Sunday night at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) saw the crème de la crèmeof the week’s Champions crowned in the Supreme Products Supreme Horse of the Year and Supreme Products Supreme Pony of the Year Championships. This year, the lineup of Champions were judged by husband and wife team Philip and Rosemary Hilton. Guy Mears and Isabella Mears-Wood’s Champion Hack, Forgeland Hyde Park (Will), had the ultimate star quality on the night. You could hear a pin drop in the Andrews Bowen International Area before he and show producer Danielle Heath were called forward into the spotlight and announced as the Supreme Products Supreme Horse of the Year. Will

To lift the Cup once is a great achievement, but to lift the Pony Club Mounted Games Prince Philip Cup twice in consecutive years is quite an accomplishment. However the team from The North Herefordshire Pony Club have done it again to be crowned the 2023 Champions in the final at Horse of the Year Show! Sponsored this year by Thistledown Developments, the Pony Club Mounted Games have been a much-loved part of the show since its introduction in 1957. The idea behind the games was to give children the opportunity to have fun whilst competing without the need for an expensive showing or showjumping horse. The team ofriders representing

It was an emotional first HOYS victory for a delighted Gemma McClorey and her Shire gelding Cotebrook Sgurr Alasdair (Al) in The Barber Family Ridden Heavy Horse of the Year Championship on the final day of Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). A collection of Clydesdales and Shires filled the Andrews Bowen International Arena all hoping to take the title, but in the end William Morton piloted Al into the spotlight after impressing judges Katie Duxbury and David Curtis. Eight-year-old Al has qualified for HOYS three times, but he was unable to compete in his first year after coming down with a virus just a few days before the show.

The final day of competition got underway at Horse of the Year Show 2023, and 22 combinations came forward to contest the British Horse Feeds Speedi-Beet Grade C Championship. Riders have been competing throughout the year, up and down the country, to qualify for the final which culminates at HOYS this week. Previous winners of this national showjumping class include the likes of Nick Skelton, Geoff Billington, Tim Stockdale and William Funnell. Landing the title this year was James Whitaker riding eight-year-old bay gelding, Just Call Me Henry, who is by the magnificent stallion Argento. James was second to go in the jump off and produced an effortless quick round

Commandant Geoff Curran and Bishops Quarter did it again to take the Ripon Select Foods Puissance class with an outright win at Horse of the Year Show 2023. Since making his debut at the infamous horse show last year, Curran got bit by the HOYS bug and returned this year to defend his title. Twelve initially came forward to face the big red wall and four riders made it through to round five in front of a rocking sell-out crowd at Birmingham’s NEC. The imposing wall stood at 2.20m, which proved too much for the other three competitors. Representing Ireland’s Ministry of Defence, it was a moment of Déjà vu 

Show producer Jerome Harforth’s homebred five-year-old mare Swan Lake won The Andrews Family Partbred Pony of the Year Championship with Sophie Staveley in the saddle on the penultimate evening of Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). By Llanarth Top Cat out of Dance All Night, Swan Lake has a number of HOYS connections to her name. She was shown by Jerome as a yearling and took reserve twice in the In-Hand Horse of the Year qualifiers, while her dam, Dance All Night, won here back in 2012 in the Children’s Riding Pony of the Year with Lucinda Elliott. After a quiet season last year, Sophie started riding Swan Lake this