British Breeder Dec 2023

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Mark Edwards Dillinger Ne
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Mark Edwards has enjoyed a
phenomenal summer season with his
horses, most of them bred and produced
at home on the family farm in
Cowbridge, South Wales, and his
success looks continued as he bagged
two major wins at the prestigious Horse
of the Year Show at the NEC,
Birmingham.
Never a slouch against the clock, Mark
came out fighting for the win in the first
of the three-star international classes, the
Grandstand Welcome Stakes, with his
father Martyn’s Dillinger NE.
Mark has produced Dillinger (Diarado
x Carismo) from 2020 and his novice
days, progressing though the grades to
contend the 2022 HOYS Foxhunter and
Grade C Finals and winning area trials
on the county show circuit in 2023.
“He’s a great horse and the breeders,
Ros and Denis Palmer were there to
watch him and we really think a lot of
him. I think he’s got a real big future
ahead of him and hopefully there’s more
to come,” added Mark.
Mark was firing on all cylinders to
record a second win later in the day,
piloting Royale Tale into the top spot of
the NAEC Stoneleigh Stakes.
The 8-year-old, winner of the
Newcomers and Grade C Finals at
Horse of the Year Show in 2022, was
bred by Sean and Charlene Daly and
is sired by Mark’s home-bred former
top ride Montreuxs Tale and out of a
Cavalier Royale mare. Mark and his
father Martyn spotted her potential early
on, secured her purchase and have
produced her from the beginning from a
4-year-old.
“This was her third win at HOYS; she
won two national classes last year and
has stepped up to the international
stage. She’s a great mare and she wants
to win as much as I do,” said Mark.
Other British Breds performing well was
Just Call Me Henry , the son of Argento
out of a Kannan mare and bred by
Murray McLeish and Steve Fag and
ridden by James Whitaker. James and
Just Call Me Henry secured the victory in
the British Horse Feeds Speedi-Beet
Grade C Championship.
Hollie Gerken Another Barney
HOYS 2023 138cm - 1st Class Images
Mark Edwards Royale Tale HOYS 2023
Stoneleigh Stakes - 1st Class Images
James Whitaker Just Call Me Henry HOYS 2023
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British Breds were seen winning at all
levels with Rachel Hall making a winning
return to HOYS after 36 years absence
to take the NAF Five Star Bronze League
Title on Balousina, The Baloubet Junior
Z x Lauriston 9-year-old mare, bred at
Renkum Stud – was purchased as a just
broken 4-year-old from friend Margaret
Tyers of English Bridles.
British Bred ponies were also collecting
the prizes with Katie Bradburne taking
the Blue Chip Pony Newcomers title with
Claire Crossman’s Shovern Inca, by Eros
the stallion son of Diarado and out of
a Wrayton Boaz mare and bred by Jill
Webb. Hollie Gerkin claimed the Equine
Rescue Services 138cms with Another
Barney, by West Country Sport Horses’
Filesco, the stallion son of Boss VDL, who
traces back to Indoctro and Nimmerdor
with Phin Phin on the dams side, and out
of pony mare Patch, breeding unknown.
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