British Breeder Magazine May 2020

Studbook - NEWS
Catchphrase’s full sister.
In 2019 the National Pony Society
launched a Performance Scheme to
celebrate the achievements of British
Riding Ponies both in sport and in the
show ring. Winners were invited to the
AGM held on 22nd February at the
Warwick Hilton hotel to be presented
with their prizes.
Thanks to the support of our wonderful
sponsors Derby House, all section
winners received vouchers and rugs, in
addition to rosettes and commemorative
certificates. The overall champion
was Rachel Bullock’s Stanley Grange
Overture, a 17 year old son of
Copybush Catchphrase out of Stanley
Grange Mayfair (Small-land Maytino)
bred by Mr Jerome Harforth. Stanley
Grange Overture has had a very
successful dressage career and won
this section on his way to winning the
overall title. Currently competing at
medium level he qualified for the Area
Festivals in 2019 having also gained
his qualifying points at Elementary
earlier in the season. In previous years
he has contested Winter and Summer
Regionals. Stanley Grange Mayfair also
Hightopps Jazz and Harriet Drewery – Show Pony section winners
Rachel Bullock being presented with her prizes by
NPS President Mr Rodger James and Studbook
Representative Miss Anneli Jones
producing the county level PBA and
show pony Stanley Grange City Lights
and Stanley Grange Nightshade
who competed in both affiliated and
unaffiliated dressage after a successful
career as a HOYS small hack. Mayfair
had a strongly Thoroughbred influenced
damline including HIS stalwart Kadir
Cup.
Copybush Catchphrase was the 1994
Supreme In Hand winner at Horse of the
Year Show and this family was in the
spotlight again in 2019 when another
British Riding Pony, Heronsmill Tiger Lily
took the same title. Tiger Lily is out of
Stanley Grange Overture
The in hand showing section champion
was Kayleigh Park Fernandes’ home
bred filly Parkholme Princess Louis
Roederer, a 3 year old by the Welsh
section B Flinora Bay Rum out of a
daughter of Elvet Challenger and then
the legendary Kilvington Scoundrel in
the next generation. The hard-fought
ridden showing section was won by
show hunter pony Hightopps Jazz
(Barkway Partytime out of Barkway
Spellbound by Orielton Aristocrat). He
was ridden by Harriet Drewery to many
successes in 2019 including qualifying
for Horse of the Year Show at our own
Summer Championship show.
In Hand Showing Section winner Kayleigh Park
Fernandes, owner/breeder of
Parkholme Princess Louis Roederer
Jazz’s full brother Hightopps Hugo is a
breeding stallion who was a champion
at Summer Champs as a 3 year old.
Their sire Barkway Partytime won the
NPS Stallion Points Awards from 2007
to 2009. With the show season at a
standstill, breeders will still be busy over
the coming months with the 2020 foal
crop arriving. This will see the return of
our Foal Friday feature on social media.
Send in a picture of your British Riding
Pony foal, pedigree details and also let
us know if the foal will be for sale and
every Friday we will feature one foal on
our popular FaceBook page. Send your
pictures to admin@nationalponysociety.
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