Foreign Breed National Finals
APHS-FBS
Foreign Breed Society National Finals
APHS-FBS FOREIGN BREED NATIONAL FINALS CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW5th OCTOBER 2025Pickering Grange Equestrian Centre, Ellistown, Leics., LE67 1EZ.Judges:
Sally Chamberlain & Lorraine Hirons.Both judges will officiate throughout the day and both will judge the Supreme In Hand and the Supreme Ridden Championships.
Sally Chamberlain & Lorraine Hirons.
We will be holding the finals at our Foreign Breed National Finals Show on 5th October 2025 at Pickering Grange in Leics. There will be a range of classes open for qualified horses (you can qualify on the day too), plus a range of open classes for non-qualified/non-members. A sliding entry fee scheme will be in operation, with discounts on entries for members.
The 2025 schedule will be available soon and can be viewed by clicking on the Blue Box at the top of this column.
Overnight stabling, hook ups, camping & prebooked evening meal for the Saturday night should be made directly with Pickering Grange
Our official Photographers:
Dream Catcher Photography
Dream Catcher Photography
We have the Foreign Breed Veteran Championship - open to any foreign breed that has placed 1st or 2nd in any of our APHS Veteran classes during 2025.
This show is a VHS Gold Ticket Qualifier - Veteran Champion & Reserve will qualify for the 2026 VHS National Championships.
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If you would like YOUR event to be a qualifier for our National Championships, then please contact us
HERE
or use the form below.
Shows holding Foreign Breed classes (non-indigenous to GB, Northern Ireland & Eire) are welcome to apply.
These classes need to be judged under Foreign Breed Show Rules - if your class is being run under "English" rules (individual show required), then any suitably qualified Panel judge can officiate. If they are being judged under "American" rules, then a judge from the Foreign Breed Judges list, or one holding an American "R" / "r" card must be appointed to officiate.
These classes need to be judged under Foreign Breed Show Rules - if your class is being run under "English" rules (individual show required), then any suitably qualified Panel judge can officiate. If they are being judged under "American" rules, then a judge from the Foreign Breed Judges list, or one holding an American "R" / "r" card must be appointed to officiate.
For more information and/or details please get in touch.
HOW THE APHS-FBS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS WORK
To enter one of our National Finals you must have qualified and received a qualification card.
We are using a revamped system for 2025!
HOW TO QUALIFY FOR THE NATIONAL FINALS:
- At the 2025 National Finals show – the top 3 in all "Open" classes qualify, plus the two highest placed partbreds, if not in the top 3.
- You can qualify at other APHS event & at other shows around the country, from local level to county & National Breed Shows. The top 3 in affiliated shows’ Foreign Breed classes qualify. If the top 3 have already qualified, the card can be passed down the line, no lower than 6th place.
- Qualification can also be earned at any National Breed Championship Show – all Champions & Reserves qualify. Simply send us a copy of the printed results and we will post your qualification card off to you.
- You can qualify through dressage. Scoring 70% or over in unaffiliated dressage (including the dressage phase of Working Equitation), or 65% or more in BD/MCI Affiliated Dressage qualifies you for the Foreign Breed National Finals. All you need to do is take part in your dressage competition during the period of 1st Jan 2025 to 30th September 2025, gain the required scores and then submit your score sheet to us and we will post you your qualifying card.
Only ONE qualification is needed per horse for the WHOLE show (not one card per class).
The reverse of the cards must be completed and returned to APHS (36 Philpot Square, Peterborough Road, London, SW6 3HX) . There are many classes at the show for non-qualified/non-members too - so all are welcome to join us in this end of year celebration of Foreign Breeds.
If you are a show secretary who hold foreign breed classes and you would like them to be qualifiers for our Foreign Breed National Finals, please get in touch with us. To help with costs, we ask that Show Secretaries enclose an A5 SAE with their application form for return of our qualifying cards.
View our "other events" page to see a list of current qualifying shows.
WILD CARD option to qualify too.
This is an option for Judges to present in ANY class (does not have to be a Foreign Breeds class) to any pure or partbred Foreign Breed that they feel is a good representative of (that) breed. These can be in any open type competition, where ever the judge is officiating at.
If you are a judge who regularly comes across foreign breeds and would like some Wild Cards for 2025, please get in touch with us.
Please contact us
for more information.
SPONSORS AND AWARDS
A big thank you to our sponsors for this event - without the support of our generous sponsors we would not be able to bring you these great shows. If you would like to know more, or to support us at this or future events, then please see the form below, or contact us HERE
We rely on sponsors for prizes and additional bling awards, all of which help make our events special. Can you help? Please get in touch
if you would like to sponsor a class or championship at next year's (2025) Foreign Breed National Finals.
Thank you to our 20245 sponsors:
USA-UK - sponsor of an Award for the Best Saddlebred in the in hand & ridden USA Breeds classes.
UK Friesian Federation
- sponsor of the Friesian In Hand & Friesian Ridden classes and an Award to the Best Friesian in the Supreme Ridden Championships.
Lusitano Breed Society of GB - sponsors of an Award for the Best Lusitano in the in hand & ridden Iberian classes.
Appaloosa Horse Club UK
- sponsors of an Award for the Best Appaloosa in the Broken Coat/Dilutes and USA Breeds In Hand & Ridden classes.
British Morgan Horse Society
- sponsors of the in hand & ridden Morgan Horse classes and an award to the Best Morgan in both the Supreme In Hand and the Supreme Ridden Championships.
KC Saddlebreds - sponsors of the USA Breeds In Hand class.
Ridden National Purebred Champion 2021, Sonny Hillier's Tjomme W (shown by Pete Saunders) also winner of our 2021 JRL Supreme Champion of Champions
