British showjumper Scott Brash debuted his new experience Hiya Valentino on residence soil on the London Worldwide Horse Present, and this thrilling eight-year-old stallion exhibits quite a lot of promise.
Valentino, who gained the Hiya prefix when he got here beneath the possession of Scott’s long-term backers Woman Harris and Woman Kirkham, was bred in Sweden by Tina Petersson-Lind and he’s by the stallion Diamantino.
“He was produced by Wilma Hellstrom and Ciaran Dreeling, who purchased him in Sweden when he was about 5, and we purchased him off the household about six weeks in the past,” Scott informed H&H.
“Angelica Augustsson Zanotelli may be very shut mates with Wilma and stated to me a few instances, ‘Oh you realize he’s a extremely good horse and I feel he’s very clever, check out him’. She received me to concentrate to him anyway. Then I went and tried him they usually had been excellent first impressions.”
Scott Brash: ‘He’s scopey, he’s cautious, he’s intelligent’
Scott and Hiya Valentino’s first present collectively was a CSI2* in Belgium at the beginning of December and the Olympic gold medallist stepped him as much as five-star tracks in London, the place they completed with a beautiful clear in Monday’s velocity class.
“We nonetheless want a while collectively simply to get to know each other, which is regular, so we simply must go to a couple extra exhibits,” stated Scott, who gained Sunday’s Longines FEI World Cup qualifier together with his championship horse Hiya Jefferson. “It’s nonetheless early days, however I do suppose he’s a extremely thrilling horse for the longer term. He’s scopey, he’s cautious, he’s intelligent – so there’s quite a lot of components there for a prime horse.
“We’ve been a bit in need of horses, so he’s a extremely good addition.”
Scott additionally has a beautiful new seven-year-old mare from Poden Farms, Keswichtime HV (Untouchable 27 x Numero Uno), who has been racking up a string of stylish clears in younger horse lessons.
“We’re simply attempting to construct and at all times producing the following ones – so we’ll hold attempting!” stated Scott.
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