2004

Here you can read about the major show events of 2004:

1.   The National Grading show in August

2.   The Roskilde Agricultural Show in June

3.   The Youngstock show at Dorthealyst in April

1. The greatest showing event of 2004 was The National Grading show (7th & 8th August). Even if the agricultural show in Roskilde was absolutely formidable (read more below)  -  yet we had so admit that the Grading show even topped that!

During the grading on Saturday Julie’s super-filly Valhallas Hazel again ended up first an was graded in 1st Class as all her sisters out of Rotherdale Heiress! Sundays showclasses also ended up in great success:

 Photo: Laila Larsen

Hazel again won her class and thus qualified for the championships: She was Youngstock Champion, res. Female Champion og res. Supreme Champion.

 Photo: Laila Larsen

Valhallas Jennifer (Hillary’s filly foal) had her show debut and finished 2nd in her class.

 Photo: Laila Larsen

The progeny group out of our 16 year old foundation mare Rotherdale Heiress was awarded the very seldom and magical maximum-points:  1st Class 1st Degree 24 points  -  and an outstanding description; fantastic!!! And ”good old” Heiress even took part in the show herself, even if she had ended her very successful show ring carrier 6 years ago (in 1998). It as obvious to everybody, that she thoroughly enjoyed her ”revival” and she looked really well in the ring where she finished second  -  only beaten by her own daughter, Hillary!

On top of this the show also included the new tradition: The Danish Championship for studs, where we took part with the 3 Valhallas females: Hazel, Cherry & Hillary. After a very close race with the sec.B ponies from the Bjerregaard stud we finished 1st. Thus the 3 mares secured us the 3rd National Stud Championship in 5 years!

 Photo: Laila Larsen

But the greatest of them all is still Hillary!!

She again won her show class (beating her dam), and then she went all the way to the top as Female Cob champion, Supreme Cob Champion and BEST-IN-SHOW!

 Photo: Laila Larsen

Thus Hillary secured herself a page in the Danish/Welsh history books: She is the first Welsh (of any section) to have won the National Overall Supreme title 3 times!! (in 2000, 2002 & 2004).

2. The other great event of the summer was Roskilde Agricultural show d. 4th – 6th June:

We participated with 4 entries and all 4 ended up as the representatives of the Welsh breeds in the Interbreed championships. And here they did extremely well, as we ended up with these results:

Valhallas Hazel: 24 points (maximum), a special prize and the title as Best 3-year-old filly of the show!!

Trevallion Lady Lillian: Nr. 1 med 24 points and a special prize; 3rd in the finals for Overall Female Championship of the show.

Valhallas Maggie May: 22 points; 5th in the finals for the Overall 2-year-old filly championship.

Valhallas Lord Mathrafal: Chosen as the best Welsh foal; unplaced in the overall finals

Here are some photos from the successful weekend in Roskilde:

Hazel & Tina in one of the parades

Lady in the Overall Female Championship (Interbreed competition).

Maggie in front of one of the parades

Valhallas Lord Mathrafal  -  colt foal by Menai Sparkling Imperial & out of Lady

Hazel winning the Overall 3-year-old filly championship!

Maggie during the finals

3. The show season 2004 started in April with the Youngstock show at Dorthealyst:

We showed the yearling filly Valhallas Victoria, who won her class.