Harry Bateman wins the SEIB Winter Novice at Bury Farm Equestrian Winter Classic
Monday 07 March 2022
1.jpg "Harry Bateman wins the SEIB Winter Novice at Bury Farm Equestrian Winter Classic")
This weekend saw Bury Farm Equestrian host the final SEIB Winter Novice Qualifier of the season on Sunday, 6th March. The twelve-fence A10 course, built by Phil Ashworth, was tackled by forty-nine combinations and Essex based Harry Bateman took the victory aboard the nine-year-old chestnut gelding Cruising To Paris, owned by Cassie Moran.
Of the forty-nine starters, eighteen combinations came through with a zero score to progress through to the jump off, with some very speedy combinations in the line-up. A few tight turns at the start of the course and a forward run down to the last, Harry and Cruising To Paris stopped the clock at 37.39 seconds with a double clear to head to the top of the leader board.
Closely followed in second place was Izzy Goddard and Jitterbug WL who were double clear in a time of 38.12. Third place went to Heidi Luck and My Star, double clear in 39.20 seconds.
For all those lucky enough to have qualified all eyes now fall on the SEIB Winter Novice Final which will be held at Royal International Horse Show at Hickstead (26th-31st July).
A full list of qualified riders can be found here.
Also heading to Hickstead are the top two in the Winter B&C qualifier which was held on Saturday afternoon. Mark Edwards and Ede Peasy took the honours with a double clear in 40.51 seconds, followed by John Crippen in second with Gracia I, who stopped the clock at 42.25 seconds with a double clear. Third went to Chloe Templeton and Julius who were double clear in 47.65 seconds.
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NB: Results pending official grading.
