Everything Horse magazine Magazine, October 2014 | Page 11

EQUESTRIAN NEWS
took 3rd place at
the Summerhouse
Equestrian Centre SEIB
Racehorse to Riding
Horse qualifier earlier
in the season. He has
also qualified for HOYS
in the Lightweight
Hunters.
In third place and
taking the final HOYS
qualifying spot of 2014
was Sally Hayward
riding her own and her
mother, Lady Clark’s,
Midnight Chase. Sally
said, “We were pulled
in second last and
then ended up in 3rd
place. I am absolutely
overwhelmed. The
ride judge said that
Midnight Chase gave
him the best ride of
the day. When I took
Midnight Chase on, I half joked with
my daughter that my aim with him
was to look pretty hacking round the
village! He has always been such a
lovely horse and I am honoured that I
was the one to have him now he has
retired from racing”.
Sally and Midnight Chase are
entered for their first British Eventing
competition next week at Hutton

Image above: Claire Oliver and Chouxdamour Image Credit Jonathan Clarke

in the Forest. Midnight Chase also
hunts with the Cheshire Forest. Sally
continued, “My mother has owned
Midnight Chase throughout his racing
career. Trained by Neil Mulholland,
he won his first ever race at Perth
and went on to finish 5th and 6th in
consecutive years in the Cheltenham
Gold Cup. He ran for the last time
in the spring of 2013 and Dougie
Costello who rode him in many of his
races and was very fond of him said,

“Does he want to keep going”? So
we decided to retire Midnight Chase
immediately as he is very precious
to us.
Allister, Claire and Sally will compete
at The South Essex Insurance
Brokers Racehorse to Riding Horse
Championship finals at the Horse
of the Year Show, 8th – 12th October
2014, at the Birmingham NEC.
Midnight Chase and
Sally Hayward 3rd Image
Credit Jonathan Clarke

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