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NPS Area 12 are holding a social event at the Falcon Hotel, Bromyard on 8th December 2023 - starting at 6.30pm for 7pm pre dinner speakers.
*****BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE*****
This will be a fun, stimulating and educational evening including a buffet dinner, stud advertising opportunities and talks from
Alan Davies, one of the UK's Top Grooms and Breeder
and
Penny Walster, winner of the Sports Pony Society Studbook British Breeders Award 2022 and owner of Bathley Hill Farm Stud.
£20 per person
Children Under 5 Free
Stud Table £5 per table
Raffle, Bar
A bit more about our speakers.
You will all recognise Alan Davies from his links to Carl and Charlotte. Winner of the first Horse and Hound Grooms award, FEI Groom of the year 2017. BEF Medal of Honour for services to the team in 2018. Groomed at 4 Olympics, 5 World Championships and many European Championships. Ridden and produced show hunters and riding horses at HOYS and RIHS.
Alan has been showing and breeding Shetlands for the last 20 years, winning at the breed show with a homebred pony. He is now producing show ponies and part breds in hand, recently winning several championships and Silver Medals.
Penny Walster, owner of the Bathley Hill Farm Stud, breeds and produces sports ponies for the UK from the German sports ponies market. She has produced GB team ponies using many old UK bloodlines that were taken by the German market. Penny breeds for Temperament, movement and the conformation required for each discipline. The photo is by Kevin Sparrow at a stallion parade with Penny and Bathleyhills Monet.
*****BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE*****
This will be a fun, stimulating and educational evening including a buffet dinner, stud advertising opportunities and talks from
Alan Davies, one of the UK's Top Grooms and Breeder
and
Penny Walster, winner of the Sports Pony Society Studbook British Breeders Award 2022 and owner of Bathley Hill Farm Stud.
£20 per person
Children Under 5 Free
Stud Table £5 per table
Raffle, Bar
A bit more about our speakers.
You will all recognise Alan Davies from his links to Carl and Charlotte. Winner of the first Horse and Hound Grooms award, FEI Groom of the year 2017. BEF Medal of Honour for services to the team in 2018. Groomed at 4 Olympics, 5 World Championships and many European Championships. Ridden and produced show hunters and riding horses at HOYS and RIHS.
Alan has been showing and breeding Shetlands for the last 20 years, winning at the breed show with a homebred pony. He is now producing show ponies and part breds in hand, recently winning several championships and Silver Medals.
Penny Walster, owner of the Bathley Hill Farm Stud, breeds and produces sports ponies for the UK from the German sports ponies market. She has produced GB team ponies using many old UK bloodlines that were taken by the German market. Penny breeds for Temperament, movement and the conformation required for each discipline. The photo is by Kevin Sparrow at a stallion parade with Penny and Bathleyhills Monet.
Flat & WHP Clinic
Our successful flat and WHP clinics took place on 20th April 2022 at Amberley Court Equestrian,Hereford with local producer Lorna Cartlidge and were a resounding success. We will be looking to hold more in future, so please let us know what you would like.
Young Judges Success in 2021 and Teams for 2022
Once again our area had two very strong teams representing Area 12 at NPS Summer Champs 2021 in the Jennie Seymour Young Judges Competition. This competition has become a really well supported event in our area. We were able to have two full teams, one riding pony team and one M&M team. The teams had great fun leading up to the competition by visiting different yards and having expert advice and guidance from Pippa Balch, Emma Hector and interview techniques from Peta Roberts. The teams saw a wide range of different types, breeds and ages of ponies. Due to the pandemic all the initial planning was done over Zoom which was a huge learning curve for a lot of us! As an area we are very proud of all the team members – we had the whole range of ages from 10 year old – 25 year old. Georgie and Alice were very supportive and encouraging with the younger team members of Millie, Gia, Issy, Leo, Robert and Darcie. We certainly had some entertaining moments especially getting the outfits sorted!
We had placings across the board in all sections. With winners in Education and Welfare section, Georgie, and then Riding Pony section winners Millie and Georgie. The Riding Pony team finished 2nd overall.
