SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse

27/02/2025

Entries are NOW open for the 2025 season of SEIB Insurance Brokers Racehorse to Riding Horse.

There are just 14 qualifying places over 8 nationwide qualifying shows for the exciting SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse championship finals at Horse of the Year Show.

💜At the TSR, Stoneleigh Park qualifier, the SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse class is open purely to amateur riders. (Please see the SEIB Search for a Star rules on amateur riders for eligibility).

🐴At six of the eight SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse qualifying shows two combinations will go forward to HOYS. At the qualifiers at the National Hunter Supreme Championship Show and the NAF Five Star International Three-Day-Event just one combination at each will earn their HOYS ticket.

The 2025 SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse qualifying shows will take place at:

➡️Sunday 13th April 2025 at Hartpury College, Hartpury House, Gloucester, GL19 3BE.

➡️Sunday 25th May 2025 at Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2LZ – courtesy of The Showing Register (TSR) Championship. (Amateur riders only)

➡️Sunday 15th June 2025 at Pickering Grange Equestrian, Grange Farm, Pickering, Ellistown Terrace Rd, Ellistown, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 1EZ.

➡️Sunday 6th July 2025 at Greenlands Equestrian Centre, Wreay, Carlisle, CA4 0RR.

➡️Wednesday 6th August 2025 at Arena UK, Allington Lane, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG32 2EF – courtesy of Equifest.

➡️Sunday 10th August at NAF Five Star International Hartpury Horse Trials, Hartpury College, Hartpury House, Gloucester, GL19 3BE.

➡️Wednesday 13th August at National Hunter Supreme Championship Show, Addington Equestrian Centre, Addington, Buckinghamshire MK18 2JR.

➡️Sunday 7th September 2025 at Defender Burghley Horse Trials, Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 3JY.

➡️The 2025 SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse Championships:
Wednesday 8th to Sunday 12th October 2025 at Horse of the Year Show, Birmingham NEC.

To enter visit 🔗 www.seib.co.uk/competitions/schedule which will link directly to the Racehorse to Riding Horse entry page on Showing Scene.

08/02/2025

So true

Please guys - this mentality that you can get a thoroughbred that’s been out and about, a true allrounder, that will hack down the motorway alone, with no vices lumps bumps or sarcoids and quiet enough to put your granny on for 1000 just because it’s a thoroughbred NEEDS to stop.
A sports horse the same would be costing you 15k+!
A TB is not a lesser breed. A TB should not be given away just because it’s a TB.
I’ve had fancy warmbloods, sports horses, Spanish, Connemara’s.. and I’ve gone back to TBs for a reason.
There’s no breed that is as versatile or will work as hard for you when you push the right buttons.
No they aren’t more prone to break down, every breed can break down! The only young retired horse I have with injury issues is a Connemara! Warmbloods and sport horses are just as prone to KS, tendon and suspensories, even more prone to OCD. Welshes and cobs are prone to PSSM, or CPL. Connies are prone to having hock issues.. they are horses! It’s not breed specific that TBs are the only ones that might get injuries!
I’ve never had a TB a fraction as sharp as some of the warmbloods I’ve sat on. (And don’t ask me to sit on a cob; I won’t! I’m terrified of them!)
Even if they are racehorses, someone still has or needs to put a lot of time money and energy into making the school master you are looking for.
I’ve not found one TB that can’t be turned round into a fantastic allrounder with patience!
Time is money!
Stop undervaluing these fantastic horses and start respecting their abilities!
Picture of my wonderful crystal tiger I had for nearly 10 years who came off the track a nappy moody mare and turned into a horse of a lifetime who would jump through fire for me.

31/01/2025

23/01/2025

We thought we'd cheer ourselves up on a miserable winter's afternoon by going through the highlights from SEIB Insurance Brokers Racehorse to Riding Horse in 2024.

What a season we had 🥰 and roll on 2025!

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year from all the team at SEIB Racehorse to RIding Horse.

Here are the first provisional dates for 2025. More to follow!

