HARRY KIRKPATRICK

Show Jumping

About

Harry is a 16 year old show jumper based in East Kent. He started competing at local unaffilated level on borrowed ponies in spring 2020. Talented but very tall, Harry had outgrown all the ponies he could use by July 2020.

The family acquired the very experienced 16hh Mia on loan to give Harry some affiliated experience. Mia had been-there-and-done-that, competing at all the major novice championships, so she was an ideal starter horse.

Unfortunately he grew out of Mia much faster than anticipated and in and in March 2021, Mia was retired to enjoy her days relaxing in a 15 acre field.

In December 2020 the family got their first horse a then 7 year old 17hh Voltaires Quick Star, who is affectionally known as Frank.

Frank was bred at the infamous old stud lodge and comes from the Voltaire Quickstar line which includes successful Olympic horses, such as Nick Skelton’s Big Star.

With both horse and rider being so inexperienced, thier first year and half together was full of learning curves and a lot training. But, they had some amazing highlights becoming part of the Kent Team and winning the teams intermediate Amateur National British Showjumping Championships in 2021 after only being together for 8 months.

In June 2022 the five year old 18.1hh Tiny joined the team as Harry’s big track horse. Although the partnership is very new, Tiny is definitely one to watch.