Wishes presented with the Twemlows British Showjumping Scholarship
Monday 10 February 2020
Twemlows Stud, one of the UK’s leading artificial insemination and embryo transfer centres, run by Edward Matson and his family in Shropshire, is very kindly supporting British Showjumping by once again offering the Twemlows British Showjumping Scholarship.
The Scholarship offers two embryo transfers to a horse that meets their chosen criteria. It is to be awarded to the highest placed British Bred mare at the end of the previous year on the British Showjumping Top Horse League. The mare must also have been eligible for British Team selection during the same period and any previous winners are disregarded.
Based on the above criteria, the 2019 Twemlows British Showjumping Scholarship has been awarded to Claire Inglis’ homebred 12 year-old mare, Wishes.
The objective of the Twemlows British Showjumping Scholarship is to encourage owners to breed from the best mares whilst they are still competing at their optimum breeding age with minimal interruption to their competition career.
Wishes claimed the scholarship following her rapid rise to success during the 2019 season with Claire’s daughter Amy. Wishes competed on two CSIO5* Senior Nations Cup teams successfully at La Baule and Hickstead and also went on to jump double clear for fourth place in the La Baule Grand Prix. Wishes was also part of the British Team that won the Les Talents Hermes Under 25 competition at the CSIO5* Saut Hermes Paris Show. These results earned Claire the British Breeders Award at the British Showjumping Awards Ball in October and also assisted Amy in gaining her place on the World Class Potential Programme Squad.
Wishes has a wealth of quality breeding, she is sired by Guidam, a Selle Francais stallion by the great Quidam De Revel. Along with Wishes, Guidam has sired many international showjumpers including Olympic Gold Medallist Authentic, ridden by USA’s Beezie Madden. Liranka, the dam, has bloodlines tracing back to stallions such as Wellington and Nimmerdor who also produced Olympic Gold Medallists.
