTON HOUSE.
THE APPROVED SSH STALLION GOLDHILLS ALSO PRODUCED SEVERAL STER MARES FOR OWNER AND BREEDER MR JOHN DUNLOP OF DORNOCK MAINS. GOLDEN ORB SCORED 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER AND ALSO ACHIEVED 77 FOR HER JUMP, SHE IS OUT OF AN OBERON MARE. ANOTHER BY GOLD HILLS SCORED WELL; GYPSY GOLD OUT OF A MARE BY HIS OWN LICENSED STALLION HOCKI. BESIDES THESE TWO WAS THE CRUSING MARE DESERT HILLS ALSO RECEIVING HER STER AWARD, OUT OF A MARE BY GOLDHILLS, ACHIEVING A SCORE OF 80 FOR HER JUMPING ABILITY.
A MARE BY THE YOUNG INTERNATIONAL JUMPING STALLION CRUISINGS MICKEY FINN ALSO SCORED 80 FOR JUMP. ARDENCAPLE COLLOSSEUM SHOWED HER EXCEPTIONAL TALENT FOR JUMPING AND IS OWNED BY WILMA COLLIER. MICKEY FINN IS A LISTED STALLION WITH THE SSH AND IS JUMPED VERY SUCCESSFULLY BY JOHN WHITTAKER.
THE SSH LOOSE JUMPING CHAMPION OF 2007, ZORETTE BY INDORADO, OWNED AND BRED BY DUGALD AND JACKIE LOW MITCHELL ACHIEVED THE HIGHEST JUMPING SCORE OF 86 AND WAS AWARDED HER 1ST PREMIUM, JUST NARROWLY MISSING HER STER AWARD BY 1 POINT. THIS MARE RECEIVED EXCEPTIONAL COMMENTS FOR HER JUMP AND IS CERTAINLY ONE TO WATCH FOR IN THE FUTURE.
ANOTHER TO SCORE HIGHLY WAS THE STER AWARDED MARE ZERA FOR ROSALYN SEREX AND CAROLINE PATRICK OF RASS STUD. THIS MARE IS BY THE KWPN SIRE FURORE AND THE STUDS OWN MARE PRIJA BY GOODTIMES. THIS MARE SCORED 80 FOR WALK AND TROT AND 77 FOR HER JUMPING ABILITY. SHE WAS ANOTHER WHO IMPRESSED THE JUDGES AT THE RECENT SSH LOOSE JUMPING CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THE BAVARIAN MARE LUELLA SCORED WELL WITH THE JUDGES AT THE RIPE AGE OF 17. THIS MARE LOOKED IN EXCELLENT FORM AND DID HER OWNER EVELYN WILSON VERY PROUD, ACHIEVING SCORES OF 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER AND EARNING HERSELF THE STER PREDICATE. SHE IS BY THE BAVARIAN STALLION KATARACT OUT OF A DUPLIKAT MARE.
FOALS AND YOUNGSTOCK
HIGHEST MARKED HORSE OVER THE FIVE DAYS WAS MORAYFIRTH SPORTSHORSE STUDS COLT FOAL, MFS CASINO ROYAL.THIS STUNNING BLACK COLT WAS AWARDED A NEW TOP SCORE OF 90 FOR CONFORMATION AND ALSO ACHIEVED 80 FOR HIS TROT AND CANTER. SIRED BY THE STUDS DECEASED DRESSAGE STALLION ROYAL GENEVE. THIS BLACK BEAUTY WILL BE HEADING TO HIS NEW HOME IN ENGLAND IN NOVEMBER, WHERE HE WILL BE RETAINED AS A FUTURE BREEDING PROSPECT. BESIDES CASINO, ANOTHER OF THE ROYAL GENEVE OFFSPRING DID WELL, THE HANDSOME BAY YEARLING COLT MFS BROYAL ALSO RECEIVING A 1ST PREMIUM FOR HIS SIRE AND OUT OF THE MODEL AWARDED MARE OCTAVIA B BY JURIUS.
