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Studbook - NEWS<br />
THE NATIONAL<br />
PONY SOCIETY<br />
The National Pony Society Summer<br />
Championship Show is the highlight<br />
of the society’s year, with horses<br />
and ponies qualifying from all round<br />
the country to contest the National<br />
Finals, held over three days in early<br />
August.<br />
At first glance there may not be an<br />
obvious link between sport and the<br />
Summer Championship show ring. But<br />
correct functional conformation and<br />
good riding type have led to the <strong>British</strong><br />
Riding Pony becoming an important<br />
source of blood for the continental<br />
pony studbooks and for successful show<br />
animals to go on to compete in sport<br />
themselves.<br />
One of the most prestigious<br />
championships at the show is the<br />
Ottergayle, for Hacks and Riding<br />
Horses. The 2018 champion Riding<br />
Horse, the NPS licensed stallion Tiger<br />
Attack, has three times been successful<br />
in the Ottergayle Supreme. When he<br />
is not in the show ring, Tiger Attack is<br />
starting to make an impact in sport.<br />
He qualified for the Burghley Young<br />
Event Horse Final in 2017 and already<br />
has 52 Foundation Points with <strong>British</strong><br />
Eventing. Tiger Attack also sired two<br />
other Champions at the show, the Show<br />
Hunter Pony Breeding Champion Dibynn<br />
Status Symbol and the Ottergayle<br />
Reserve Champion Hack Ecclesbourne<br />
Shark Bay.<br />
There is a very strong connection<br />
between the <strong>British</strong> Riding Pony breed<br />
and the German Riding Pony, with the<br />
German studbook heavily influenced by<br />
imported <strong>British</strong> blood.<br />
For example this year’s Open Show<br />
Pony Broodmare Champion was the<br />
seven year old mare Stanley Grange<br />
Regal Joy. She is a product of the<br />
very important Twylands Troubadour<br />
sireline. Troubador is probably best<br />
known in NPS circles as the sire of the<br />
great Strinesdale Matador, who was<br />
awarded the NPS Stallion Award on<br />
multiple occasions.<br />
However in Germany Troubador<br />
also had a significant influence. For<br />
example his granddaughter Rosepark<br />
Prelude is a registered <strong>British</strong> Riding<br />
Pony who was exported to Germany<br />
where she became an Elite mare<br />
and produced the Pony European<br />
Silver Medalist Basalt K, a number<br />
of Bundeschampionate finalists,<br />
State Premium mares and a licensed<br />
stallion. Her daughter Raffaela K was<br />
German Mare Show Champion and has<br />
produced a number of good offspring<br />
including the dual Bundeschampion<br />
and international dressage pony Casino<br />
Royale K.<br />
Another pony whose family diversifies<br />
into sport is this year’s 128cm Show<br />
Pony Youngstock Champion Sandboro<br />
Princess Royal. This 3 year old filly<br />
carries the blood of Troubador on her<br />
dam’s side but descends from the sire<br />
line of Westacre Concerto. Concerto<br />
is also the grandsire of the top 128cm<br />
jumping pony Kilcreene Apollo and<br />
is close up in the pedigree of other<br />
international jumping ponies.<br />
For aspiring sport pony breeders and<br />
riders, the Summer Championship<br />
continues to be an excellent shop<br />
window for foundation stock bred to be<br />
a ridden pony.<br />
For general enquiries:<br />
admin@nationalponysociety.com<br />
Tel. 01420 88333 Monday to Friday<br />
The National Pony Society,<br />
Arthur Rank Centre,<br />
Stoneleigh Park,<br />
Warwickshire, CV8 2LG<br />
Tiger Attack - (Image Courtesy ES Photography)<br />
Stanley Grange Regal Joy (Image Courtesy 1st Class Images)<br />
Influential Sire Twylands Troubadour<br />
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