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Article: Over-age Chit Chat stripped of top title
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Bonza Chit Chat, the four-year-old winner at the British Eventing
Breeding Championships, has been found to be a five-year-old.
The horse, ridden by Marie Ryan, wife of international eventer
Matt Ryan, at the September Championships was found to have been
foaled in 1999 after a British Eventing investigation.
Now the [Pounds]1,000 first prize money has been handed back by
the rider and the horse's owner, Antoni Nabozni.
A statement issued from British Eventing reads: "A claim disputing
the age of the horse Bonza Chit Chat, ridden by Marie Ryan and
awarded the four-year-old title at the PAVO BE Breeding Championships
at Tweseldown on 14 September 2004, has been thoroughly investigated
by ...