Diana Whittome winning Princess Muna saddle of Honour 2014 Photo: Anne Brown
The Premium Performance Scheme is very sad to report the untimely death of the instigator of the PPS and former Chair, Diana Whittome on 26 February.
Her loss will be felt throughout the Arabian horse community and beyond, where her knowledge, experience and integrity have been so valued. As an international judge, an Honorary Governor of the AHS, a long-time Council member, owner of the Coed-y-foel Stud, and most recently, the very first recipient of the Society's 'Lifetime Achievement Award', she was universally respected and will be missed by everyone.
RIP, dear Diana, you are irreplaceable.
Anne Brown - Chair PPS
2023 Endurance Awards
Hope is the endurance highpoint PPS progeny horse for 2023 ridden owned and bred by Fiona Griffiths and Alex Powell
This year we had 59 PPS progeny signed up with Endurance GB and/or SERC.
Congratulations go to PPS Endurance Sire of the Year (the late) Chatanz owned by Lesley Dunn, Warrens Hill Arabians.
FEI Highpoint horse sired by a PPS stallion is also Hope by Chatanz.
Highpoint first season Novice sired by a PPS stallion is Warrens Hill Jzamal by Chatanz, owned and ridden by Victoria Atkinson.
The Top Ten
1st Hope
by Chatanz
ridden by Fiona Griffiths and Alex Powell
2nd Heritage Silver Moon
by Vadeer
ridden by Sarah Perkins (SERC)
3rd Dizzy Miss Lizzy
by Sisyrinchium
ridden by Wendy Everson
4th Ty Shute Golden Savannah
by Chatanz
ridden by Saffron Bishop
5th Cumbria Black Mohawed
by Al Sood
ridden by Gill Main (SERC)
6th Oakleazefarm Czelect
by Czarus
ridden by Louise Rich
7th Mandarine
by Sambist
ridden by Kathy Carr
8th Tannasg Storm
by Psyches Boy
ridden by Kathy Carr
9th Paulownia
by Sisyrinchium
ridden by Sarah Edmond
10th Tannasg Psyonny
by Psyches Boy
ridden by Fionnghuala and Seonaid Paterson (SERC)
2023 Racing Awards
Congratulations go to PPS Racing Sire of the Year Vadeer, owned by Jane Marson.
Vadeer's son Heritage Valentino, owned by Mrs R B Skepper, is the 2023 PPS Race Horse of the Year.
(4 PPS progeny competed. Points are awarded for placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a race.)
New Premium Merit Stallions
The AHS is delighted to welcome two more Premium stallions to the breeding pool:
ALONZO, a handsome 15.3hh champion under saddle is now a Premium Ridden Merit stallion, at stud in Berkshire.
Photo: Peter and Marilyn Sweet
The grey PSY DREAM, based in Essex, has earned AHS Premium Merit stallion status through his fine ridden progeny.
Premium Breeders of the Year 2021 and 2022
The AHS congratulates these dedicated breeders.
The Purebred Arabian Breeder for 2022 is Paul Simmons, with his home-bred racing stallion Zayin Zachilles, this year's WAHO Trophy winner.
The 2022 Part Bred and Anglo winner is Kirsty Wiscombe, breeder of both Yawl Hill Freya (who has successfully competed in 100km one star endurance races this year), and her Premium stallion, Yawl Hill Big Yin, who has competed in a 120km two star endurance race.
The 2021 Partbred and Anglo Award goes to Lesley Dunn, breeder of last year's European Endurance Champion, Warrens Hill Chayze, an Anglo Arab gelding, now competing in Spain.
The 2021 Purebred Arab Breeder is the Hon Finn Guinness for breeding Biddesden Palikari who successfully completed the tough 2 day NaStA Stallion Performance test.
2022 Endurance Awards
TY SHUTE GOLDEN SAVANNAH is the endurance highpoint PPS progeny horse for 2022 owned and bred by the Bishop family.
This year we had 65 PPS progeny signed up with Endurance GB and/or SERC.
Congratulations go to PPS Endurance Sire of the Year (the late) Chatanz owned by Lesley Dunn, Warrens Hill Arabians.
FEI Highpoint horse sired by a PPS stallion is Yawl Hill Big Yin by Yawl Hillbilly, ridden owned and bred by Kirsty Wiscombe.
Highpoint first season Novice sired by a PPS stallion is Kaymeleon by Kayeed, ridden by Carina Kane.
The Top Ten
1st Ty Shute Golden Savannah
by Chatanz
ridden by Saffron Bishop
2st Krakatau
by Sisyrinch
ridden by Linda Cowperthwaite
3nd Mandarine
by Sambist
ridden by Kathy Carr & Rachel Huxford
4rd Hope
by Chatanz
ridden by Fiona Griffiths
5th D'Hab
by Dhruv
ridden by Antony Sargent
6th Yawl Hill Big Yin
by Yawl Hillbilly
ridden by Kirsty Wiscombe & Sarah Ollis
7th Dizzy Miss Lizzy
by Sisyrinchium
ridden by Wendy Everson
8th Saphire
by Sambist
ridden by Lisa Wilkinson
9th Yawl Hill Freya
by Yawl Hillbilly
ridden by Kirsty Wiscombe
10th Kingsmeadowhouse Lomu
by Al Sood
ridden by Katie Sales
2022 Racing Awards
Congratulations go to PPS Racing Sire of the Year Vadeer, owned by Jane Marson.