We are very sadly losing Georgie and Alice this year as she is out of the older section, but would like to say a huge thank you for all you have done and look forward to you helping us out in 2022.
Our young judges co-ordinator Rachael Hanson was very honoured and proud to be able to organise such a fabulous group of dedicated young people who most definitely have the ability and confidence to go on and be our future judges, and would like to say a huge thank you to all the team members, parents, Pippa, Emma and Peta for your input, to all the yards that very kindly hosted us and most of all Area 12.
We are looking for more members to join our teams for 2022. We would like to welcome any members who might just like to come along to the training sessions. We have the opportunity to visit 5 yards and will be holding interview technique sessions for everyone. Please feel free to contact Rachael Hanson on 07794098408 if you want any further information. All our training dates will be confirmed by the beginning of May.
Once again our area had two very strong teams representing Area 12 at NPS Summer Champs 2021 in the Jennie Seymour Young Judges Competition. This competition has become a really well supported event in our area. We were able to have two full teams, one riding pony team and one M&M team. The teams had great fun leading up to the competition by visiting different yards and having expert advice and guidance from Pippa Balch, Emma Hector and interview techniques from Peta Roberts. The teams saw a wide range of different types, breeds and ages of ponies. Due to the pandemic all the initial planning was done over Zoom which was a huge learning curve for a lot of us! As an area we are very proud of all the team members – we had the whole range of ages from 10 year old – 25 year old. Georgie and Alice were very supportive and encouraging with the younger team members of Millie, Gia, Issy, Leo, Robert and Darcie. We certainly had some entertaining moments especially getting the outfits sorted!
We had placings across the board in all sections. With winners in Education and Welfare section, Georgie, and then Riding Pony section winners Millie and Georgie. The Riding Pony team finished 2nd overall.
We are very sadly losing Georgie and Alice this year as she is out of the older section, but would like to say a huge thank you for all you have done and look forward to you helping us out in 2022.
Our young judges co-ordinator Rachael Hanson was very honoured and proud to be able to organise such a fabulous group of dedicated young people who most definitely have the ability and confidence to go on and be our future judges, and would like to say a huge thank you to all the team members, parents, Pippa, Emma and Peta for your input, to all the yards that very kindly hosted us and most of all Area 12.
We are looking for more members to join our teams for 2022. We would like to welcome any members who might just like to come along to the training sessions. We have the opportunity to visit 5 yards and will be holding interview technique sessions for everyone. Please feel free to contact Rachael Hanson on 07794098408 if you want any further information. All our training dates will be confirmed by the beginning of May.
Calling all British Riding Pony owners!
If you are an NPS member you can enter your pony free of charge into the NPS/ Derby House BRP Performance Points Scheme 2022. (Just £5 for non-members)
There are sections for dressage, jumping, ridden and in hand showing and a utility section. Each section winner will receive fabulous prizes at the end of the year from our great sponsors at Derby House.
Points are earned from 1st January onwards through the year so lets see all your show ponies, dressage ponies or eventers registered.
For more information please go to https://www.nationalponysociety.com/performance-scheme-2/
If you are an NPS member you can enter your pony free of charge into the NPS/ Derby House BRP Performance Points Scheme 2022. (Just £5 for non-members)
There are sections for dressage, jumping, ridden and in hand showing and a utility section. Each section winner will receive fabulous prizes at the end of the year from our great sponsors at Derby House.
Points are earned from 1st January onwards through the year so lets see all your show ponies, dressage ponies or eventers registered.
For more information please go to https://www.nationalponysociety.com/performance-scheme-2/
2020 Covid 19
Due to the Corona virus pandemic we had to cancel our WHP Festival. We hope all our members are well and we would love to hear from you with any news during this unprecedented time. If anyone needs any help with anything at all, please don't hesitate to contact our chairman or one of our committee members.
We are planning and very hope for our events and performance points competition to return for 2021.
When we are able and it is safe to do so our committee will meet and discuss future events. Do check our facebook page for news and to keep in touch!
Due to the Corona virus pandemic we had to cancel our WHP Festival. We hope all our members are well and we would love to hear from you with any news during this unprecedented time. If anyone needs any help with anything at all, please don't hesitate to contact our chairman or one of our committee members.
