Promising show jumping

Press, 25 February 1978, Page 21

Promising show jumping

1 he annual Canterbury show jumping championships to be held at the Ashburton showgrounds this week-end should produce some exciting jumping in both the horse and pony competitions. Members of the South Island show jumping team, David Letham’s Anzac, Mrs .lane Neave’s Fair Pay, Miss Kathy Taylor’s Imitation, Mrs Fiona Skevtngton’s Persian Shah, Mrs Jean Letham’s Ascotier and Miss ynne Collins' Kowhai Ridge, will be making their • na'i appearance before leaving for their North Island tour. They will compete at

the Wills North Island show jumping championships at faihape, the Wills New Zealand Horse of the Year < Show at Hastings and at the 1 :ircuit show at Gisborne. Four top form A grade! ponies competing at Ashburton which are also travelling 1 to Taihape and Hastings are! Maireena and Nina (Trevor' Coilins, Southland), Nyjinsky• (Miss Jan Sutherland, Dun-| troon), and Expertise! (Geoffrey Heard, Canter- i bury). The feature pony! 1 event at Ashburton will be the A grade Canterbury, Pony of the Year, judged, over two rounds on Sunday! afternoon. I

The main horse events, will be the Beath Cup on! Saturday and the Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon, aydt with 12 A grade jumpers of, a fairly even standard com-| peting, it could be a close, contest. Horses entered are; Persian Shah, Kahiua and! Dundonald from Otago, Fairj Pay, Imitation and Cornishman from South Canter-1 bury and Freddy, Glenmist.! Vigilante, Salvador, Highl Flyer and Anzac from! Canterbury. Form horses in the Bl grade events are Ascotier,! Pieman, Cyclone and Betsy! Lou. In the lower grade horsei

ievents, this year the C grade (ciasses are strong with 32i entries, and the novice grade (has about 26. The dressage entries have | shown a substantial in'crease, especially in the preliminary class which, with. (36 entries, will have to be divided. The main dressage i class for medium grade • horses will be on Sunday I morning and after his sucIcess at Waimate, Don Col- ; lins’s Glenmorven should be ! favourite. j Although the hack classes (show a large decrease, the! I light-weight and heavy- : weight working hunter [classes are well supported with 21 and 18 entries, a good increase on last year. A new award for the Canterbury show this year will be the champion working ! hunter, when the first three ! place-getters from each ■ hunter class will become eligible to be judged for the championship. Mrs D. M. Crowther has donated a cup for the championship to be named the Moorpork Challenge Cup, named after a well-known Canterbury hunter owned by R. M D. Johnson and ridden for many years by the former Christchurch huntsman, lan Glidden. Nine champion ponies will line up for the Canterbury Champion Pony of the Year, ( another prestige class on the ; Saturday.