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Willowcroft
Wizard has a long history of Royal Show wins and Champions both led
and ridden at Adelaide and Melbourne Royals. Perhaps his most
prestigious award was Grand Champion Riding Pony Exhibit at
Melbourne Royal as a two-year old in 1986. A very rewarding result
as the judge was Mrs. Davina Whiteman from the UK, producer of
eleven "Pony of the Years" and as a child was the jockey of the
wonderful Pretty Polly.
 Regal Emblem's show career started with Supreme Champion Exhibit as
a foal. At the 1999 Adelaide Royal Show, he won Supreme Champion
Riding Pony Exhibit and Champion Saddle Pony Exhibit. At the 2000
Adelaide Royal, he was Supreme in the Saddle Pony Ring and Champion
in the Riding Pony Ring. Later that year, Emblem was awarded Supreme Youngstock Exhibit at the SA Riding Pony of the Year Show in
November. In 2001, he won Supreme Champion Led Saddle Pony Exhibit
at the Melbourne Summer Royal, was a finalist at the Nationals and
won Reserve Champion Riding Pony Stallion at the Sydney Royal Easter
Show.
Emblem was campaigned again in 2003 and 2005.
At the Riding Pony Nationals in 2003, Emblem was awarded Ridden
Riding Pony Stallion of the Year after only eleven rides. In fact,
when he went to Anthony Mountney's Training Stables at Kembla
Grange, Anthony was unaware that Emblem had not been broken in.
Anthony rang Willowcroft Stud after a week or so to say that
Emblem's canter work was very green! Emblem had been ridden out
around the race track with other horses all week as if he had been
under-saddle for months. Soon after at Sydney Royal, Emblem won his
Led as well as Ridden Riding Pony Stallion. He was also Champion
Arabian Derivative Led and Reserve Champion Ridden.
At the end of the week, after just a few more rides, he was awarded
the prestigious Champion Ridden All Breeds under 14.2hh.
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