Heronsmill Tiger Lily
Horse & Hound|June 11, 2020
Sally McMillan had no idea her home-bred filly would end the 2019 season by taking the world’s most coveted in-hand accolade – but she did. Alex Robinson speaks to the hobby pony breeder
Sally McMillan
Heronsmill Tiger Lily

NEED to know

HERONSMILL TIGER LILY

Age: four

Breeding: Chycoose Troubadour x Trellech Courvoisier

Owner/breeder: Sally McMillan

Producer: Sarah Baker

Handler: Matt McGivern

Greatest achievements: shown five times in-hand during 2019, including at HOYS where she won the Cuddy supreme in-hand championship. She landed her HOYS place at the Royal Welsh show where she’d earlier stood riding pony breeding champion. Need to know

OWNER/BREEDER SALLY MCMILLAN

“IT’S crazy to think that we qualified a homebred pony for Horse of the Year Show (HOYS), let alone won the final. I keep only five mares, including Heronsmill Tiger Lily (Lily), and I don’t breed from each every year, to keep numbers manageable, as I fit the ponies around work as a solicitor.

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