Hickstead's new look season

The 2006 season will be an important one for Hickstead. Its new format, which means starting the year with the important British Jumping Derby Meeting on June 29, will be on trial with both competitors and spectators.

At the same time, show secretary Lizzie Bunn and showing director Roger Stack will watch entries for the Longines Royal International Horse Show (July 26 - 30) with keen interest to see if their allocation of one complete day for British Skewbald and Piebald Association classes will help accommodate an expected flood of applications for the other popular showing classes.

Championships at this show are keenly contested, and a new one to watch this year will be for the National Pony Society's TopSpec Mountain and Moorland Working Hunter Ponies.

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The Derby Meeting and its famous DFS Derby, which together with the British Speed Derby last year attracted a record BBC television audience in excess of 2.1 million, will retain its new place in the calendar "for the foreseeable future" to allow for the World Championships next year and Olympics in 2008 and to accommodate BBC Television schedules.

Interest in the Longines Royal International Horse Show is spread between the showing championships, the unique Ford Ranger Eventing Grand Prix, the eight-nation Samsung Super League with FEI Competition, the British Speed Classic, the Longines King George V Gold Cup and the Queen Elizabeth II Cup.

For full story see Sussex Horse World, West Sussex Gazette, May 17

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