With everyone getting ready to celebrate Christmas and welcome in the New Year, Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) are delighted to announce that the showing qualifiers for the 2019 season are now live on the HOYS website https://hoys.co.uk/competitor-zone/showing-qualifiers/. With a total of 29 Showing Championships to contest, there has never been a better time […]
Guide Dogs Volunteers Christine and Paul were surprised recently when they met with staff from Warwickshire based event company Grandstand Media who presented them with a further donation. Sarah Measom, Marketing and Communications Manager handed over a cheque for over £2500, making the total that Grandstand Media have donated to Guide Dogs to well over […]
If you want to make someone’s Christmas extra special this year, then a Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) Christmas Gift Voucher Rosette Box makes the perfect gift for the equestrian enthusiast in your life. Making your Christmas shopping that little bit easier, a HOYS Christmas Gift Voucher Rosette Box is delivered straight to your […]
Following the success of the 2018 Horse of the Year Show, it is with great pleasure to announce the showing judges for the 2019 Show. Each year the venue transforms into a mecca for equestrian enthusiasts as they arrive in their masses to compete or spectate and to witness who will be crowned the ultimate […]
Grandstand Media Ltd, organisers of Horse of the Year Show, would like to announce that there has been an alteration to the results of The Binks Family 153cm Show Hunter Pony of the Year class due to the disqualification of the 6th placed pony, Carnsdale Toyboy. This has resulted in 7th – 10th placings being […]
What an incredible week we were treated to at Horse of the Year Show 2018. A perfect celebration of 70 years of this world famous horse show. A week jam-packed full of equestrian entertainment at its best with a wonderful display of talent. It has taken a few days to even begin to digest everything, […]
At Horse of the Year Show 2018, a cross sample of animals competing in the showing classes were selected to be dope tested by the onsite veterinary team. Further to a blood sample being taken from the following three animals; Whittakers Prince, Melvale Tam O’Shanter and Fellthorpe Esther Jane, the samples have been analysed using […]
Now in its third year at HOYS, the Junior Mountain & Moorland Ridden Pony of the Year sponsored by Ponies Association (UK) found its next Champion in Skellorn Prairie Starlight (Star), a striking Connemara gelding owned by Katy Louise Seedhouse and ridden by Harrison Taylor. The whole team who had come out to support Harrison […]
Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) 2018 started with Diane Stennett’s outstanding mare Time 2 Reflect defending her Ladies Side Saddle Horse of the Year title – and it has ended with her being crowned Ripon Select Foods Supreme Horse of the Year. To see a side saddle competitor take the title on the […]
A five-year-old pony who has only been lightly shown this year has taken the ultimate accolade of the showing season, becoming Champion of Champions and Ruckleigh School Supreme Pony of the Year at the 70th Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). The evening performance opened to a track from “The Greatest Showman” and Carmens […]
There were tears of joy from Edward Whittaker when his and his father John’s six-year-old bay mare, St Giles Morgana, won the Shire Horse of the Year Championship supported by the Shire Horse Society. The sheer delight showed not just what this prestigious accolade means for Edward, but what the mare means to him too. […]
Karel Cox put the seal on a memorable day for Belgian showjumping when he won the Horse of the Year Show’s Leading Showjumper of the Year grand prix on Sunday evening at the NEC Genting Arena in Birmingham. Just hours after the Belgian team were crowned Nations Cup champions in Barcelona, Karel came up trumps […]
Showstopping Piebald, The Magpie, cleared up in the prestigious Coloured Horse and Pony of the Year Championship Sponsored by CHAPS (UK), taking the overall honours on the final afternoon of Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) to end a very successful season. The eight-year-old had claimed the Native/Cob/Traditional Horse section earlier in the day. […]
West Hants hit the jackpot as they were crowned winners of the Thistledown Developments Pony Club Mounted Games for the Prince Philip Cup at Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham. After finishing equal runners-up in 2017, they went one better this time as the competition came to a thrilling close under the spotlight of […]
Frenchman Geoffroy De Coligny declared: “I love Birmingham!” after winning his second major class at Horse of the Year Show in the NEC Genting Arena. After landing the Accumulator class in thrilling fashion on Saturday, he added the Zinc Management Speed Horse of the Year title to his HOYS collection. But it could not have […]
Wonder pony Sonas Barney completed a remarkable hat-trick at Horse of the Year Show on Sunday as Claudia Moore claimed victory in The Stable Company 138cm Championship. Sonas Barney, a 21-year-old veteran of the pony competition scene, has now won the prestigious competition three times with three different riders – Claudia, Madison Heath last year […]
British rider Paul Barker rediscovered a winning formula at Horse of the Year Show when he claimed a stylish victory at the NEC Genting Arena in Birmingham on Sunday for the final day of competition. Paul, from Northallerton in Yorkshire, triumphed in the Horse & Country TV Challenge Cup, a two-phase competition that sees riders […]
Partbred Welsh pony Penstrumbly Our Latif made quite a statement at his first Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) winning The Binks Family 153cm Show Hunter Pony of the Year before going on to stand overall Champion with Victoria Thomas in the saddle. Owned by Victoria’s dad, David Thomas, the Chestnut gelding did not […]
Izabella Rogers showed great form by winning the 128cm Pony Championship at Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham on Sunday. The 10-year-old, from Chelmsford in Essex, triumphed in the corresponding class at Hickstead this summer, and she was again on top form with her 15-year-old grey mare Whinney Lass. In a tight jump-off, […]
A capacity 9,000 crowd found itself treated to one of the greatest Puissance classes in Horse of the Year Show history on a memorable night at Birmingham’s NEC Genting Arena. The sold-out audience in the Andrews Bowen International Arena were wrapped up in a thrilling contest that ultimately provided joint winners in Guy Williams and […]
The Till family had a hugely successful day in the Kathleen Wood Children’s Riding Pony of the Year Championship on the Saturday evening of Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) with daughter India piloting two of their ponies to the top spots – Drakemyre Puttin on the Ritz (Alfie) in the 138cm section and Rotherwood […]
The final Champion to be crowned in the TopSpec Arena on Saturday at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) was Alexandria Aungier’s Welsh section A, Uphill Toy Soldier, ridden by daughter Gracie. A delighted Gracie gave Colin, as he is known at home, a big cuddle of appreciation as she stepped forward to receive the […]
With the excitement of every Saturday night at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) comes the prestigious Colosso Family Cob of the Year Championship. A tightly run contest as always, it was the joint-youngest in the field, Sue Tennant’s six-year-old Irish Draught Silver Diamond, who took the spoils. Ridden by Magnus Nicholson, who was […]
Sally Edwards-Marshall delivered an emphatic display when it mattered to win the Osborne Refrigerators Double Harness Scurry Championship at Horse of the Year Show. The Genting Arena’s Andrews Bowen International Arena was close to capacity for the Saturday evening performance, and the scurry drivers rose to the occasion superbly. No-one more so than Buckinghamshire […]
The 2018 Price Family First Ridden Pony of the Year class had the 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2007 overall Champions among the ponies contesting the prestigious title. It was the 2015 Champion – Woodview Ianthe – who reclaimed The Price Family Mini Show Pony of the Year Championship with a picture perfect performance on the […]
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