Vadeer's son Heritage Valentino, owned by Mrs R B Skepper, is the 2022 PPS Race Horse of the Year.
2021 Futurity Evaluations
Congratulations to the AHS Premium progeny, who gained awards in the 2021 Futurity Evaluations:
Winners of Gold Premiums in the Endurance section include Esther Groen's two homebred colt foals from her AHS Premium Ridden Merit Stallion Watt du Colombier:
VOLTAGE AKHDHAR and ELEKTRIK AKHDHAR;
and an Aurilla Gold grandson, Emma Chiver's homebred 2-year old gelding SEREN AUROS by DANDINI.
Winners of Silver Premiums in the Endurance section include Louise McLean's homebred filly foal ULAIDH DEARG by PSYCHES BOY.
New AHS Premium mare SB Champagne Lilli with her 2021 colt SB Fames Mahiki by Premium stallion Fames Dakota
New AHS Premium mares with their 2021 Gold Futurity colts Elektrik Akhdhar and Voltage Akhdhar
Dressage competitor Mellway Silver Sheen joins the exclusive band of AHS Premium mares
August 21: Northern Endurance Ride Wins
In the Cairngorms 100 Miler (this year only 75 miles), the AHS Premium stallion Psyches Boy sired both the 75-mile & Best Condition winner: Tannasg Psyonny
(Psyches Boy x Fair Destiny), and the 50-mile winner: Tannasg Galileo (Psyches Boy x Irenka).
Congratulations to the Patersons for breeding these wonderful horses and to the winning riders.
Grainne Paterson on Tannasg Galileo Photo: Kenneth MacArthur/KDM Photography
Fionnghuala Paterson on Tannasg Psyonny Photo: Kenneth MacArthur/KDM Photography
July 2021: Welcome to MARATHON WINNER
Buckleberry Habiba is the latest pure Arab mare to join the exclusive band of AHS Premium mares.
Owned, bred and ridden by Elizabeth White, Habiba competes in 120km Endurance races and won the 2018 AHS Marathon, when she was eight.
Habiba is by Toman out of Ter Waele Hanan and lives in West Sussex
Buckleberry Habiba Photo: West End Photography
Tizzie White, wins 2018 AHS Marathon on Buckleberry Habiba Photo: West End Photography
New Premium Stallion for 2021
The Premium Performance Scheme welcomes the top class race horse and racing sire Ontario HF to the list of AHS Premium stallions.
He will stand at stud for live cover in Great Witley, Worcestershire until August 2021.
Frozen semen available thereafter, stored with Stallion AI Services.
To replace the fine stallions we have lost through old age in recent years,
the AHS is now inviting ridden stallions to join the Scheme,
based on their own high-achieving performance in Affiliated competition.
Application is free for the next few months.
The Scheme encourages mare owners to use AHS Premium stallions by providing monetary rewards on registration of foals
with the AHS, and providing awards for the leading progeny of Premium stallions in Endurance, Racing and Dressage.
For rules and application form
DRESSAGE AWARD FOR LEADING PREMIUM PROGENY
New for 2021: The Premium Performance Scheme has launched a new Award for members,
in conjunction with British Dressage, to reward the Highest Points Premium progeny
in affiliated Dressage competition.
Results must come from BD tests or the AHS Championship Show dressage classes,in the current year.
Entry is free to all AHS members owning or riding a Premium progeny horse, which is registered with the AHS.
Either download the entry form below or contact the AHS office: passports@arabhorsesociety.org
and return by 7 January 2022 to the AHS office, addressed to the PPS.
Scores will be calculated by the PPS committee and results posted on the AHS site and the PPS site,
with rosettes to the Champion and Reserve.
For application form
Have you qualified your Dressage horse for the BD Arab Dressage Championships - 10th to 14th November at Bury Farm, Bucks?
June 2021: Premium Progeny - Avonbrook Odin
Avonbrook Odin by Arab Premium stallion Marcus Aurelius storming around the Sapey 100cm course
Avonbrook Odin Photo: TopShots
June 2021: New Premium Status Mares
We are delighted that the following mares have achieved Premium status and we welcome them to the Premium Performance Scheme:
Themis Aya
Mirjana
Druimghigha Lantana
Magic
PS Silvern Rose
Arktic Ayres
Tilana S
Rhevelation
Tannasg Amber
Does YOUR mare qualify? Ridden success in major competition, or the successes of at least two offspring under saddle is normally sufficient.
There is no charge, and there are many advantages prizes and awards when competing under saddle,
and a financial Premium when breeding in the future to a Premium Performance stallion. What value!
Check out the rules, then download the form (from "Forms" in left-hand menu),
and send it with your mares details to Jane Ponsonby at the AHS in Agriculture House, marked "Premium Performance Scheme".
