Spring sunshine, old friends and oh so close to a Royal AGA winner at Paxford
What a contrast to Easter Monday 2014, Lydstep was my destination on that day, an eight hour round trip! This year, it was a short hop down the Fosse Way to Paxford, back home in time for tea! Lydstep was wonderful I might add, but next time I go I’m definitely staying over. Anyway, here we go again, not many words but lots of photos.
The title for this blog post mentions ‘old friends’, and here they are, Shane and Nikki Collins with their two boys
Dawn Bridgewater and her daughter, IrisJetnova, a star for the Smith-Maxwell family this seasonSunshine = a huge crowdProud mum (far right)John Smith-Maxwell and his sistersNow that’s how you celebrate!This photo made the Worcester NewsSome of the most famous colours in pointingA fairly easy day for the starter and his assistantAbs Banks took the Ladies Open on Hall Kelly, beating her sister, PhineTom Weston took the Mens Open on Ice Cool BennyPenny CoxZara Phillips and Tom DavidMark Wall goes for the rugged lookThe Equus Club get ready to celebrate after Stonefield won the AGA sponsored RestrictedGreat to catch up with this old friend, Shane Collins, he used to drink in our boozer!Ripper Rippon was on trophy duty (a favour for the AGA man)I love this photoHaving been touched off in the Restricted, Zara and Tom were about to try again in the Open Maiden (Dolly Maude and Ripper were there to cheer them on)A short head victory in the Open Maiden was consolation for a neck defeat in the Restricted10 AGA points, it was so nearly 20!
Another good day with plenty of highlights, and those famous colours – worn by Major Harold Rushton and Pat Tollit – look great in the photos (just as well Philip Smith-Maxwell prompted me to take the pics!).
David Simpson - life through a lens 