‘She likes shaking her giant bum!’ Emphatic Hickstead win for ‘skewbald’ Beyonce

Alex Bishop took an emphatic win within the 1.25m open championship on the Al Shira’aa Hickstead Derby assembly these days (21 June) with Beyonce LVP Z – a mare who lives as much as her identify.

Alex and his personal 14-year-old by way of Berlin received from penultimate draw within the single-phase elegance, forward of Derek McCoppin and I’m Particular Too DHH.

“She’s known as Beyonce, she’s were given a large bum and she or he likes shaking it around the jump-off, a bit of like me, truly!” mentioned Alex. “She’s just right amusing.”

Alex have been spherical as soon as together with his personal RS Chacco Bay, decreasing two poles, so he had an concept of the place strides might be ignored together with his subsequent journey.

“There have been a couple of choices,” he mentioned of Ben Townley’s observe. “She doesn’t have the most important stride, so if I’m going to do it, I’ve to dedicate early, and I did; I did have some Superman legs now and then! Nevertheless it labored out.”

Alex purchased Beyonce on the finish of closing 12 months as a broodmare.

“However we’ve had her in paintings and she or he loves it,” he mentioned. “She’s very lazy, and each and every morning she’s skewbald, whether or not she’s had a tub the evening prior to or no longer, she simply unearths filth. So we get via a lot of crimson shampoo from B&M! However she’s stunning, beautiful, this type of type horse.”

Alex added that it’s at all times particular to journey at Hickstead.

“It’s at all times particular, it’s an attractive area and also you’re at all times welcome,” he mentioned. “There’s no different position find it irresistible.”

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