MORAYFIRTH STUDS SUCCESS REMAINED WHEN THEIR YOUNG SIRE MFS VISION PRODUCED SEVERAL 1ST PREMIUM FOALS, INCLUDING THE VERY ACTIVE MOVING FILLY, MFS CASSANDRA, OUT OF A SANDRO HIT MARE, SCORING A MARK OF 90 FOR HER TROT AND 80 FOR HER CANTER, MAKING HER THE HIGHEST MARKED HORSE OVERALL FOR MOVEMENT. ANOTHER HEAD TURNER BY THIS STALLION WAS THE STRIKING COLOURED COLT FOAL, COLOURED VISION OWNED AND BRED BY LESLEY CAMPBELL AND RON AITKEN OF GRAINHOWE, WHO ACHIEVED 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND CANTER. THIS COLT IS OUT OF A DIXI MARE WHO IS CLOSELY RELATED TO BASIL MASTERPIECE. DEBBIE MURRAY FROM NEWMACHAR ALSO SCORED WELL WITH HER BIG MOVING BAY COLT FOAL BY MFS VISION OUT OF A MARE BY JAPPALOUPE S. THE APPTLY NAMED PERFECT VISION EARNED HIMSELF 80 FOR TROT AND ALSO RECEIVED HIS 1ST PREMIUM.
SEVERAL OTHER SSH SIRES THAT CAME OUT ON TOP WITH 1ST PREMIUM HORSES INCLUDED THE JUMPING STALLION OTIS, OWNED BY HARRY AIRD AND SIRE OF THE CHAMPION FOAL AT THE 2006 NORTH O THE BORDER FOAL SHOW. THE BEAUTIFUL COLOURED FILLY BOGTON BELLE OWNED BY PAMELA KERR AND JANICE MCDONALD SCORED 83 FOR CONFORMATION AND 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER, MAKING HER THE SECOND HIGHEST MARKED FOAL FOR 2007.
BRAEFACE STUDS LICENSED STALLION WOOSTER AND APPROVED STALLION ALLROUND ACHIEVED MARVELLOUS SCORES WITH THEIR YOUNGSTOCK, THE WOOSTER COLT CHARLIE L RECEIVING 80 FOR CONFORMATION FOR OWNER WENDY FERGUSON AND CELEBRITY BE ATTAINING 85 FOR THE SAME BY ALLROUND FOR ANNE BROWNIE.
THE LISTED SIRE DE NERO BY NEGRO, OWNED BY LYNN AND MIKE MURRAY FROM SADDLERS MEWS, AND CURRENTLY COMPETING IN YOUNG HORSE DRESSAGE CLASSES IN GERMANY SIRED A EXQUISITE BLACK FILLY CHABLIS OUT OF THEIR FOUNDATION MARE SULIEKA BY SANTA KLAUS. THIS FILLY WENT ON TO RECEIVE 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND TROT.
PINNOCCHIO MIDDELSOM, THE LISTED LEOPARD SPOTTED STALLION OWNED BY ANNABEL AND JOHN FIRMIN DID WELL FOR HIS FIRST SEASON, WITH THEIR OWN HOMEBRED FILLY BLACKLAW PHOENIX RECEIVING 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER.
THE THOROUGHBRED INFLUENCE WAS SHINING THROUGH WITH THE LISTED STALLION SPARTAN HEIGHTS WHOS STOCK ARE DOING WELL IN SHOWING AND EVENTING, OWNED BY ALEX MIDLER AT CRAIGMANCIE STUD IN ABERDEENSHIRE. HIS COLT FOAL HARRISON HEIGHTS OWNED AND BRED BY GEORGE MITCHELL OUT OF A BROADSTONE WEST COUNTRY MARE ALSO ACHIEVED 80 FOR CONFORMATION.
ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GRADING HAD TO BE THE HANDSOME ORPHANED COLT FOAL GRANDOR LEGACY BY THE RECENTLY DECEASED REGISTERED STALLION THE DO RON, OWNED BY NANCY BELL. NOT ONLY DID THIS FOAL ACHIEVE HIS 1ST PREMIUM AWARD BUT HE BROUGHT A WELCOME SMILE TO MANY IN THE ARENA WHEN PRESENTED WITH HIS SURROGATE MOTHER, A SMALL BLACK SHETLAND PONY. ANOTHER DO RON TO COME OUT WITH A 1ST PREMIUM WAS MARTIN SHEACHS FILLY DO-RON DIAMOND LASS BY A MARE BY COEVERS DIAMOND BOY. THIS MARE COEVERS DIAMOND LASS ALSO ATTAINED THE STER PREDICATE IN THE MARE CLASS, SCORING 78 FOR HER JUMP.
