Welsh Cobs at the
Royal Welsh Show.
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The Showground, Builth Wells, Powys.
18th-21st July 2016.
Rosemary Cooper.
This year's winner of the Prince of Wales Cup for the Supreme Champion Welsh Cob was Phillipa Owens' Cascob Brenin Dafydd, a three-year-old colt shown by Gethin Williams. A bay with a star and four white feet, he is by Gwenllan Deio out of the Cascob Dafydd Ddu mare Cascob Heledd, described on the Wesh Pony and Cob Society's website as "possibly one of the best and most prolific mares ever bred at Cascob". Supreme champion at the Glanusk Stallion Show in 2015, Brenin Dafydd belongs to Phillippa Owens and family, of Presteigne.
Reserve Supreme Champion was the Pearce family's Rhencullen Princess, a bay with two white hind feet who won the senior brood mare class. A 12-year-old from their Glyncoch stud in Carmarthenshire, she is by Menai Cosmos, a direct descendant of the famous Nebo Black Magic, out of Thorneyside Duchess by Brenin Brynawelon, born as long ago as 1968 - these are long-lived horses.
Reserve male champion was the Rhydeilian Stud's senior stallion, Trefaes Black Flyer, a black eleven-year-old by Gwynfaes Culhwch out of
Trefaes Black Pearl, a daughter of Trefaes Toreth.
This year's Cob classes featured as many as 44 wonderful Welsh Cobs to a class; however Cascob Brenin Dafydd didn't progress to the title of Royal Welsh Supreme in-hand Champion. That honour went to a mare whom I've seen win one championship after another ever since her two-year-old days; Jim Yates' seven-year-old bay Shire, Sheepwash Derbyshires Eventide (Evie). If you like a Welsh connection; Evie's sire was Trem-y-Wyddfa Mascot, bred by the late W H Griffith of Snowdonia.
RESULTS.