THE EVENT: Local riders come through national qualifier
6:00am Thursday 23rd February 2012 in Latest News
TWO Wiltshire riders were among the qualifiers for the Trizone Airlite Star Championship after a national qualifier at the West Wilts Equestrian Centre in Holt.
Broughton Gifford’s Amy Andrews finished third behind Oxfordshire’s Chantelle De Verteuil and Reading’s Beth Mantel.
Andrews, who has worked for world-famous horse dealer Paul Schockemohle in Germany and leading Irish showjumper Jessica Kurten in the past, rode the six-year-old gelding Awen Knight.
Easterton’s Gary Urch qualified fourth on Bonanza. Urch is well known as a farrier, and shoes horses for four-star event rider Georgie Spence, from Foxham, among others.
Swindon-based Elaine Tragett topped the 95cms Open on her grey mare Cornish Mermaid.
At the first of two shows at Holt, Malmesbury’s Kathryn Harris, best known as an event rider, came close to a double on rising six-year-old B Tambourine Man, winning the 1.05m Open and finishing second in the Discovery.
West Wilts-based Mandy Collins led the Foxhunter/1.20m Open class on Little Cruz, who she rode into third place at the Weston Park CCI** three-day event last autumn.
