A champion day for Jenna and Fancy Ferro at Hagan's Croft

Champion Horse Jenna Crawford, Fancy Ferro and Reserve Champion Horse Amy Griffith, Carrie pictured with judge Chloe Thompson

Saturday October 22 saw the second leg of Hagans Croft’s Working Hunter League and Northern Ireland Festival Qualifiers get underway.

The day started off with the Horse classes and the 60cm and four year old class. ‘Ruby’ is not four years old but nevertheless a young spring chicken at heart, taking the red ribbon at 17 years of age.

Onto the 70cm class where two of the three competitors had never competed at working hunter before but willing to give it a go. With all three competitors going clear it was down to their show piece.

A hairs whisker separated them all with second place going to Janine Austin and ‘Little Black Beauty’ and first place to Amy Griffith and ‘Carrie’.

Amy and ‘Carrie’ then went on to be awarded overall Reserve Champion Horse for the second week in a row. What a great achievement for his pair especially considering Amy has only owned ‘Carrie’ four weeks.

The 80cm horse class was the largest of the day with a total of nine competitors, therefore competition was stiff. Megan Norton and ‘Hathaway’ finished on a total score of 91/100 which secured them second place.

However it was a winning day for Jenna Crawford and ‘Fancy Ferro’ placing first in both the 80cm and 90cm classes, the pair went into the championship class at the end of the day. With a foot perfect performance, which impressed judge Chloe Thompson so much that she awarded the pair Champion Horse on the day.