Team Bridales

💫 Hambleton District Show 💫

RIHS Ticket Number 7 🎉

🩶 Kimico Her Majesty owned by Grace Murray and Catherine Bell attended her first show of 2026 and won the BSPA NCTP RIHS Qualifier and stood Reserve Champion on her first attempt!

🖤 Westwick Bennie owned by Ben Ferris won the NPS Absorbine Dales, Fells & Highlands Youngstock and stood Reserve Champion NPS Blackertor & Sharptor Stud!

A long day in the sun and two very well behaved ponies!

Thank you to the show organisers for a lovely show!

NPS Area XI

Westwick Baron owned by Jodie Smith and ridden by Harriet Storey

💫 1st UKPH Intermediate RIHS

💫HFD London Semi Final and stood reserve champion with Jodie

Taking our RIHS Tickets to 7! The bus is filling up nicely 💜

💫 BSPS 3B - White Rose County 💫

What a day, what a weekend 😮‍💨🫠

💫 Haverford Nimbus and Jaycee Jones, owned by the Jones family and bred by Judith Reed - Royal International Horse Show Open Mountain and Moorland First Ridden QUALIFIED! 🥹

Jaycee’s first RIHS Ticket and Nimbus’s 2nd RI Qualifier. We are all so extremely proud of you Jaycee. Your determination, dedication and love of this pony has paid off and we are so exited to watch you in July!

💫 Trevallion Dempsey owned by Laura Sampson 3rd RIHS C&D just missing out on his ticket! His halo stayed in place today and he redeemed himself after yesterday 🙊

💫 Big shout out to Jodie Smith homebred, Strathallens Tiger Warrier who was broken here over the winter standing 2nd in the amateur hacks and 2nd in the Intermediate Show Hack Type 🫶🏻

I’m sure there will be professional pictures to follow!

Thank you BSPS 3B for a well run show and at such a beautiful venue!

BSPS 2B - we didn’t get wet, the sun made an appearance and we won some classes 🎉

💫 Morry Saltue owned by Bradley Ward 💫
1st NPS Picton C&D
Picton Champion
Super pleased with Cookie and how he is coming on. Super exciting future ahead 🍪

💫 AGS Diligence owned by Nicola Smith and Lesley Reynolds 💫
1st CHAPS Novice Pony

💫Haverford Nimbus owned by the Jones family and bred by Judith Reed 💫
1st BSPS Open First Ridden

💫Trevallion Dempsey owned by Laura Sampson 💫
His halo slipped today and he reminded us all that he’s still a young horse with his own opinion standing 5th in the RIHS C&D’s.

And lastly, RIHS Ticket Number 5 🙌🏻
💫 Westwick Baron owned by Jodie Smith 💫
1st RIHS HFD l. He was also 2nd in the UKPH Intermediates with Harriet Storey.

Great day for all our ponies, home and re set for BSPS 3B tomorrow.

Extremely poor on the picture front so 90% of these are recycled 🙈🫠

Today we ventured to our local riding club, Longton Riding Club.

We have sponsored a couple of classes this year here and we always try and support it as much as we can, after all these shows are where we all started 🫶🏻

Jaycee Jones & Haverford Nimbus have absolutely blown us away. Owned by the Jones family and bred by Judith Reed

🏅1st place M&M Small Breeds
🏅 1st First Ridden

We are so proud of you Jaycee and the work you’ve put in with Nimbus 🫶🏻

Our new Team Member, Morry Salute owned by Bradley Ward came for an educational day out.

🏅 M&M Large Breeds
🏅 Novice Horse/Pony

Who knew a weekend was only 48 hours because it seems we’ve been awake at least 92 hours!

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Saturday saw us in the beautiful hills of Malvern for NPS Spring Festival.

🦄 Westwick Baron, owned by Jodie Smith stood 3rd in the UKPH Intermidates with Harriet Storey. He also stood 4th in the HOYS FDH & NF class.
🦄 Our own Griseburn Major and Leyla Scott-Christian contested in their first HOYS Junior class to stand 5th. We are so proud of you Leyla you rode him beautifully and are building the most amazing partnership.
🦄 Hedgethorpe Expect the Unexpected owned by Deborah Chadwick stood 3rd in the HOYS FDH & NF

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Sunday saw us at BSPS 4B at Lincoln Showground.

🦄Trevallion Dempsey owned by Laura Sampson stood 3rd in the RIHS C&D. He is getting better every time out, he’s a real exciting future ahead of him.
🦄 Westwick Baron pulled 2nd in the RIHS FDH decided today was the perfect opportunity to let his halo slip and sadly dropped out the placings but they can’t be perfect all the time!

The sun has shone and we’re sun burnt in APRIL! That’s a novelty!

Big thank you to our guys at home keeping the show on the road whilst we’re away!

BSPS Area 4A

💫 AGS Diligence 💫
Owned by Nicola Smith & Lesley Reynolds
Standing 2nd in the RIHS Plaited Ponies and qualifying for the Royal International on his first attempt.
We are all extremely proud of you both 🫶🏻

💫Trevallion Dempsey 💫
Owned by Laura Sampson
Stood 5th in the RIHS C&D class in extreme testing conditions, entered the ring in the sun, did the go round in the rain and his show in a hail/rain monsoon! He keeps getting better!

Slightly lacking on the picture front due to the extreme weather so this is the best we could do!

RIHS Ticket Number 4 for Team Bridales!

Easter Weekend - 4 days, 4 shows & 5 ponies!

Friday - NPS Area 5

💫 Westwick Bennie, owned by Ben Ferris. 1st 1,2 & 3 year olds, Mole Valley M&M Champion & NPS Silver Medal Champion

💫 Haverford Nimbus, owned by Jones Family and bred by Judith Reed. 2nd Novice & Open First Ridden. Super proud of this combination, thrown in at the deep end at his first ever show.

Saturday - North Of England

💫 Hedgethorpe Expect the Unexpected, owned and bred by Deborah Chadwick, 2nd RIHS Fell Dales Highlands.

Sunday - North Of England

💫 Riversway Tatty Boggle, owned and bred by Dawn Duffy and Imogen Duffy, winner RIHS NCTP and standing reserve champion.

Monday - NCPA Eastern Spectacular

💫 Hedgethorpe Expect The Unexpected. Winner RIHS Fell Dales and Highlands and standing Champion

💫 Trevallion Dempsey, owned by Laura Sampson contested in his first RIHS. After an initial pull of 2nd he ended up finishing 5th after a baby moment in his show. He was impeccably behaved and excited to see what comes of this boy!

2 more RIHS Tickets secured and the party bus is filling nicely!

Thank you to all the show organisers for their hard work in running these shows, to our sponsors for your continuous support and to our amazing friends at home for holding the fort!

Wine securely in our glasses and planning for next weekend’s adventure 🙈