Show jumper Sam Hutton from Southampton is looking forward to the start of the new season after the arrival of his new horse, Astral.
Sam (20), a successful show jumper, is on the British Equestrian Federation’s UK Sport funded World Class Development Programme - which works with talented riders to maximize their potential and deliver success.
Astral was chosen to help strengthen Sam’s chances of success in the future and brings Sam’s number of horses to three. The eight-year-old bay gelding, by Argentus was acquired by former Olympic show jumper, Tony Newbery on behalf of a new owner, and is stabled at his international training centre in Hampshire where Sam is based. He joins Sam’s existing top rides Olympia III and Valentino VII, both owned by Sharifa Al-Homaizi.
“I’ve only had Astral for four months and I’m really looking forward to producing him this year through to Grand Prix level,” said Sam. “He is a very brave, scopey and careful horse and I am really pleased with his progress in the short time I have been riding him. He was placed in both the World Class Development Under 23 and PCA (Premier Centre Association) Rising Stars qualifiers for this year’s British Open where I am hoping to compete him. My main focus, however, will be the European Championships and I will be taking him to the under 21 trials later this year. I have high hopes for him.”
The World Class Programme incorporates the three Olympic sports of dressage, eventing, show jumping and the Paralympic sport of para-equestrian dressage. It comprises the Performance and Development programmes plus the Equine Pathway.
The aim of the Programme is to have in place a sustainable system that can deliver more medals on the international stage now and in the future. The Programme has been funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, through Exchequer and National Lottery funds, via UK Sport since 1998.
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