Wow - Clancy on front of H&H AND a video!

FMM said:
Actually, we do have people for work experience every year - but there are no secrets (sadly) just hard work!!! Anyone wanting work experience, just let me know :)
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Thank you for the kind offer I'm a 28 year old PA - not sure it would be relevant :-)

.... perhaps I could send my 2 year old superstar showring hopeful ?!? I promise he will work really really hard :)
 
Wow ! What super stunning horse. You must be wearing a permanent smile right now:)
I especially like the way that Clancy and Dinger are out there doing normal horse stuff, not stood wrapped in bubble wrap in a stable, despite the fact that they must be both physically and emotionally invaluable to you:)
 
I have also enjoyed the article and will take a look at the video. Is that the same yard where my namesake was?

I love the fact your show horses are properly roughed off and out together. Refreshing to see especially as we get so many "what rug" threads. Phil looks very happy with his nakedness!
 
Still love that horse! Simply stunning! I would love to join your yard for the summer - I would just need someone to take over my job and horses for me lol!

Have you got any nice youngsters for next year?
 
EKW said:
Still love that horse! Simply stunning! I would love to join your yard for the summer - I would just need someone to take over my job and horses for me lol!

Have you got any nice youngsters for next year?
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We have some lovely 3 year olds - coloured cob, coloured plaited, hunter, hack and riding horse (so far) - they are all being terribly civilised so far - can't wait to see them out next year!
 
Such a charimatic horse - the short clip of him on Sky Sports from HOYS this year really sticks in the memory.

I thought Lucinda's comments were very interesting from the point of view she is more used to horses feeling more through and less programmed into an easy way of going to give judges push button rides. I find it incredibly frustrating sometimes when showing my showjumper who is an almost perfect middleweight hunter model, but is slightly more forwards and forwards than the perfect show horse and gets placed behind those with poorer conformation but who give quieter rides. Seems to me sometimes they want hunters to behave like show hacks.

That said, Comberton Clancy is a beautiful specimen.
 
Thats a lovely video and a beautiful horse many congratulations to your family

How is the supreme champion chosen? is it the best of all of the winners/best of the show class winners only? and if so how are they judged against each other?
 
WelshD said:
Thats a lovely video and a beautiful horse many congratulations to your family

How is the supreme champion chosen? is it the best of all of the winners/best of the show class winners only? and if so how are they judged against each other?
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The Supreme at shows is generally selected from the champions of each class. Specifically, at HOYS, it is the champion riding horse, hack, cob, coloured, arab (all of whom have won their class championship) plus the worker, the maxi cob, the small hunter and the ladies side saddle winner (none of those have their own championship)

This year we all went together into the Caldene area, walk, trot, canter. Then lined up and did individual shows in front of two judges. Last year it was Tina and Graham Fletcher, this year it was two driving people. Never (or rarely) is it showing people. So the result may not necessarily be the best ever show horse, but the one that the judge likes on the day! It is very hard with so many different types of horse on offer - so probably best that it is someone totally unrelated to showing!

We then leave the arena with absolutely no idea whether they like our horse or not ...

Then we all go back into the main arena in the evening, walk, trot, canter and gallop in front of the audience. Then we line up and eventually the supreme is called forward. There is no reserve at HOYS, just a supreme.
 
Mithras said:
Such a charimatic horse - the short clip of him on Sky Sports from HOYS this year really sticks in the memory.

I thought Lucinda's comments were very interesting from the point of view she is more used to horses feeling more through and less programmed into an easy way of going to give judges push button rides. I find it incredibly frustrating sometimes when showing my showjumper who is an almost perfect middleweight hunter model, but is slightly more forwards and forwards than the perfect show horse and gets placed behind those with poorer conformation but who give quieter rides. Seems to me sometimes they want hunters to behave like show hacks.

That said, Comberton Clancy is a beautiful specimen.
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It was interesting the way she put it - all of our horses are obedient in walk trot and canter with whoever gets on them - so it is not so much push button (as that implies there are buttons to push which then implies you could push the wrong buttons!). They are simply very co-operative and try their hardest (most of the time) to work out what their rider wants from them. Some of our horses are VERY forward going (and believe me, no judge wants to kick, they just want to think canter and get it!) it is a matter of getting the amount of work they require before the class right, so that they are still light and forward, but not silly or pulling the judge around. In a hunter class, although the judges don't mind a horse taking them forward, they do not want to feel they would be out of control on the hunting field! All shows horses should have excellent manners.

Clancy has been pretty much on holiday since HOYS so would not be quite as on the ball as when at a show where the sights and sounds are far more exciting. Most judges who have ridden him don't want to get off - saying he is the best horse they have ever ridden :)
 
FMM said:
Dinger is STILL the best (thank you!) - he is mine :)

He is on holiday as well - looking a bit different to the way he looked at HOYS last month ...

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Dinger is my favourite, we cheered him on at HOYS a few years ago (2008 I think).
 
He is generally quite a polite horse with nice manners - he gets a fair amount of work before he goes into a class and is treated like a horse at home - he hacks out, jumps regularly, goes to the park, is turned out every day - and of course has Jayne riding him in the ring which provides the finishing touch!
 
FMM said:
It was interesting the way she put it - all of our horses are obedient in walk trot and canter with whoever gets on them - so it is not so much push button (as that implies there are buttons to push which then implies you could push the wrong buttons!). They are simply very co-operative and try their hardest (most of the time) to work out what their rider wants from them. Some of our horses are VERY forward going (and believe me, no judge wants to kick, they just want to think canter and get it!) it is a matter of getting the amount of work they require before the class right, so that they are still light and forward, but not silly or pulling the judge around. In a hunter class, although the judges don't mind a horse taking them forward, they do not want to feel they would be out of control on the hunting field! All shows horses should have excellent manners.

Clancy has been pretty much on holiday since HOYS so would not be quite as on the ball as when at a show where the sights and sounds are far more exciting. Most judges who have ridden him don't want to get off - saying he is the best horse they have ever ridden :)
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Thanks for explaining FMM. He kind of givest that impression just watching him on tv.

I suspect the big shows in England also test show horses more completely than the ones around me tend to - hunters being asked to do a proper gallop is becoming increasingly rare.
 
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