British Breeder Magazine, February 2021

Studbook - News
Cruz & Jayne Turney – 2015 Medium
Restricted National Champions
The second of the annual SPSS awards,
the Dancer Medal is generally given to
an SPSS passported or graded pony
and 2020 is no exception. This medal,
which is an original piece of artwork
by Belinda Sillars, is modelled on
the outstanding pony stallion Dancer
who represented both Britain and the
Netherlands at the FEI Pony Euros
and was also a renown sire who still
appears in the pedigree of many of the
current top European dressage ponies.
Therefore, it is highly appropriate that for
2020 it is awarded to another stallion,
Woodlander Sir Gorgeous (Santana
x Synod Rum Punch), who was bred
by one of the UK’s most successful and
prolific sports horse breeders, Lynne
Crowden, and is one of just a few ponies
she produced by using her warmblood
stallions on two Welsh Section C mares
in 2011 and 2012. Sir Gorgeous, who
is known at home as “Riley”, gained an
Elite Futurity Premium (Dressage) as a
foal before being bought by his
long-time owner, Claire Wyatt of
Bromson Stud, as a 2 year old with a
view to producing him to sell as a 3 or
4 year old. However, once Riley had
been backed, dressage rider and trainer
Henry Boswell insisted Claire keep him
and Henry has been training Riley with
a view to him ultimately reaching Grand
Prix ever since. Riley first competed
as a 4 year old in 2016 and, ridden
by Charlotte Drakeley, he qualified for
the 2016 BD Young Pony 4 year old
Championship winning the qualification
class at Addington and then being
Reserve Champion at the Hartpury
Festival of Dressage Final beating other
top class ponies.
The next year, Riley went one better
and became the BD 5 Year Old Young
Dressage Pony National Champion
2017 with highest score over all age
groups. Wins with high scores at
Elementary level in 2018 saw Riley and
Charlotte easily achieving Regional Final
qualification and top 8 finishes in the
both the standard and music sections.
In 2018 & 2019, ridden by Kirsty Imm,
he impressed the crowds at Stallion
Parades and the judges at Medium
and Advanced Medium levels before
Claire’s great friend, James Coombs-
Gyde, took over as rider in 2020 and
success continued at Advanced Medium
level. Now working at Grand Prix level
at home, their aspiration is to compete
at PSG in 2021. Riley was licensed as
an SPSS stallion in 2016 and his first
foal, Bromson Remarkable, was born in
2018 and impressed the Elite Foal Tour
judges to gain an SPSS Gold Premium
and qualify for the Final. Then in 2019
another of his foals, MM Sweet Pea did
SPSS Elite Head Studbook Graded
Chaneira & her 2018 foal, Bickley
the same and was 3rd at the Elite Foals
Tour Final. In 2020 British Breeding
Futurity, 3 of his foals were evaluated
with 2 awarded Gold Premiums and the
other a strong Silver. Carrie Passmore’s
foal, Demi, was the SPSS Top Filly,
Top Small Horse and Overall Reserve
Supreme Youngstock Champion. Claire
says Riley has a fantastic character,
good work ethic, is a quick learner and
lovely to deal with overall. He adores
Claire’s 4 year old niece – who heads
straight for Riley ahead of her own pony
whenever she goes to the barn and
has already got her eye on Riley as her
future pony ride - so fingers crossed
there may also be FEI pony classes in his
future too!
2021 Events
Writing this column with at least another
4 weeks of lockdown to come, we’re
not going to mention the “P” word (ie
plan)! Instead, we will just say that our
aspiration is to work with the British
Breeding Futurity team once again and
we hope that we will be able to do some
“in person” mare and stallion grading
events this year – subject to being sure
we can keep everyone safe. So please
keep an eye out on our Facebook page
and website for announcements once the
situation becomes clearer.
Tel: 07703 566066
Email: sportsponies@gmail.com
www.sportpony.org.uk
PASSPORT UPDATE AMNESTY
- Send your passports in NOW without reprisal.
- Get those long overdue LEGALLY REQUIRED changes done ...
- The ones you’ve never quite got round to doing ...
- The ones you need to send the passport in for but it’s never been
convenient before ...
WELL NOW IS THE TIME - with no competitions, less travel & fewer other demands
on passports do those CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP, overstamping foreign passports
into a UK PIO, new addresses, notification of microchip, castration etc NOW!
SPSS Office remains fully operational & we’re turning around straightforward
updates in 2-3 days.
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ?
For more information or help email sportsponies@gmail.com or
call 07703-566066 www.sportpony.org.uk/passports.shtml
Woodlander Sir Gorgeous - Bromson Stud
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