British newbie championship – a ‘marvel’ victory

Katie Magee received the hotly contested Fairfax Saddles British newbie championship on the Gatcombe Pageant of British Eventing alternative, the NAF 5 Superstar Hartpury World Horse Trials as of late (11 August).

Using Sharon Parnaby’s seven-year-old Cushlas Indigo, Katie completed on her 26.3 dressage, which left them 2d after the primary segment, however their rapid double transparent secured the win.

“I used to be a little stunned to win, to be truthful,” laughed Katie. “He’s had a in point of fact excellent season so we had been hoping for a best 10 end in slightly a aggressive elegance, so it is a good consequence.”

Katie has produced Cushlas Indigo up throughout the grades, with wins at newbie stage and placings at three-star.

“His proprietor discovered him in Eire and purchased him for me to journey,” defined Katie, whose subsequent forestall with this son of Imperial Heights is the CCI3*-L at Blair Citadel later this month.

“He’s a in point of fact beautiful personality and really easy however with sufficient personality and spice to stay it attention-grabbing. Has been spooky in his previous couple of assessments so it used to be excellent to get the mark he used to be in a position to this weekend. He’s getting higher and higher – he does what he must do and the larger the fences, the simpler he’s getting. He used to be good final 12 months too and we’ll stay generating him and spot the place he is taking us.”

Hector Payne and the flashy eight-year-old mare World Lovestory had been 2d on 27.5, whilst Kirsty Chabert and Hanerina SSF had been 3rd on 28.

British newbie championship first segment leaders, New Zealand’s Samantha Lissington and Mr Cookie Time, added 3.2 cross-country time-faults to their 26.1 dressage to complete in 7th.

Of the 50 cross-country starters, 37 jumped transparent and 12 finished within the 5min 59sec optimal time.

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Gemma is an skilled journalist, having been a part of the H&H workforce since 2014, who’s enthusiastic about all equestrian sports activities, together with racing and point-to-pointing. She has loved driving out for best running shoes Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and participated in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting skills have taken her to a large number of five-star occasions round Britain and Europe, in addition to Eu championships.