Annual Prize Giving at Capel Manor

Pictured above: Senior Warden Julian Leach presents the first prize for Best Year One Martingale to Bonnie Dale

At the Capel Manor Student Awards and Graduation Ceremony held on 6th July, the Senior Warden, Julian Leach, stood in for the Master to present the six prizes awarded annually to students of the Capel Manor School of Saddlery and Leathercraft. The prizes are awarded to Year 1 students who are invited to make a simple harness martingale, which is a piece of harness designed to control the head carriage of a horse, and to Year 2 students who are invited to make a more complex harness bridle.

This year the Coachmaker prizes were sponsored by Freedman Harness of Toronto and the winners were as follows:

Prize for Best Year Two Harness Bridle:

1st: Charlotte Sheppard
2nd: Regina Mitchell
3rd: Angelica Strong

Prize for Best Year One Harness Martingale

1st: Bonnie Dale
2nd: Filip Lazic
3rd: Samuel Tierney