PONIES
PONIES ALSO CAME TO THE FORE, WHEN ONE OF THE HIGHEST MARKED HORSES OF THE DAY CAME FROM THE YEARLING COLT, NORTHVIEW FAERIE PRINCE OWNED AND SHOWN BY CARYL MILLER OF PETERCULTER, ABERDEEN. BY BURNSIDE GARNET THISFREE MOVING YEARLING SCORED 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND TROT. DUGALD AND JACKIE LOW MITCHELL OF BALCORMO STUD HAD AN ELEGANT COLT FOAL BY THE PONY STALLION WHALTON CARUSO, A TOP 12.2HH OWNED BY JANE DAWSON WHO IS WELL KNOWN FOR BEING A BREEDER AND PRODUCER OF RIDING PONIES, OUT OF A SECUNDUS MARE, SCORING 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER. LASTLY SCHOLLAND EQUESTRIAN PRODUCED A VERY NICE COLLECTION OF PONIES, WITH SEVERAL ATTAINING THE 1ST PREMIUM AWARD, INCLUDING THOSE BY THEIR STRIKING REGISTERED SSH PONY STALLION RUSHIEFAULD HAVANNA.
NON SSH STALLIONS
HORSES IMPRESSING THE JUDGES BY NON SSH STALLIONS INCLUDED THE IMPRESSIVE COLT FOAL SHUREFLY OWNED AND BRED BY JOHN JAMIESON OF KIRKMUIRHILL. HE WAS MARKED WITH 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND CANTER, WITH 77 FOR HIS TROT. HE IS BY SIR SHUTTERFLY WHO IS FULL BROTHER TO THE INTERNATIONAL JUMPING HORSE SHUTTERFLY AND OUT OF A TORNADO FCS MARE. IT WAS A VERY GOOD GRADING FOR JOHN JAMIESON WITH SEVERAL OF HIS HOMEBRED OFFSPRING ACHIEVING 1ST PREMIUMS.
THE FINAL HORSE TO SCORE A TOP MARK OF 90 DURING THE FIVE DAYS WAS RASS STUDS LIGHT FOOTED YEARLING FILLY, BRAZILIAN LAMBADA. THIS STUNNING FILLY SHOWED A POLISHED PERFORMANCE TO SCORE 90 FOR HER TROT AND 80 FOR HER CANTER. SHE IS BY INTERNATIONAL DRESSAGE STALLION GRIBALDI OUT OF THE SAME DAM WHO PRODUCED THE STER AWARDED MARE ZERA.
THE GOOD MOVING HEARTBREAKER FILLY MFS CORINA-BELLA, ANOTHER BRED BY MORAYFIRTH STUD ALSO ACHIEVED MARKS OF 80 FOR WALK AND CANTER, WITH AN OVERALL SCORE OF 77 FOR MOVEMENT. SHE IS OUT OF A YOUNG MARE BY THE JUMPING STALLION HOLLAND.
MKM SPORTSHORSE STUD WAS WELL REPRESENTED WITH THE FILLES SKYE MKM BY SUNNY BOY OUT OF A RUBINSTEIN DAM SCORING 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND TROT, WHILE SAPPHIRE MKM BY DRESSAGE SIRE ST MORITZ AND ALSO OUT OF A DAM BY THE LEGENDARY RUBINSTEIN PRODUCING THE FANTASTIC SCORES OF 85 FOR TROT AND 80 FOR CANTER. PROUD OWNER OF THESE TWO ELEGANT AND DELIGHTFUL FILLES WAS ELIZABETH SMITH OF SOUTHFIELD, AIRTH.
ANOTHER JUMPING BRED MARE THAT DID WELL WAS THE 3 YEAR OLD ZORANA BY JUMPING STALLION ODERMUS R, SHE SCORED 80 FOR HER TROT AND EARNED HERSELF A 1ST PREMIUM FOR HER OWNER MELANIE MCGHEE.
FOALS BY THE HOLSTEIN STALLION QUITE EASY BRED BY BALCORMO STUD WERE ALSO SCORING WELL WITH THE JUDGES. THE FILLY COME EASY OUT OF A GLENRIDGE MARE SCORED 80 FOR HER CANTER, WHILE THE COLT FOAL CA CANNY OUT OF A DRAMIRO MARE SCORED 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER .WITH BOTH GAINING THEIR 1ST PREMIUMS ON HOME GROUND.
