Riding - Another turn for Cheeky and Glen (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Riding - Another turn for Cheeky and Glen

12:08pm Thursday 5th May 2011 in Sport

GLEN Allen and Millpond Look So Cheeky are going for the Horse of the Year for the second year in a row.

Glen, 14, from Kendal, partnered the seven-year-old skewbald - owned by his aunt Kath Allen of Milnthorpe - to a repeat win in a CHAPS (UK) Hoys Qualifier at the British Show Pony Society's Winter Championships at Arena UK in Grantham.

The combination also took top awards including the CHAPS Summer Championships and the Great Yorkshire.

Glen, who goes to Kirkbie Kendal School, is also through to this year's Royal International in July.

His rides on Welsh Section B pony Windle Dark Star have brought him several wins this winter, including novice working hunter champion at BSPS Area 1B Show at Greelands and a third and fifth at the Winter Championships..

Meg Edmondson-Allen, from Kendal, qualified for the Royal International Horse Show on 10-year-old Sycamore Candy after winning the 143cm show hunter pony qualifier at the North of England Show, Osbaldeston.

She also qualified for the Cherif part-bred arab championships by finishing runner-up at the same venue.

Sycamore was winter open show pony winner and champion at the BSPS Winter Championships.

Meg, trained by her mother Bridget, also scored a double at BSPA Area 2B, Myerscough and clinched a reserve champion award.

William Heginbotham from Barrows Green rode Meynell Midnight View to take the novice working hunter championship at BSPS Area 1B, with the reserve going to James Knipe on Pebbly Goodstuff.

Meynell won the intermediate working hunter at the show and was also a winner at BSPS Area 2B, pipping his elder sister Katy on Catherston Delta Diamond.