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Great Yorkshire ShowYou are in: North Yorkshire > Entertainment > Great Yorkshire Show > Kirkby Overblofeld!  Angie and Bradley go up an over. Kirkby Overblofeld!Andrew Barton One of the big crowd pleasers at the Great Yorkshire Show is show jumping. North Yorkshire's Angie Bell and her horse Bradley (AKA Blofeld) are hoping to qualify for the event highlight, the Cock O'the North Championship on the final day.  Angie and Bradley's home Angie Bell and her horse Bradley live on a farm at Kirkby Overblow, near Harrogate. Surrounded by nature and with beautiful views of the Vale of York and the Wharfe Valley, it鈥檚 perhaps the perfect place to prepare for the show jumping event at the Great Yorkshire Show. Bradley is an 11-year-old gelding and is a sweet-natured beast. His mum was a mare called Bond Girl. He earned his bond baddie ring name, Blofeld, because he was very cheeky when young and not because he intends to form a criminal equine organization to dominate the Great Yorkshire Show.  'Just a trim please!' Angie says Bradley, is a real character: 鈥淗e loves to put his head on your shoulder and have a little cuddle. When you put him out in the field he runs round like a loony, bucking and he has a strange squeal. When he鈥檚 ready to come in he gallops round screaming.鈥 Bradley is a cheeky chap too. Angie says, 鈥淲e put all the brushes to groom and wash him on the top of his stable wall and he goes along and pushes them off one by one, you find every thing the other side of the wall.鈥  Angie and Bradley approach a jump. Bradley is in good form at the moment. He had a third and a sixth at the Bramham International Horse Trials this year. Angie is no stranger to success either. She鈥檚 competed at the Great Yorkshire Show every year for the last 20 years. She says, 鈥淚鈥檝e had years when it鈥檚 gone fantastic and others where I鈥檝e fallen off at the water jump. I鈥檝e been third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth, but never won.鈥 The highlight of the show jumping event is the Cock O' the North Championship on the final day and Angie and Bradley are hoping to qualify for it. Angie鈥檚 competed in the Cock O' the North before, but this year is Bradley鈥檚 first time.  Bradley's practice area At 16.3 hands (that鈥檚 five feet, five inches from the ground to the base of his neck) Bradley is a big horse. Angie says if he鈥檚 really going for it, she can struggle to hold him: 鈥淚f that happens, I just speak to him nicely and keep saying whoa! But normally he鈥檚 very well-mannered and when I ask him to slow down he鈥檚 normally gentleman enough to do so.鈥 But that鈥檚 not always been the case for Angie with every horse. 鈥淚鈥檝e had them run off with me in the arena and bolt on the road. When they leave you on the road it hurts, especially when you see them galloping off into the distance and you know you can鈥檛 catch them. You just have to hope they go home. Good insurance is always necessary with these animals.鈥  Angie strokes Bradley after a successful practice. With Angie鈥檚 previous successes at the Great Yorkshire Show there鈥檚 only one position, first place, which eludes her. 鈥淚鈥檇 love to win at the Great Yorkshire this year,鈥 she says, 鈥淲e鈥檒l try, he鈥檚 fast enough, if the course suits him he stands a good chance.鈥 If they win Angie says she鈥檒l celebrate with a glass of wine and Bradley will be rewarded too: 鈥淗e鈥檒l be given his favourite mint to suck, the one with the hole in the middle!鈥 last updated: 07/07/2008 at 14:56 You are in: North Yorkshire > Entertainment > Great Yorkshire Show > Kirkby Overblofeld! 5 DAY FORECAST
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