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Meet the amateur riders and their horses who reigned at Royal Windsor

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    • While the full-time professionals often take centre stage at the major championship shows, the Royal Windsor Horse Show celebrates amateur equestrians and their animals with a range of classes specifically for those riders who show as a hobby. Each amateur winner then gets the opportunity to contend in the section championship, held in the Castle Arena.

    Check out these amateur show horse winners who were the judge’s choices for this year’s amateur awards. Will you be looking to aim for a royal outing next year with your hunter, hack, riding horse or cob?

    1. Cob

    Avril Bartolomy and her own and her husband Robin’s 10-year-old maxi cob Epimetheus, a maxi contender who is produced from home, takes the amateur cob class, providing Avril with her first Royal Windsor win.

    2. Hunter

    For the second year on the bounce, home-produced 10-year-old lightweight Glenkeeran Dance In The Deep, the reigning Royal International (RIHS) amateur hunter champion, nets the amateur hunter title with his owner Camilla Stowell Davies in the saddle.

    3. Hack

    Helen Whiteley-John, also winner of the large riding horses with her own Absolutely Fashion the following day, pilots Susan Church’s Stanley Grange Royal Appointment eight-year-old Royal Regatta to amateur hack victory.

    4. Riding horse

    The riding horse field was led by Charlotte Pearson and her mother Sally Pearson’s Up With the Lark eight-year-old Thurstonhouse Blencathra’s Boy, who also competes as an intermediate show riding type.

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    Alex Robinson
    Alex Robinson

    H&H showing editor
    Born and raised in the Lake District, Alex has grown up on the showing scene. She has qualified and competed ponies at the Royal International, Horse of the Year Show and Olympia and has first-hand knowledge of the current issues in the showing world as well as the horses, ponies and riders who compete in the sport. Alex joined H&H in January 2018 since when she has cemented its place as the leading equestrian publication for both showing reports and current showing news in the UK.
    Alex Robinson

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