Abigail and Perfick Miss Amber
One of the horses that really caught our eye in 2015 was Perfick Miss Amber ridden by Abigail Walters at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. At just 15.1hh Perfick Miss Amber is certainly one of the smallest horses we’ve seen in a CCI4* that year but her performance proved that size isn’t everything.
In 66th place after the dressage, they rose through the ranks on the Saturday making the cross country course look like a pony club competition (watch their round on Burghley TV here), jumping clear and moving into 36th place while just four faults in the show jumping meant that they completed the event in 31st place.
Burghley wasn’t their first CCI4* competition, having completed at Pau in 2013, and Abigail is hoping to have a crack at Badminton in 2016 on the little mare owned and bred by Sue Cownley. The bay mare (who is officially measured at 15.3hh but Abigail swears she is only 15.1hh) is by Welton Ambassador out of a thoroughbred mare, Miss Perfick and has been brought through the grades by Abigail
Abigail was a member of the British Young Rider European team that won gold at Bialy Bor in 2003 and she was also the individual bronze medallist riding Uther Pendragon. We caught up with Abigail at Burghley to find out more about the pint sized Perfick Miss Amber
Abigail and Perfick Miss Amber at the first horse inspection
