Horse & Hound

Like father, like son

LANCASHIRE-BASED Sandra Burton experienced a moment of intense déjà vu when she was crowned Corroconsult British Show Pony Society (BSPS) Heritage mountain and moorland (M&M) supreme with Connemara stallion Aniar Cashel, five years after she won the same accolade with his sire.

It was a spectacle to be witnessed as Sandra, champion here in 2017 with Banks Timber (Tim), graced the Longines International Arena with the nine-year-old, who bears a striking resemblance to his father.

“He was a very typey,

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