Where is hollys miniature shire

The points are added together and collated into tables, giving the overall winner for each category. The Ke llythorpes Leading Breeder Award recognises the unsung heroes of the showing industry — the breeders. Through the Kellythorpes Leading Breeder Awards, there will be more scope to recognise both a breeder with a number of high quality ponies that are placed in numerous qualifiers, and a smaller breeder who has bred one pony that subsequently is consistently placed throughout the season.

Please see the sections and points scale below. For both the Kellythorpes Leading Breeder and Kellythorpes Leading Sire Awards, categories for horses and ponies and the points scale is as follows:. A list of the top contenders for each series will be published at least once during the qualifying season.

These will be posted within the competitor zone section of the Horse of the Year Show website. For more information about the awards, email [email protected] or call the Grandstand Equestrian Department on Whichever of the prickly-leaved or smooth-leaved holly was first brought into the house dictated whether the husband or wife respectively were to rule the household for the coming year.

In Celtic mythology the Holly King ruled over the half of the year from the summer to the winter solstice. At this time the Oak King defeated the Holly King to rule for the time until the summer solstice again. The Holly King was depicted as a powerful giant of a man covered in holly leaves and branches, and wielding a holly bush as a club. The Green Knight of Arthurian legend may have been based on this same archetype. However the folklore of the holly is not solely connected with Yuletide festivities.

Like several other native trees people believed it had protective properties. There were taboos against cutting down a whole tree and they were often left uncut in hedges when these were trimmed.

A more arcane reason for this was to obstruct witches who people believed ran along the tops of hedges. More practically farmers used their distinctive evergreen shapes to establish lines of sight during winter ploughing. The Duke of Argyll even had a prospective road rerouted to avoid cutting down a distinctive old holly in In spite of the belief that felling of whole trees would bring bad luck, the taking of boughs for decoration, and the coppicing of trees to provide winter fodder, was allowed.

Holly leaves proved to be particularly nutritious as winter feed for livestock. Some farmers even installed grinders to make the pricklier leaves more palatable. Folklore suggested that the wood had an affinity for control, especially of horses. Most whips for ploughmen and horse-drawn coaches were made from coppiced holly, which accounted for hundreds of thousands of stems during the eighteenth century.

In Scotland the Gaelic name for holly is Chuillin. The town of Cullen in Banffshire may also have derived its name from a local holly wood.

Holly trees were traditionally planted near houses to offer protection from lightning. European mythology associated holly with thunder gods such as Thor and Taranis. We now know that the spines on the distinctively-shaped holly leaves can act as miniature lightning conductors, thereby protecting the tree and other nearby objects. Science occasionally catches up with an explanation for what may previously have been dismissed as superstition!

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