A tiny rider and her final first ridden pony captured the hearts of the judges en path to the 2024 RIHS BSPS Heritage M&M ideally suited mini championship on the 2024 Royal Global Horse Display (RIHS).
Seven-year-old Charlotte Knight and her mom Jamie Clarke’s Welsh segment A mare Thistledown Princess Letizia (Lu Lu) headed a mammoth first ridden box on what used to be their debut on the Hickstead ultimate as a duo.
Lu Lu, who’s through Thistledown Esteem, is produced through mini queen Sharn Linney. She has best been partnered with Charlotte since February, when she used to be bought from circle of relatives pal Laura Lengthy.
All through the 2024 season, Charlotte and Lu Lu have gained two Horse of the Yr Display (HOYS) championships, at Royal 3 Counties in June and at Stoneleigh the weekend earlier than the RIHS.
They gained two RIHS qualifying championships at UK Ponies and Horses Spring Vintage, the place they had been additionally reserve mini ideally suited, and at BSPS House 7.
Charlotte rode on the RIHS for the primary time in 2023 aboard the circle of relatives’s home-produced lead rein Thistledown Magpie.
“Lu Lu went instantly to Sharn’s backyard when she arrived with us and ever since then we’ve simply had the most productive time together with her,” stated Charlotte. “She’s one in one million who simply helps to keep on giving.”
Manufacturer Sharn stated: “She’s were given a large persona, however she has a center of gold, and he or she has the most productive partnership with Charlotte; they’ve in reality gelled in combination.”
Reserve fell to the second one positioned lead-rein pony, Naomi Bradwell’s Welsh segment A Glebedale Silver Dot, piloted through Naomi’s granddaughter Scarlett Smith and treated through his co-producer Adam Forster.
The typey gray gelding, beginner ideally suited on the BSPS iciness championships, is only a five-year-old, however he’s already sure for HOYS after status champion at North of England summer season display.
The 2024 RIHS M&M ideally suited mini championship set used to be finished through the second one positioned first ridden, Glebedale Silhouette — some other first-season contender who’s only a four-year-old — ridden through Penny Richardson, and the successful lead rein trio of Sarah Weston’s Dartmoor Langfield Billy Costa, Thomas Parker and handler Sarah Parker.
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