Burythorpe breeder enjoys show success (From Gazette & Herald)

Burythorpe breeder enjoys show success

A FIVE-month-old foal, bred by a Burythorpe woman, won a top award at the Great Yorkshire Show.

Joyce Houseman's Eastern Sand Dance won the colt foal championship and the best foal in the small hunter brood mare class.

A seven-eighths thoroughbred and Irish draught offspring, sired by Classic, of Beechwood Grange Stud, its success is the climax of 20 years of breeding by Joyce, who has been showing for a decade.

She has been riding since she was three, but now concentrates on breeding and showing. At this year's Lincolnshire Show, Joyce won a second in the championship with Eastern Silver Sand and has had second and third awards with her stock at the Great Yorkshire, and a first at a Royal Show.

Meanwhile, her partner David, who specialises in breeding and showing Shire horses, won third prize in the agricultural horses turnouts at the Harrogate show.

Before they moved to Burythorpe three years ago, they farmed at Seaton Ross.

"We have had a marvellously successful year," said Joyce.

Amongst the other local successes at the show -

HORSES

Mixed mountain & moorland champion - Mrs P Emsley, Scarborough;

Ponies open breeding, best young pony - Mrs E M Downie, Ayton.

SHEEP

Leicester

Champion - B W & D J Glaves & Sons, Scarborough;

Best male and reserve - B W & D J Glaves & Sons;

Best female reserve - B W & D J Glaves and Sons.

Suffolk

Reserve champion - A E Glaves, Scarborough;

Best male - A E Glaves.

CATTLE

British Simmental

Reserve best male - J T & G Smith, Pickering;

Reserve junior champion - J T & G Smith.

Blond D'Aquitaine

Reserve junior champion - F H & Mrs J R Fairburn, Helmsley.

Updated: 11:45 Wednesday, July 16, 2003