FINALLY THE ARGENTINIAN BRED STALLION LC NAPENAY SHOWED A VERY GOOD FIRST FOAL CROP IN SCOTLAND. THIS 14 YEAR OLD COMPETED AT INTERNATIONAL SHOWJUMPING IN BOTH ARGENTINE AND BRITAIN AND IS JOINTLY OWNED BY ALWYN MACLEAN AND STEVEN MONAGHAM IN FIFE. THE FOALS CHIPMUNK AND CHINOOK BRED BY BALCORMO STUD TOOK THE HONOURS FOR THEIR SIRE IN 1ST PREMIUMS, BOTH ACHIEVING 80 FOR THEIR TROT.
THE ANNUAL SCOTTISH SPORTS HORSE MARE AND YOUNGSTOCK GRADINGS TOOK PLACE OVER FIVE DAYS FROM THE 26TH SEPTEMBER STARTING FROM THE BORDERS, ALL THE WAY TO ABERDEENSHIRE, COVERING 978 MILES.
THIS YEAR SAW NEW JUDGES IN THE SHAPE OF MR JOS VAN DER WAL AND MR GERT TEUNISSEN FROM THE NRPS IN HOLLAND, THIS BEING THEIR FIRST TRIP TO SCOTLAND. BOTH THESE JUDGES ARE JURY MEMBERS OF THE MARE AND STALLION INSPECTIONS IN HOLLAND, WITH THE FORMER, MR VAN DER WAL BEING THE PRESIDENT OF THE STALLION COMMISSION. ALSO INVITED OVER WAS MS BRIGITTA LAARSON, AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED JUDGE, AND HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE FLYINGE INTERNATIONAL DRESSAGE SHOW. BRIGITTA HAS VISITED SCOTLAND BEFORE TO JUDGE AT THE NORTH O THE BORDER FOAL SHOW.
SOME 145 HORSES WERE PRESENTED AT 13 DIFFERENT VENUES, ALMOST 17% UP ON LAST YEARS FIGURES. 51 OF THE HORSES PRESENTED WERE AWARDED THE COVETED 1ST PREMIUM, AND SEVERAL MARES WERE AWARDED THE STER, KEUR, MODEL AND SPORT PREDICATES. OVERALL MARKS WERE UP ON LAST YEAR AND SAW 14 HORSES AND YOUNGSTOCK BEING AWARDED MARKS OF 80 AND ABOVE, COMPARED TO JUST 3 IN 2006.
BREEDING MARES
IN THE BROODMARE CLASSES THE PREVIOUSLY LICENSED SSH STALLION JURIUS, BY NIMMERDOR, AND SIRE OF HELEN TREDWELLS GREAT JUMPING MARE OPPORTUNITY B, HAD SOME VERY SUCCESSFUL DAUGHTERS. OUTBURST B, OUT OF AN EDISON MARE ACHIEVED THE KEUR AND SPORT PREDICATES FOR HER OWNER ANNE BROWNIE OF DOCKENWELLS. THIS MARE HAS COMPETED UP TO 1.30M AND HAS ALSO BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL ROUND THE SHOW GROUNDS THIS YEAR WINNING SEVERAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. FOLLOWING OUTBURST WAS VIENNA (JURIUS X VERS II) ACHIEVING KEUR OWNED BY TAMSIN CRAIGIE, THE MORAYFIRTH SPORTSHORSE STUDS OCTAVIA B (JURIUS X PURIOSO II) GAINING HER MODEL AWARD, THIS BEING A NEW AWARD FOR MARES WHO HAVE PRODUCED A MINIMUM OF THREE 1ST PREMIUM FOALS. LASTLY POLO B (JURIUS X BELISAR) GAINING HER STER PREDICATE FOR WENDY FERGUSON AT LINTON HOUSE.
THE APPROVED SSH STALLION GOLDHILLS ALSO PRODUCED SEVERAL STER MARES FOR OWNER AND BREEDER MR JOHN DUNLOP OF DORNOCK MAINS. GOLDEN ORB SCORED 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER AND ALSO ACHIEVED 77 FOR HER JUMP, SHE IS OUT OF AN OBERON MARE. ANOTHER BY GOLD HILLS SCORED WELL; GYPSY GOLD OUT OF A MARE BY HIS OWN LICENSED STALLION HOCKI. BESIDES THESE TWO WAS THE CRUSING MARE DESERT HILLS ALSO RECEIVING HER STER AWARD, OUT OF A MARE BY GOLDHILLS, ACHIEVING A SCORE OF 80 FOR HER JUMPING ABILITY.
