HOYS Bound

A delighted KBIS staff member Kelly Gorman, returned to the office on Wednesday after having claimed her HOYS ticket at the New Forest County Show the day before.

 

The New Forest Show, which took place from the 27th – 29th July, ran over sixty showing classes, and with several running as HOYS qualifiers entries were high and classes hotly contested.

 

Kelly riding her families Llwynhywel Victorias First (Victor) took first place out of forty competitors in the Mountain and Moorland Working Hunter Pony, which meant that she had qualified to ride at HOYS for the title of Mountain and Moorland Working Hunter Pony of the Year. This is first time that Kelly has had a ticket to HOYS and as she came out of the ring the whole family was elated with the result. However no sooner had she won Kelly nearly lost her ride when Victor decided to escape from the lorry and go for a wonder around the lorry park. Luckily he was soon rounded up and returned, unharmed, back to the lorry!

 

The class in which Kelly qualified is split into three sections according to the ponies’ height. Kelly and Victor are classified into the middle height category, for horses exceeding 122cm but not exceeding 138cm. This was only their second attempt at gaining their qualification so a great unexpected result.

 

The Horse of the Year Show, at the NEC Birmingham, takes place from the 6th to the 10th October, with the Mountain and Moorland Working Hunter Pony Championships timetabled for the Thursday.

 

Kelly will be off next to competed at the National Pony Society’s Summer Championship Show, in which she will be hoping to make it into the final Championships of the KBIS sponsored class, the KBIS Mountain and Moorland Working Hunter Pony Championships which takes place on Friday 6 August.

 

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