Qualifier triumph earns Vanessa slot at top show

She gained her place at the third 2008 South Essex Insurance Brokers Search For A Star qualifier at Addington Manor Equestrian Centre, Bucks, which attracted an unprecedented number of competitors.

Vanessa, from Northchapel, won the Riding Club Show Horse Class with her six-year-old grey gelding, Roulade.

She bought him two years ago from Roger Dungworth, the joint master of the Cottesmore and the Scarteen Fox Hounds in Ireland, who now lives in Lincon.

For full story see Sussex Horse World, West Sussex Gazette August 6