13th April- Hartpury College, Gloucestershire Hartpury Equine Events
25th May -TSR, Stoneleigh Warwickshire The Showing Register (TSR)
15th June- Pickering Grange, Leicestershire Pickering Grange Equestrian
6th July- Greenlands Equestrian Centre, Carlisle, Cumbria Greenlands' Arenas
6th August- Equifest, Arena UK, Lincolnshire. Equifest

16/11/2024

Fabulous to see an SEIB Insurance Brokers Racehorse to Riding Horse Horse of the Year Show finalist parading at Cheltenham Racecourse today with their SEIB R2R sash! 👏

11/10/2024

09/10/2024

Thank you Horse & Hound: Showing and Alex Robinson 🙌

The 14-year-old Wonga Sw***er, ridden by his owner Tori Thomas, took home the 2024 SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse championship title...

09/10/2024

Massive congratulations to the SEIB Insurance Brokers Horse of the Year Show Racehorse to Riding Horse champions 2024 🙌

🏆🥇Wonga Sw***er and Tori Thomas 💜

🏆🥈First Fandango and Hannah Chisman 💜

Fabulous results and congratulations to everyone for qualifying for HOYS 💫

09/10/2024

Good Luck 🍀🍀 to everyone competing in the SEIB Insurance Brokers Horse of the Year Show Racehorse to Riding Horse championship 2024 🙌

07/10/2024

Good Luck 🍀 to all FOURTEEN combinations qualified for the SEIB Insurance Brokers Horse of the Year Show Racehorse to Riding Horse championship this week 🙌

Qualifying horses range from Group and Cheltenham Gold Cup winners through to Point-to-Pointers and horses that were never placed on the racecourse.

Along with these stunning thoroughbreds, their riders, - coming from both amateur professional ranks - will all be vying to take the SEIB HOYS Racehorse to Riding Horse Championship 2024 🐴 in the main HOYS International Arena on Wednesday morning 🥰

Good Luck to all 🏆



Cheltenham Racecourse

07/10/2024

02/10/2024

I must make it clear that I trust the SEIB Search for a Star and Racehorse to Riding Horse judges implicitly. It is ridiculous to assume that those within the small showing community are not friends outside of the show ring, but this in no way threatens the integrity of our carefully chosen, trusted judges. In addition, there is a conformation and a ride judge in the ridden classes, the decision around qualification does not come down to the opinion of just one person.

Whoever is forwarding anonymous, malicious and threatening emails to the Championship organisers, stop, or I will be forwarding all the information to the police.

Please remember that we have strict social media rules and if a competitor is seen to be bringing the series into disrepute, they will be disqualified from competing in our competitions.
Nicky

10/09/2024

CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP WINNER TAKES HOYS TICKET AT DEFENDER BURGHLEY

The 2018 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Native River was the convincing winner of the SEIB Insurance Brokers Racehorse to Riding Horse qualifier at Defender Burghley on 8 September.

In winning this high-profile class in the Main Arena on the final day of the Defender Burghley Horse Trials, Native River and his rider Jazmin Hosgood have qualified for the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse championship. Owned by Tom Malone, Native River looked a picture in the class of 20 ex-racehorses at Defender Burghley.

Ride judge Michaela Bowling said: “Our winner went amazingly, he was like an out-and-out show horse to ride.”

Conformation judge Stuart Campbell added: “It was the presentation, movement, balance, rhythm and self-carriage of the winner that set him apart. It is wonderful to see ex-racehorses becoming truly multi-purpose horses.”

Winning owner Tom Malone said: “I’m as proud as I could be of this horse, I get more pleasure than I can tell you out of this success. We set out with this as our goal and he’s gone and done it. I bought him as a four-year-old out of a yard in Ireland after he’d unseated his jockey in a point-to-point and it’s been a beautiful journey ever since.”

SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse organiser Nicolina MacKenzie said: “Wow, what a winner to have at our final qualifier of the season. The class today went off brilliantly and we were delighted to see so many stunning thoroughbreds and their riders out enjoying themselves. Huge thanks to Defender Burghley for having us here once again.”

The SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse class has been held in the Defender Burghley Arena on the final day of the horse trials since 2012.

09/09/2024

We had a fabulous final SEIB Insurance Brokers Racehorse to Riding Horse final qualifier of the season yesterday 👏 at Defender Burghley Horse Trials.

Congratulations to 🥰

🥇Native River, owned by Tom Malone and ridden by Jazmin Hosgood 🥇

🥈Wonga Sw***er, owned and ridden by Tori Thomas 🥈



C Trevor Meeks