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Glanusk Welsh Breeds Show 2009

Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells.
Saturday 2nd May 2009.

There were 651 show entries plus 34 section A stallions competing for premiums to run out on 18 South Wales areas at the 51st Glanusk Show held on the Royal Welsh Showground on Saturday 2nd May. Champion of the premium stallions was Penwayn Ivan who will run out on the Black Mountains.

Champion Premium stallion Penwayn Ivan

Premium Stallion Line Up

Show President Mr Lewis Edwards of the Maesgwyn Stud selected as his supreme the six-year-old chestnut section A stallion Penboeth Bantam owned by Frances and Sally Goggin of Dowlais with the Landon family’s five-year-old chestnut section B stallion Linksbury Charming as reserve.

Penboeth Bantam with president Lewis Edwards

Linksbury Charming
Champion B and Reserve Overall with Judge Kevin Walker

Section A judge Mrs Ann Jones of the Frongoch Stud had previously awarded Penboeth Bantam the championship as a yearling at the Lampeter Summer Show and he also won the youngstock championship at the Lampeter Spring Show as a two-year-old. Reserve section A champion was Eppynt Stud’s grey eight-year-old open stallion winner Eppynt Veron who was also reserve champion last year, 1st in 2006 and supreme in 2005. Eppynt Stud’s last year’s supreme Eppynt Shot in the meantime has been exported to Australia. A photograph of Eppynt Skyline, taken at Glanusk Show, along with a photograph of Ann Jones’ Frongoch Cardi appear on the cover of the book “Sixty Years of Royal Welsh Champions” which sold in droves from the WPCS Publicity vehicle at the Show, some overseas visitors buying them six at a time!

Eppynt Veron
Reserve Champion Section A

Glanusk is a lucky Show for London exhibitor Sean Bridges of Plumstead; this is the third consecutive year for him to win a first prize. This time it was with the charming bay yearling filly Padstow Millionairess, daughter of his Weston Mondi who won her yearling class here at Glanusk in 1990. Mondi is a daughter of Weston Little Model who is herself a daughter of Revel Confetti, the second-highest foal on the 1969 Fayre Oaks Sale who went on to be such a “gold mine” for the Weston Stud. The great-grand-daughter of the “gold mine”, the aptly-named Millionairess was also the very well-deserved youngstock champion.

Padstow Millionairess with Judge Mrs Ann Jones

The last time the Landon family were reserve supreme at Glanusk was in 1996 when their Dutch-bred grey stallion Lindemoeve’s Alexander was reserve to Synod Stud’s Synod Miss Alice. Their section B champion this time was the home-bred stallion Linksbury Charming whose sire Linksbury Royal Charm was reserve section B champion at last year’s Royal Welsh Show. Bernard and Maureen Butterworth’s two-year-old filly Paddock Alesha, who was reserve champion, is another descendant of a “gold mine” i.e. Coed Coch Penwn purchased on the Coed Coch Dispersal Sale in 1978 for 1,400 gns, her full-sister Coed Coch Gala selling for almost three times that figure. Alesha, who last year won a bronze medal at the Northern All-Welsh and a silver medal at the North Western, is out of Paddock Peioni who won the £1,000 Jennifer Brown prize at the Royal Lancashire Show and is one of a very small handful of ponies or cobs who can claim three Royal Welsh first prizes under their belt.

Paddock Alesha
Youngstock Champion Section B, Reserve B and Reserve Overall Filly

Hilin Tattoo
1st Prize Section B 3 year old with Judge Kevin Walker

Section B Yearling Fillies

John and Jacky Kirk must be very proud of their ten-year-old stallion Donys Llawen who sired both champion and reserve section C’s. Llawen is remembered winning his harness class at the Royal Welsh but is now happier at home running out with his mares. Champion was John and Jacky’s stunning five-year-old bay stallion Donys Highwayman who was youngstock champion at Cheshire County, but being the same age as Fronarth Robben, has had to take 2nd place to him previously at Lampeter and Glanusk. Highwayman’s dam Synod Glamour Chick was one of the top-priced foals on the 1993 Royal Welsh Sale and her dam Synod Gwendoline (foaled in 1972) is by Tydi Cerdin of the “Tydi” prefix before it was changed to “Synod”. From 129 section C entries, the champion and reserve were of the same pattern, the reserve being Julian Williams’ good-moving two-year-old filly Cilmery Lili Lon, daughter of Hardys Lullaby.

Donys Highwayman
Champion Section C with owner John Kirk

Menai Mr Mustard
Reserve Youngstock C

The section D results were a repetition of Lampeter, but deservedly so; the same champion from 193 entries, the same reserve champion, the same youngstock champion and the same filly champion. The Jones family’s bay stallion Fronarth Welsh Lion is now eight years old and benefitted from having time away from the showring to furnish. The last time he competed was in 2004 when he was again champion at Lampeter and Glanusk. The three-year-old Pennal Brynmor who was reserve champion is surely one of the most exciting youngsters to be out for a long time. He is produced by Clare Granger and George Mitchell at Chingford for Dai and Sian Harris of Pennal. Tom and Daniel Hughes’ three-year-old filly Ionos Ffion had lost none of her sparkle at the end of a long day and this daughter of Gwynfaes Culhwch was supreme filly with Paddock Alesha reserve.

Fronarth Welsh Lion
Champion Section D with Judge Robert Manchip, steward Charmian Middleton and owner Gwyn Jones

Pennal Brynmor
Section D Youngstock Champion and Reserve Champion Section D

Ionos Ffion
Reserve Youngstock D and Overall Best Filly

Swanhill Golden Rocket
1st Prize Section D 2 year old colt with Judge Robert Manchip

Mrs Margie Edwards of Nefydd judged some very good classes of ridden sections A and B and Simon Bigley of Llanarth had huge classes of ridden sections C and D but both agreed that the championship went to the four-year-old Dutch-bred section B Hoekhorst Juliette ridden by Lauren Wilson and the reserve to Lowri Reed riding the section A Gweundir Dafydd who had excellent marks at the Olympia championships last year for his impeccable manners. Juliette was purchased at the 2007 Brightwells Fayre Oaks Sale for the bargain price of £3,400 and has only been broken for four weeks.

Hoekhorst Juliette
Ridden by Lauren Wilson with Judges Mrs Margi Edwards, Simon Bigley and Dutch breeder Rinus Hoeke

Ridden Section D

Report by Dr Wynne Davies
Photographs by Dr Wynne Davies and Mili Peel

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