A MARE BY THE YOUNG INTERNATIONAL JUMPING STALLION CRUISINGS MICKEY FINN ALSO SCORED 80 FOR JUMP. ARDENCAPLE COLLOSSEUM SHOWED HER EXCEPTIONAL TALENT FOR JUMPING AND IS OWNED BY WILMA COLLIER. MICKEY FINN IS A LISTED STALLION WITH THE SSH AND IS JUMPED VERY SUCCESSFULLY BY JOHN WHITTAKER.
THE SSH LOOSE JUMPING CHAMPION OF 2007, ZORETTE BY INDORADO, OWNED AND BRED BY DUGALD AND JACKIE LOW MITCHELL ACHIEVED THE HIGHEST JUMPING SCORE OF 86 AND WAS AWARDED HER 1ST PREMIUM, JUST NARROWLY MISSING HER STER AWARD BY 1 POINT. THIS MARE RECEIVED EXCEPTIONAL COMMENTS FOR HER JUMP AND IS CERTAINLY ONE TO WATCH FOR IN THE FUTURE.
ANOTHER TO SCORE HIGHLY WAS THE STER AWARDED MARE ZERA FOR ROSALYN SEREX AND CAROLINE PATRICK OF RASS STUD. THIS MARE IS BY THE KWPN SIRE FURORE AND THE STUDS OWN MARE PRIJA BY GOODTIMES. THIS MARE SCORED 80 FOR WALK AND TROT AND 77 FOR HER JUMPING ABILITY. SHE WAS ANOTHER WHO IMPRESSED THE JUDGES AT THE RECENT SSH LOOSE JUMPING CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THE BAVARIAN MARE LUELLA SCORED WELL WITH THE JUDGES AT THE RIPE AGE OF 17. THIS MARE LOOKED IN EXCELLENT FORM AND DID HER OWNER EVELYN WILSON VERY PROUD, ACHIEVING SCORES OF 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER AND EARNING HERSELF THE STER PREDICATE. SHE IS BY THE BAVARIAN STALLION KATARACT OUT OF A DUPLIKAT MARE.
FOALS AND YOUNGSTOCK
HIGHEST MARKED HORSE OVER THE FIVE DAYS WAS MORAYFIRTH SPORTSHORSE STUDS COLT FOAL, MFS CASINO ROYAL.THIS STUNNING BLACK COLT WAS AWARDED A NEW TOP SCORE OF 90 FOR CONFORMATION AND ALSO ACHIEVED 80 FOR HIS TROT AND CANTER. SIRED BY THE STUDS DECEASED DRESSAGE STALLION ROYAL GENEVE. THIS BLACK BEAUTY WILL BE HEADING TO HIS NEW HOME IN ENGLAND IN NOVEMBER, WHERE HE WILL BE RETAINED AS A FUTURE BREEDING PROSPECT. BESIDES CASINO, ANOTHER OF THE ROYAL GENEVE OFFSPRING DID WELL, THE HANDSOME BAY YEARLING COLT MFS BROYAL ALSO RECEIVING A 1ST PREMIUM FOR HIS SIRE AND OUT OF THE MODEL AWARDED MARE OCTAVIA B BY JURIUS.
MORAYFIRTH STUDS SUCCESS REMAINED WHEN THEIR YOUNG SIRE MFS VISION PRODUCED SEVERAL 1ST PREMIUM FOALS, INCLUDING THE VERY ACTIVE MOVING FILLY, MFS CASSANDRA, OUT OF A SANDRO HIT MARE, SCORING A MARK OF 90 FOR HER TROT AND 80 FOR HER CANTER, MAKING HER THE HIGHEST MARKED HORSE OVERALL FOR MOVEMENT. ANOTHER HEAD TURNER BY THIS STALLION WAS THE STRIKING COLOURED COLT FOAL, COLOURED VISION OWNED AND BRED BY LESLEY CAMPBELL AND RON AITKEN OF GRAINHOWE, WHO ACHIEVED 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND CANTER. THIS COLT IS OUT OF A DIXI MARE WHO IS CLOSELY RELATED TO BASIL MASTERPIECE. DEBBIE MURRAY FROM NEWMACHAR ALSO SCORED WELL WITH HER BIG MOVING BAY COLT FOAL BY MFS VISION OUT OF A MARE BY JAPPALOUPE S. THE APPTLY NAMED PERFECT VISION EARNED HIMSELF 80 FOR TROT AND ALSO RECEIVED HIS 1ST PREMIUM.
