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Ask any showy and they’ll tell you that to win a Champion title at Sydney Royal is to achieve an ultimate ambition. The prestige of the show, the atmosphere of the main arena and the show crowds watching on, for most riders it’s the culmination of months, even years of hard work and preparation.

It was this and more for Australian Stock Horse competitor and Kelato sponsored rider Jaci Mascord Norris, who last month won the highly-coveted Champion ASH Hack title with four year old Glenn Lee Rivoli Lynx. Ask Jaci though and she’ll probably say she just wishes she could remember it! “It’s a total blur, even though I thought he’d worked out well in the Champion class, we were against some seriously successful horses, I look at the photos now and can’t even remember the moment, I just couldn’t believe it was happening.”

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While receiving the garland was a wonderful shock, Jaci is no stranger to showing at Royal level, having first competed at both Sydney and Canberra Royal when she was just six. The 30 year old has lived and breathed stock horses since she was a toddler and has ridden at state and national level ASH events. Both her mum Vicki Mascord and grandmother Reva Flint are well known in the Stock Horse community and have also won blue ribbons at Sydney. This was the first Champion sash in the family though, and what made it particularly special for Jaci was the fact that she achieved the win on a horse she has worked with since buying him as a lightly handled yearling.

Jaci’s journey with Lynx began in 2013. Her plan for the Heritage Australian Stock Horse was to take him through the ASH Futurity events starting as a yearling through to open competition. The partnership has also led to Jaci becoming an ambassador and sponsored rider for Kelato Animal Health as she sought advice on ways to ensure optimum health and wellbeing for Lynx in his important early years of growth and as his training increased. “It was over a year ago now. We were working hard, had some big shows coming up including Bathurst Royal and I was told about ZanoBOLIC. I tried it hoping to maximise Lynx’s condition and it couldn’t have worked any better. He looked a million dollars and I was especially pleased that it didn’t change his temperament.”

The link between horses feeling good and performing well is one Jaci believes in wholeheartedly and she’s been very particular about balancing Lynx’s schooling with diet and carefully chosen nutritional supplements. There’s no doubt that overall appearance plays an important part in any showing situation and for Jaci, ZanoBOLIC has been a key to this. “Whenever he’s in work, Lynx is on ZanoBOLIC. It’s helped develop great top-line, I’ve also noticed his colour has deepened, he’s shiny and he maintains that condition right through show season, without clipping or using lights.”

Their Champion win at Sydney Royal was a fairytale moment but also recognition of a quality, healthy horse, beautifully schooled and in immaculate condition. For Jaci, the reality is still sinking in, especially considering she was hoping simply for a call-in in one of their classes, unsure that Lynx was going to be able to handle the atmosphere. The moment he tried to eat the garland, assured her that he was indeed coping just fine!

After competing during the next few months at some smaller ASH shows and local events around Orange where Jaci lives with husband Andrew Norris, Lynx will enjoy a bit of time out until the show season kicks off again in September. “I’m really lucky, when we have breaks in training he doesn’t seem bothered at all and just picks up where we left off. The best thing is that I know that with Kelato’s fantastic products he’s going to be looking good and feeling great when I take his rugs off!”

Kelato Animal Health is proud to sponsor Jaci Mascord Norris and Glenn Lee Rivoli Lynx and congratulates them on their Sydney Royal Champion ASH Hack title.

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