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September 2016 saw the SPSS repeat 2015’s successful initiative of taking our judges to our members, rather than expecting our members to come to us as in previous years. So, Hans-Heinrich Brüning (an international judge & breeder of Hanoverian dressage and jumping horses) flew in from Germany to join SPSS Chairman & Director, Jacke Mathieson (a dressage rider, stallion owner and breeder of competition horses and ponies) and together they judged more than 100 gradings and evaluations over 7 days at locations from South England to West Wales to South Scotland.
Stallion Gradings
For the first time for 8 years, there were two Stallion Gradings days and judging at both were Hans-Heinrich Brüning, Geoff Glazzard (competition horse breeder and former international showjumper) and Jacke Mathieson. At the first, which was in central England, six of the nine stallions forward were accepted then on the second day, in Scotland, all four of the stallions presented were accepted. The 2016 SPSS Supreme Champion Stallion title was awarded to the Scottish Grading Champion, Myles Lindsay-Brown’s lovely 9 year old Irish-bred Connemara Josie Jump (Currachmore Cashel x Moy Johnny’s Pride), who had previously showjumped in Ireland and, just 2 weeks before the grading, competed in the BSPS Mountain & Moorland Working Hunter Pony of the Year Championships at Horse of the Year Show. Then Reserve Supreme Champion was the Central Stallion Grading Champion, another lovely Irish-bred Connemara, Kippure Lancelot (Frederiksminde Hazy Merlin x Thunder Bay) who is owned by Tom McManus of Barrowby Connemaras. Both of these stallions impressed the judges and scored over 80%.
Mare Gradings
Seven days of mare grading in 2016 saw over 40 magnificent mares presented in front of our experienced judges and, to everyone’s delight, all were accepted into one of the SPSS Mare Studbooks and twelve of them scored 80% or more to go into the Head Studbook. With one Mare Grading Champion title for each day of grading, it was the Welsh Champion, 5 year old Donatella-Kick (Clausholm Donatello x Attention) who edged ahead to be declared as the 2016 Supreme Champion Mare. Donatella-Kick is Danish-bred pony with a Welsh Section A sire and a Danish Warmblood dam and she was imported into the UK by her owner Amanda Castle in 2015 as a foundation mare for breeding sports ponies.
The Reserve
Supreme Champion mare was the first Champion of the week, the 10 year
old German Riding Pony Jerry Lee Ut Deuten (Rocketti x Holsteins Jaimie).
A foal champion in Germany, Jerry Lee has been competing in British
Dressage competitions since 2012 and was awarded 9/10 for her flatwork,
ridden by her 12 year old owner, Holly James, who bought her a few
months earlier as a schoolmistress.
Youngstock Evaluations
As in 2015, British breeders again presented some truly outstanding youngstock, with 18 of them impressing the judges with their athleticism, elastic gaits and modern sports type so that they scored 80% or higher and were awarded a coveted SPSS GOLD premium.
Best of the best and awarded the 2016 Supreme Youngstock Champion title was the delightful SPSS passported filly foal, Jo Sholl-Evans’ Fairlight Rhiannon (Jonkers Metyo x Orchard Limb-Lopper) who scored an impressive 83.5% including four scores of 9/10. Described by the judges as “a stunning, elegant sport pony foal” and a “dancing princess”, both Fairlight Rhiannon’s sire & dam are Dutch-bred, SPSS graded part-bred Welsh ponies, making her over 25% Welsh. Rhiannon was also the Top Foal, Top Filly and Top Pony.
The Reserve Supreme Youngstock Champion was another high percentage Welsh filly foal – Penny Walster’s Bathleyhills Mystery Lady (Langwedh Sunny Jim x unrecorded). With Langwedh Sunny Jim (Kalevan Mystic Pride x Ernford Bonanza) grading as Reserve Champion Stallion at the Central Stallion Grading the following day, Mystery Lady also has 2 SPSS graded parents as her dam was graded by the SPSS in 2012. Overall, 3 of the Gold Premium youngstock were sired by Bathleyhills Stud’s Sunny Jim and a further 3 by another of their SPSS graded stallions, Bathleyhills Monet (Casino Royale K x Matcho).
