Horse & Hound

Picasso’s picture-perfect

London International Horse Show, Olympia

SOME 19 years after making her Olympia debut with the four-year-old Dartmoor mare Dykes Daisy Mead, newlywed owner/producer Emma Burrow (née Boardman) landed her first LeMieux British Show Pony Society mountain and moorland supreme ridden title ahead of possibly the strongest competition field to date.

Her nine-year-old Welsh section D gelding Dyffryngwy Sir Picasso, a canny £600 purchase from Brightwells Sales as a foal, proved his worth yet again with good conformation scores from both judges, sealing a foot-perfect, expressive show performance which managed to contain his undoubted presence and forward-going type with perfect manners and

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