Sport Local duo hope to make the Horse of Year show
Curtis and Emma Stoker will both be in action at one of the world's most famous equestrian events, the 2007 Horse of the Year Show, which is taking place at the NEC Birmingham this week, writes Kate Healey.
The show features junior and senior national end-of-season show-jumping championships, for which riders have been chasing places over the summer, as well as top-flight international show jumping and showing championships.
Carl, based in Goole, is through to the Grade 'C' final, where he will be up against many of the best up and coming young horses in the country. He will ride the huge bright chestnut eight-year-old Salvador III, who gained his ticket back in May at a rain-soaked Newark and Notts Show.
Carl, whose 19-year-old son Phillip is following the family tradition as a show jumper, has been going well this year.
He won the Mattie Brown Stakes at Newark on his international ride Panacee, a 10-year-old Dutch-bred bay by renowned show-jumping sire Concorde. The pair went on to head the International Trial at Suffolk County and make the line up at the Reims CSI in France.
Great Heck teenager Emma Stoker, who was chosen for the British squad at this year's Pony European Show Jumping Championship, has two rides in the leading junior Jumper of the Year final, the top pony title at the show.
She will partner her European ride Trefilan Talisman, also runner-up in the Pony Grand Prix at the Royal Show and on the second placed British team at a Dutch Pony International this season, and Tick Tock Two Tone.
This nine-year-old skewbald is already a Horse of the Year Show 'old hand', having won the Junior Newcomers title there in 2004, but this will be his first time in the prestigious Leading Junior final.
A limited number of tickets are still available for certain performances - call the Box Office on 08700 10 10 52 or visit www.hoys.co.uk
Published on 4th October 2007 in Sport.
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