SEVERAL OTHER SSH SIRES THAT CAME OUT ON TOP WITH 1ST PREMIUM HORSES INCLUDED THE JUMPING STALLION OTIS, OWNED BY HARRY AIRD AND SIRE OF THE CHAMPION FOAL AT THE 2006 NORTH O THE BORDER FOAL SHOW. THE BEAUTIFUL COLOURED FILLY BOGTON BELLE OWNED BY PAMELA KERR AND JANICE MCDONALD SCORED 83 FOR CONFORMATION AND 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER, MAKING HER THE SECOND HIGHEST MARKED FOAL FOR 2007.
BRAEFACE STUDS LICENSED STALLION WOOSTER AND APPROVED STALLION ALLROUND ACHIEVED MARVELLOUS SCORES WITH THEIR YOUNGSTOCK, THE WOOSTER COLT CHARLIE L RECEIVING 80 FOR CONFORMATION FOR OWNER WENDY FERGUSON AND CELEBRITY BE ATTAINING 85 FOR THE SAME BY ALLROUND FOR ANNE BROWNIE.
THE LISTED SIRE DE NERO BY NEGRO, OWNED BY LYNN AND MIKE MURRAY FROM SADDLERS MEWS, AND CURRENTLY COMPETING IN YOUNG HORSE DRESSAGE CLASSES IN GERMANY SIRED A EXQUISITE BLACK FILLY CHABLIS OUT OF THEIR FOUNDATION MARE SULIEKA BY SANTA KLAUS. THIS FILLY WENT ON TO RECEIVE 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND TROT.
PINNOCCHIO MIDDELSOM, THE LISTED LEOPARD SPOTTED STALLION OWNED BY ANNABEL AND JOHN FIRMIN DID WELL FOR HIS FIRST SEASON, WITH THEIR OWN HOMEBRED FILLY BLACKLAW PHOENIX RECEIVING 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER.
THE THOROUGHBRED INFLUENCE WAS SHINING THROUGH WITH THE LISTED STALLION SPARTAN HEIGHTS WHOS STOCK ARE DOING WELL IN SHOWING AND EVENTING, OWNED BY ALEX MIDLER AT CRAIGMANCIE STUD IN ABERDEENSHIRE. HIS COLT FOAL HARRISON HEIGHTS OWNED AND BRED BY GEORGE MITCHELL OUT OF A BROADSTONE WEST COUNTRY MARE ALSO ACHIEVED 80 FOR CONFORMATION.
ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GRADING HAD TO BE THE HANDSOME ORPHANED COLT FOAL GRANDOR LEGACY BY THE RECENTLY DECEASED REGISTERED STALLION THE DO RON, OWNED BY NANCY BELL. NOT ONLY DID THIS FOAL ACHIEVE HIS 1ST PREMIUM AWARD BUT HE BROUGHT A WELCOME SMILE TO MANY IN THE ARENA WHEN PRESENTED WITH HIS SURROGATE MOTHER, A SMALL BLACK SHETLAND PONY. ANOTHER DO RON TO COME OUT WITH A 1ST PREMIUM WAS MARTIN SHEACHS FILLY DO-RON DIAMOND LASS BY A MARE BY COEVERS DIAMOND BOY. THIS MARE COEVERS DIAMOND LASS ALSO ATTAINED THE STER PREDICATE IN THE MARE CLASS, SCORING 78 FOR HER JUMP.
PONIES
PONIES ALSO CAME TO THE FORE, WHEN ONE OF THE HIGHEST MARKED HORSES OF THE DAY CAME FROM THE YEARLING COLT, NORTHVIEW FAERIE PRINCE OWNED AND SHOWN BY CARYL MILLER OF PETERCULTER, ABERDEEN. BY BURNSIDE GARNET THISFREE MOVING YEARLING SCORED 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND TROT. DUGALD AND JACKIE LOW MITCHELL OF BALCORMO STUD HAD AN ELEGANT COLT FOAL BY THE PONY STALLION WHALTON CARUSO, A TOP 12.2HH OWNED BY JANE DAWSON WHO IS WELL KNOWN FOR BEING A BREEDER AND PRODUCER OF RIDING PONIES, OUT OF A SECUNDUS MARE, SCORING 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER. LASTLY SCHOLLAND EQUESTRIAN PRODUCED A VERY NICE COLLECTION OF PONIES, WITH SEVERAL ATTAINING THE 1ST PREMIUM AWARD, INCLUDING THOSE BY THEIR STRIKING REGISTERED SSH PONY STALLION RUSHIEFAULD HAVANNA.