2020 PPS Rosette Awards
PPS rosettes were awarded to the two Gold Premium PPS progeny from the 2020 national Youngstock Evaluations.
These went to:
Heritage Valentino by AHS Premium stallion Vadeer (owned and bred by Jane Marson); Kamelliya out of NaStA-graded Premium Performance mare Kamillah (owned and bred by Anne Brown), pictured
Kamelliya Yearling filly at Gadebrook Arabian Stud
2019 Racing Awards
We congratulate My Boy Sam on winning the Premium "High Points Race Horse of the Year" title for 2019,
and the sire, the Premium stallion Sambist, on winning the "Racing Sire of the Year" award for a further year.
My Boy Sam is out of CV Tulee and owned by the James Owen Racing Club.
2019 Endurance Awards
This year we had 79 PPS progeny signed up with Endurance GB and/or SERC.
Congratulations go to PPS Endurance Sire of the Year Chatanz
and to Ty Shute Golden Savannah by Chatanz out of Safwa, PPS Endurance Progeny of the Year.
FEI Highpoint horse is Tannasg Psyches Realm by Psyches Boy out of Ringing Realm
The Leading first season Novice, sired by a PPS stallion, is Yawl Hill Freya by Yawl Hillbilly out of Connie.
June 2021: Premium Progeny - Zaafir Ibn Mukhtar
Zaafir Ibn Mukhtar is by AHS Premium stallion Mukhtar Ibn Eternity out of AHS Premium mare Zyta.
Both sire and dam are also WAHO trophy winners
Zaafir Ibn Mukhtar"s victory at National Foal Championships in 2019;
Zaafir Ibn Mukhtar
Welcome to two Advanced Endurance mares
The Premium Performance Scheme is delighted to welcome two fine Advanced endurance horses to swell the ranks of AHS Premium mares,
both sired by AHS Premium stallions and both with high percentage Crabbet bloodlines.
The 11-year old chestnut DIZZY MISS LIZZY (Sisyrinchium x Marbon Mayfly) is owned,
bred and ridden by Wendy Everson,
and the 10-year old grey S A KHINDRED SPIRIT (Crystal Magic x Nahema) is owned and ridden by Pam Jordan, and bred by Spirit Arabians.
Dizzy Miss Lizzy CER at Boyton Hall 2019 Photo: Event To Event Photography
S A Khindred Spirit 2019 Welsh Champs - 3rd in 80kms. Photo: J D Pet Photography
Well done on your ridden achievements so far, ladies, and warmest wishes for the future. Have fun choosing stallions for your mares!
Dressage Champion
Congratulations to Natalie Tindall, the 2019 Elementary Pure Arab Dressage Champion with her Crabbet mare PS Aurora Silk
by the AHS Premium Performance stallion Marcus Aurelius at the Nettex BD Associated Championships on 1 November.
AHS President Alec Knott and Premium Performance Scheme Chairman Anne Brown presented her winner’s sash.
New Premium Stallions for 2019
We are delighted to welcome two exciting new stallions to the Premium Performance Scheme for 2019.
AURILLA GOLD
Pure Bred Arab stallion, foaled in 1991, 15.3hh, Grey
By Elegant Gold ex Silver Auriole by Silver Scimitar
Aurilla Gold was reimported to the UK in 2017, after a very successful career in the Netherlands, where he competed at Advanced Medium winning against the Dutch Warmbloods. He was also on the Advanced European Circuit and was trained to Prix St George. He competed at the Arabissimo competition, which is the Dutch Arab stallion performance grading, where he had to show jump, go cross country and gallop. He was third in the mono dressage and in the dressage, as part of the all round competition he became European Champion Class winner.
He has a lovely temperament and is very fertile.
His Pure Bred Arabian offspring excel in all ridden disciplines, including FEI 2* & 3* Endurance and he has been a popular sire for Warmblood dressage mares in continental Europe.
He is SCID, CA and LFS clear.
DREAM ON
Oldenburg stallion, foaled in 2002, 16.2hh, Black
by Depardieu ex Pavedena by Lavauzelle
Dream On is approved in some of the most prestigious sport horse studbooks in the world, Oldenburg, Westphalian,
British Rhineland and Anglo European Studbook (Elite). By Depardieu (De Niro) x Lavauzelle AA,
Dream On carries 66% AA/TB blood, making him an excellent dual purpose stallion.
Dream On imparts his superb temperament, correct athletic frame and expressive paces to his offspring.
He has proven himself as a sire of offspring of outstanding talent and trainability, with dressage horses competing to Grand Prix,
FEI Showjumpers competing at S level, FEI Eventers, a silver medal winning FEI carriage driving horse and County level showing champions.
Dream On himself competed in the Bundeschampionate as a showjumper and is dressage trained to small tour..
This year he was very well represented on the Elite Foal Tour with 2 foals awarded regional champion
and 2 awarded regional reserve champion.
One of which was also awarded Elite Foal Premium at this years Futurity scoring 9.225.
Contact James Coombs-Gyde:
james.jcequine@gmail.com
