Welsh Cobs
at the
Royal Welsh Show.
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Llanelwedd, Builth Wells.
July 2011.
by Rosemary Cooper.
This year’s Royal Welsh Show was a resounding success for the progeny of the famous Section D stallion Trevallion Harry. His daughter, Abergavenny Morning Queen, took the championship, with his son, the junior stallion Trevallion Black Harry in reserve spot, while another son, Powysvalley Mr Harry, won the senior stallion class.
For more than thirty years John Batt and family, from Garth Farm in Abergavenny, have dreamt of winning the Prince of Wales Cup. This year they finally triumphed with their home-bred Abergavenny Morning Queen, who has a colt foal at foot by Solloway Hooch. The 11-year-old bay mare, who is out of Nebo Magic’s daughter Felinmor Morning Magic, went on to win two more championships, the Supreme Welsh in Hand and the Tom and Sprightly. She has only been shown twice previously, in 2007, when she won the Reserve Championship at this show and the Welsh Cob Championship at the Royal Show.
The late Trevallion Harry was never first at the Royal Welsh but on eight occasions he finished a frustrating second. He was bred by Nelson Smith at the Trevallion Stud at Balsall Common in the West Midlands. In the junior stallion class, judge Robert Manchip, of the Ffald Stud, placed his 7-year-old son, Mattie Attrell’s Trevallion Black Harry, in front of Meurig Thomas’ 4-year-old bay Cruglwyd Guto. In 2010 Trevallion Black Harry, entirely black except for a small star, won the overall championship at the South Eastern Welsh Pony and Cob Association’s show.
Phil and Jacquie Pugh’s senior stallion winner Powysvalley Mr Harry, a 10-year-old out of Powysvalley Miss Molly, won a senior stallion class that was disappointing in numbers but not in quality. Second of the thirteen entrants forward was Clare Granger’s and George Mitchell’s Mitcheltroy Welsh Prince, a cob with almost as much white on him as Shire. By this time, the Grand Ring, newly resurfaced after so often becoming a mud bath, was still a welcome shade of green.
The reserve female championship went to the Jones Family’s Fronarth Super Model, winner of the junior brood mare class. A bay with four white feet, she is by Derwen Desert Express out of Fronarth Welsh Model, who was a George Prince of Wales champion and won at the Royal Welsh six times.
Second to Abergavenny Morning Queen in the senior brood mare class was Roger Davies’ Hywi Mari, a home-bred eight-year-old by Nebo Sion out of Hywi Rachel, and the best barren mare was the Hughes family’s five-year-old, Ionos Ffion, from their Ionos stud in the vale of Glam rgan.
Mattie Attrell had a great show. In addition to Trevallion Black Harry’s success, he also won the reserve male championship and youngstock championship with his three-year-old colt Geler Mathias, by Geler Sparc out of Geler Hannah. The reserve youngstock championship went to Peter and Ann Jones’ three-year-old Menai Miss Dynamite, a daughter of Menai Sparkling Magic and Menai Im A Cassie.
Copyright 2011, Rosemary Cooper.
Results, classes 80 - 100.
Results, classes 101 - 108.