NON SSH STALLIONS
HORSES IMPRESSING THE JUDGES BY NON SSH STALLIONS INCLUDED THE IMPRESSIVE COLT FOAL SHUREFLY OWNED AND BRED BY JOHN JAMIESON OF KIRKMUIRHILL. HE WAS MARKED WITH 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND CANTER, WITH 77 FOR HIS TROT. HE IS BY SIR SHUTTERFLY WHO IS FULL BROTHER TO THE INTERNATIONAL JUMPING HORSE SHUTTERFLY AND OUT OF A TORNADO FCS MARE. IT WAS A VERY GOOD GRADING FOR JOHN JAMIESON WITH SEVERAL OF HIS HOMEBRED OFFSPRING ACHIEVING 1ST PREMIUMS.
THE FINAL HORSE TO SCORE A TOP MARK OF 90 DURING THE FIVE DAYS WAS RASS STUDS LIGHT FOOTED YEARLING FILLY, BRAZILIAN LAMBADA. THIS STUNNING FILLY SHOWED A POLISHED PERFORMANCE TO SCORE 90 FOR HER TROT AND 80 FOR HER CANTER. SHE IS BY INTERNATIONAL DRESSAGE STALLION GRIBALDI OUT OF THE SAME DAM WHO PRODUCED THE STER AWARDED MARE ZERA.
THE GOOD MOVING HEARTBREAKER FILLY MFS CORINA-BELLA, ANOTHER BRED BY MORAYFIRTH STUD ALSO ACHIEVED MARKS OF 80 FOR WALK AND CANTER, WITH AN OVERALL SCORE OF 77 FOR MOVEMENT. SHE IS OUT OF A YOUNG MARE BY THE JUMPING STALLION HOLLAND.
MKM SPORTSHORSE STUD WAS WELL REPRESENTED WITH THE FILLES SKYE MKM BY SUNNY BOY OUT OF A RUBINSTEIN DAM SCORING 80 FOR CONFORMATION AND TROT, WHILE SAPPHIRE MKM BY DRESSAGE SIRE ST MORITZ AND ALSO OUT OF A DAM BY THE LEGENDARY RUBINSTEIN PRODUCING THE FANTASTIC SCORES OF 85 FOR TROT AND 80 FOR CANTER. PROUD OWNER OF THESE TWO ELEGANT AND DELIGHTFUL FILLES WAS ELIZABETH SMITH OF SOUTHFIELD, AIRTH.
ANOTHER JUMPING BRED MARE THAT DID WELL WAS THE 3 YEAR OLD ZORANA BY JUMPING STALLION ODERMUS R, SHE SCORED 80 FOR HER TROT AND EARNED HERSELF A 1ST PREMIUM FOR HER OWNER MELANIE MCGHEE.
FOALS BY THE HOLSTEIN STALLION QUITE EASY BRED BY BALCORMO STUD WERE ALSO SCORING WELL WITH THE JUDGES. THE FILLY COME EASY OUT OF A GLENRIDGE MARE SCORED 80 FOR HER CANTER, WHILE THE COLT FOAL CA CANNY OUT OF A DRAMIRO MARE SCORED 80 FOR TROT AND CANTER .WITH BOTH GAINING THEIR 1ST PREMIUMS ON HOME GROUND.
FINALLY THE ARGENTINIAN BRED STALLION LC NAPENAY SHOWED A VERY GOOD FIRST FOAL CROP IN SCOTLAND. THIS 14 YEAR OLD COMPETED AT INTERNATIONAL SHOWJUMPING IN BOTH ARGENTINE AND BRITAIN AND IS JOINTLY OWNED BY ALWYN MACLEAN AND STEVEN MONAGHAM IN FIFE. THE FOALS CHIPMUNK AND CHINOOK BRED BY BALCORMO STUD TOOK THE HONOURS FOR THEIR SIRE IN 1ST PREMIUMS, BOTH ACHIEVING 80 FOR THEIR TROT.
