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My love for horses emerged early in my childhood and
by age seven I was hooked! I learnt to ride on
an Arabian Pony named Hijinks who was a very successful show pony.
A short time after I started riding, I attended my first National Arabian Stud Horse show at the old Sydney Showgrounds.
This was where my love of the beautiful Arabian horse began.
Throughout my horse career I have enjoyed a tremendous
amount of success in several showing disciplines. I have produced a number of in-hand and ridden champions at State and National HOTY
and Royal Shows in open, show hunter and breeds.
I am an accomplished rider with multiple Royal Show champions to my credit, dedicated to producing a polished and correct workout. I have also
qualified a number of different horses for Grand Nationals.
My Arabian show successes include Australian Champion
and Reserve Champions under saddle, East Coast Champions and Reserve Champions, East Coast Runner Up Champion of Champions under
saddle both Purebred and Derivative, National Stud Horse Show Champions, winner of the East Coast Cup, Maxwell Sash, Jess Greenhalgh Trophy and National Capital Ridden Challenges.
My judging experience is vast having judged at many of
Australia’s Grand National qualifying shows,
Horse of the Year events, internationally at prestigious shows in
New Zealand and several notable agricultural shows in various states.
I have also had judging appointments at major Arabian shows
including the Qld Gala Show, National Arabian Stud Horse Show
and State level breed shows.
I have been on the National judging panel for Show Horse Council
of Australasia for over 10 years, a judge on the panel
of Equestrian Australia, NSW Palomino Association and previously
Level 1 Judge on the Arabian Horse Society of Australia Panel
and Riding Pony Stud Book Society Judges Panel.
The highlight of my judging career however was my recent appointment
to judge open saddle Galloways at the 2023 Sydney Royal Easter Show.
My time these days is spent in other arenas around the countryside
where I compete with my Standard Schnauzer and
Kerry Blue Terrier show dogs.
I am honoured to have been invited to judge Ridden classes at the
beautiful Willinga Park for the Inaugural 2023
Arabian Show Horse Federation of Australia Championship
and look forward to seeing many beautiful exhibits.
Graham is a Life Member of the Arabian Horse Society of Australia (AHSA) and an International Judge who has previously held positions on the AHSA Board and as Chair of the AHSA Judges and Officials Committee.
Graham is recognised as an international judge of high standing with a wealth of experience in halter, saddle and performance across many different breeds and disciplines worldwide.
He has judged at many international Arabian and open shows including the Paris World Championships, European Championships, Scottsdale, New York US Open, Las Vegas World Cup, Menton, Dubai Middle East Championships, Katara International (Qatar), Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, China, Brazil, United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Belgium, and many other countries.
He also loves judging a wide variety of saddle horse competitions and is qualified as an Equestrian Australia (EA) National Show Horse Judge and
has qualifications with the European Horse Sports Commission.
Domestically he has judged at Barastoc, EA Australasian Show Horse and Riders Championships, Southern Cross Championships and State Horse of the Year Shows and most Royal Shows throughout Australia.
Graham is delighted to be judging both saddle and halter classes at the
2023 Arabian Show Horse Federation of Australia Championship Show.
He is excited to be judging at the world class Willinga Park facility alongside other internationally recognised judges, and to be assessing some of the highest quality Arabian horses in Australia.
My journey with horses started when I was young and I always had more passion with Arabian horses. In 2008, I started my breeding program with Arabian horses.
I become a National judge in 2014 with ECAHO and in 2021 I was listed as B International judge.
In the same year i.e. 2014 I wanted to know more about horses and to increase my knowledge. Therefore I joined an institute in the United Kingdom and have graduated and obtained a diploma in horse conformation and physiology.
Almost for 5 years I was part of an Arabian horse show committee in the Kingdom of Bahrain under Bahrain Royal Equestrian & Endurance Federation.
Elyas is honoured to be judging the inaugural ASHFA Arabian & Derivative Championships along with fellow international judges.
Elyas featured in the magazine Arabian Horse Magazine, N.4/2022 you can read more about Eylas article by heading over to
https://www.arabianhorsemagazine.it/n-4-2022/
Rhod was born and brought up on an Arabian stud farm in rural west Wales. He is the younger son of the Jones family of Bychan Arabians.
He and his brother Ryan showed a mare and foal at the British Nationals when aged 11 and 12.
They won and he has not looked back.
The following year he was in Paris when the family won their first World Championship title with Aukubra - a colt named after a family judging visit to Canberra.
Rhod shows horses in Europe, the USA and the Middle East, spending the winter months mainly in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. He returns home for the summer months to show in Europe.
He won his first World Championship with his parents homebred colt Admiraal in 2018 This colt won the Triple Crown with gold wins at Paris, Aachen and the Europeans.
Rhod is married to Kimberley and has twin six year olds - Harry and Farrah. He is very much a family man and spends a lot of time helping his children experience a similar childhood to his own - pony club, hunting, showing and fun.
Rhod is very much looking forward to coming back to Australia and judging at the inaugrual ASHFA Arabian & Derivative Show Horse champuonships with fellow international Judges.
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