We are planning and very hope for our events and performance points competition to return for 2021.
When we are able and it is safe to do so our committee will meet and discuss future events. Do check our facebook page for news and to keep in touch!
Huge Achievements for Two of our Young Members
We must congratulate two of our young NPS Area 12 members.
Firstly Georgie Roberts has been selected for the NPS International team and competed at the 2019 NPS Summer Champs against teams from New Zealand and Australia. She will travel in 2020 to compete in the International competition in Australia! What a fantastic achievement and opportunity and we are so looking forward to hearing all about this once in a lifetime trip!
Issy Hanson, 14 from Leominster was selected from many applicants to receive the NPS training bursary for £250. She was awarded this for her commitment to her riding and achievements with the NPS area 12 young judges among other things. Huge Congratulations Issy from Area 12!!
Firstly Georgie Roberts has been selected for the NPS International team and competed at the 2019 NPS Summer Champs against teams from New Zealand and Australia. She will travel in 2020 to compete in the International competition in Australia! What a fantastic achievement and opportunity and we are so looking forward to hearing all about this once in a lifetime trip!
Issy Hanson, 14 from Leominster was selected from many applicants to receive the NPS training bursary for £250. She was awarded this for her commitment to her riding and achievements with the NPS area 12 young judges among other things. Huge Congratulations Issy from Area 12!!
Social Evening 2019
On the 30th October 2019 we held a social evening with a focus of the evolution of the Riding Pony and Sports Pony. We were so lucky to be given talks from Jocelyn Price (Cusop and Courtway studs) and Jo Wright (FFS Sport ponies)
The evening was a huge success and the talks were both entertaining and informative. We heard all about the foundation of our breed in the work Jocelyn's family did for the British Riding Pony with the Cusop stud and the slide show of old photos was so interesting. We also heard from Jo Wright about the influence of British breeding into the modern sports pony and their success in the performance disciplines.
It was also a great opportunity for our studs from the area to share news, successes and a good chat.
We hope to organise a similar evening in the future, do get in touch if there is something in perticular you would be interested to hear about.
The evening was a huge success and the talks were both entertaining and informative. We heard all about the foundation of our breed in the work Jocelyn's family did for the British Riding Pony with the Cusop stud and the slide show of old photos was so interesting. We also heard from Jo Wright about the influence of British breeding into the modern sports pony and their success in the performance disciplines.
It was also a great opportunity for our studs from the area to share news, successes and a good chat.
We hope to organise a similar evening in the future, do get in touch if there is something in perticular you would be interested to hear about.
NPS Area 12 Young Judges
Our NPS Area 12 Young Judges have done phenomenally well the last two years.
Fabulous training from Mrs Pippa Balch and Mrs Gillian Sells have seen successes in 2018 and 2019.
If you would like to be a part of the competition in 2020 please get in touch.
Fabulous training from Mrs Pippa Balch and Mrs Gillian Sells have seen successes in 2018 and 2019.
If you would like to be a part of the competition in 2020 please get in touch.
Our NPS Area 12 Young Judges 2018 with mentors Mrs Gillian Sells and Mrs Pippa Balch
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Zara Scudamore Supreme Champion NPS Young Judges 2018
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HOYS Victories for the Litton Stud
Litton Salvador at our In Hand Show May 2017, he went on to take the CUDDY Pony title at HOYs and Reserve supreme champion, congratulations to all his connections! Photo by Equine Pix
Huge congratulations to long standing National Pony Society members and NPS Area 12 committee members Chris and Mal Morris of Litton Stud who have bred two major title winners at this year's Horse of the Year Show
🏆 Litton Enterprise (last year's supreme pony winner) taking the Part Bred title and Litton Salvador taking the Cuddy In Hand pony supreme title and reserve champion. What a fantastic result and so well deserved to people who have served the British riding pony and bred outstanding ponies for many years 🎉
🏆 Litton Enterprise (last year's supreme pony winner) taking the Part Bred title and Litton Salvador taking the Cuddy In Hand pony supreme title and reserve champion. What a fantastic result and so well deserved to people who have served the British riding pony and bred outstanding ponies for many years 🎉
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