Of the youngstock awarded Gold Premiums – and the evaluations were entirely open, so there was no requirement for any SPSS connection in the breeding – two thirds of them had an SPSS graded sire – so once again, success (at grading) is linked to success (at evaluation). Another interesting fact about these, the best of the 60 plus youngstock seen, is that, although their sires and dams are of a variety of breeds (including Arab, German Riding Pony, Welsh, warmblood horse and, of course, SPSS) and two thirds have at least one parent with a sports pony or warmblood passport, actually 60% of them have more than 25% Welsh blood (including two pure bred Welsh) and, of the remainder, only one has no Welsh ancestry at all!
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Photos from our 2016 Gradings & Evaluations can be viewed & purchased from the
appropriate photographer’s website:
East Anglia & Central
Julia Shearwood Photography -
www.equestrianphotography.co.uk
Please note that NO
photographs on the SPSS site may be copied without the express permission of the
photographer.
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Supreme Champion Stallion 2016 Scotland Champion Stallion Josie Jump Pictured with Jacke Mathieson, Katie Lindsay-Brown, Geoff Glazzard & Hans-Heinrich Brüning Photo by kind permission of Qorum Photos
Reserve Supreme Champion Stallion 2016 Central Champion Stallion Kippure Lancelot Photo by kind permission of Julia Shearwood
Supreme Champion Mare 2016 Wales Champion Mare Donatella-Kick Ridden by owner Amanda Castle Photo by kind permission of Qorum Photos
Reserve Supreme Champion Mare 2016 South East Champion Mare Jerry Lee Ut Deuten Ridden by owner Holly James Photo by kind permission of Craig Payne
2016
Supreme Youngstock Champion, Top Foal, Top Filly and Top Pony Photo by kind permission of Qorum Photos
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Congratulations to the breeders & owners of the stallions that were accepted at the SPSS 2016 Stallion Gradings and have completed the post-grading requirements:
Central:
Scotland:
2016
Supreme Stallion Champion 2016
Reserve Supreme Stallion Champion The following stallions have also been accepted as SPSS Licensed during 2016:
Our congratulations to the owners and breeders of all the successful stallions |
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Top Mares at the 2016 SPSS Mare Gradings
And again, congratulations to the breeders & owners of our Regional Champion and Reserve Champion Mares:
South-East England
South-West England
Wales
North England
Eastern England Central England
Scotland
2016 Supreme Mare Champion
2016 Reserve Supreme Mare Champion
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And finally, congratulations to the breeders & owners of the fabulous youngstock who scored 80% or more at one of our 2016 evaluations and received a coveted GOLD PREMIUM. After the evaluations were completed the following titles were decided based on the score received with the judges adjudicating if there was a draw:
2016
Supreme Youngstock Champion, Top Foal, Top Filly and Top Pony Reserve Supreme Youngstock Champion and Top Small Horse Top Yearling and Top Colt Top 2 Year Old |
Top Gelding Other GOLD
Premium youngstock:
SPSS Mare Grading and Foal Evaluation in progress |
Key
AES = Anglo European Studbook ApHC = Appaloosa Horse Club BApS = British Appaloosa Society BCPS = British Connemara Pony Society BHD = British Horse Database BRP = British Riding Pony BSPA = British Skewbald and Piebald Association BWBS = British Warmblood Society BWP = Belgian Warmblood CHAPS = Coloured Horse & Pony Society Conn = Connemara CPBS = Connemara Pony Breeders Society D-Old = Danish Oldenburg DRP = Deutsche Reitpony GRP = German Riding Pony GSB = General Studbook (ie TB) Hann = Hanoverian HPA = Horse Passport Agency ID = Irish Draft KWPN = Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland NF = New Forest NPA =Nederlands Pony met Arabisch bloed NRPS = Nederlands Rijpaarden en Pony Stamboek NWPCS = Nederlands Welsh Pony & Cob Stamboek OLD = Oldenburg PB = Part Bred PHS = The Pleasure Horse Society PZHK = Polski Zwiazek Hodowcow Koni SHAPS = Spotted Horse and Pony Society SHB (GB) = Sport Horse Breeding (Great Britain) SPSS = Sports Pony Studbook Society TB = Thoroughbred TRAK = Trakhener W'BYS = Weatherbys WBS-UK = Warmblood Breeders Studbook - UK WPCS = Welsh Pony & Cob Society XX = Thoroughbred
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