Young rider wins GB’s top endurance title
Young passenger Abigail Chisholm has been named the Supreme National Endurance GB Champion of 2012, afterwards gaining the almost points inwards all types of rides over the endurance season.
Chisholm, 17, from Devon, also won the championship of 2012 National Young Rider Champion as well as her horse, Grey Medlar achieved the championship of Best Purebred Arab. Grey Medlar is owned past times Abby’s mother, Jo Chisholm.
The awards were presented at the recent Endurance GB Awards Dinner held at the Daventry Court Hotel inwards Northampton. The glamorous eventide rounded off a vivid twelvemonth for endurance inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland as well as adopted a patriotic red, white as well as bluish subject for all those inwards attendance.
The highlight of the 2012 flavour was the bronze medal won past times the British Young Rider Team at the European Young Rider Championships inwards Mont le Soie, Belgium; the get-go medal won past times a British endurance squad at whatsoever score since 2000. All the members of this medal winning squad attended the dinner.
Chisholm’s Grey Medlar is a previous winner of the Supreme Championship alongside Abby’s mother, Jo, inwards 2000 as well as straightaway at 21 years one-time he is showing no signs of slowing down. Between 1998 as well as 2012 Medlar has covered an impressive 7500km inwards 98 endurance rides roofing all distances from 32km (20 miles) to 160 km (100 miles) inwards ane twenty-four hours as well as 2 twenty-four hours rides, including the gruelling Golden Horseshoe on Exmoor as well as the as tough Red Dragon inwards Wales. He has likewise represented Britain inwards Kingdom of Belgium as well as was component division of the English linguistic communication squad inwards the Home International inwards Ireland, when he won the tough two-day 160km endurance ride.
Abby Chisholm, who was likewise EGB Young Rider National Champion inwards 2010 on her 13.2hh pony CFS Diana of Court, started riding Medlar inwards 2011. The stance was to give him a slightly easier fourth dimension carrying lighter Abby, as well as this sure enough seems to bring paid off. His almost recent victory this twelvemonth was a three-day 170km (107 miles) endurance ride alongside ix veterinarian inspections during the course of written report of the ride.
Jo said: “In this twenty-four hours as well as historic catamenia of articulation supplements, transcend character feedstuffs as well as to a greater extent than noesis of the best equine husbandry as well as preparation regimes, it is straightaway possible as well as quite mutual for horses to move competing good into their 20s. Medlar volition move out ane time again side past times side twelvemonth alongside the aim of reaching the side past times side distance destination of 8000km, alongside exclusively a handful of horses having reached this milestone before.”
Senior British squad member, Nikki Malcolm from Dorset, collected the trophy for winning the Senior Championship of 2012 alongside L R Bold Greyson, owned by fellow squad fellow member Christine Yeoman.
Winner of the Novice Championship of 2012 was Fiona Griffiths riding Talishla. This combination has had a really consistent flavour alongside several wins including, Day 1 at the Red Dragon ride as well as almost of late a win at New Park Rufus.
Champion Junior passenger was Saffron Bishop from Altarnun inwards Cornwall riding CFS Diana Of Court.
Outgoing Endurance GB Chairman, Jo Claridge said: “2012 has been a vivid twelvemonth for endurance alongside about hugely talented performances as well as an e'er increasing puddle of talented immature riders actually coming to the fore.”
Claridge retires from her term of component division as chairman of Endurance GB at the cease of 2012. Karen Collier has been elected past times the board of directors as the novel chair of Endurance GB for 2013.
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