SPILLERS? Manager Qualifies For Badminton Mitsubishi Motors Cup
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SPILLERS® Manager qualifies for Badminton Mitsubishi Motors Cup
When Nikki Collins isn’t busy working as Trade Sales Manager for SPILLERS® she’s diligently keeping her homebred mare Tilly fit for eventing. This year her dedication has paid off as she has qualified for the prestigious Mitsubishi Motors Cup (formerly Badminton Grassroots Championships). She attributes her passion and determination to her inspiring, horse loving Mum, who sadly lost her battle against bowel cancer in 2014.
Nikki has worked for SPILLERS® for the past 11 years, originally as a Regional Sales Manager and more recently as the Trade Sales Manager for the company’s renowned range of horse feeds. She has ridden and owned horses all her life and her ambition for the past few years has been to qualify for the Mitsubishi Motors Cup, which brings together winners from BE90 and BE100 regional qualifiers from around the country to contest the overall Championship.
Nikki and Jumbo’s Rose, known as Tilly, a seven-year-old, homebred mare by Jumbo, achieved their regional final qualification in their first season of eventing in 2014. They finished on their dressage score of 26.5 and followed this with fourth place in a challenging regional final at Solihull in August 2015, again finishing on their dressage score (31.5).
With a full time job and four-year-old twin boys Nikki has had to fit Tilly in around all her other commitments and she relies heavily on generous support from family and friends. The pair moved up to BE100 at the end of last season and Nikki hopes to get a couple of BE100 runs in before Badminton at the beginning of May.
Nikki said: “Tilly is extremely opinionated and a typical mare at times. She’s a good doer and thrives on SPILLERS® Original Balancer and SPILLERS® HAPPY HOOF® all year round and has plenty of energy! She will jump out of her field and take herself wherever she fancies, but once you are on board she is brilliant fun and loves her job! My passion and inspiration for riding has always come from my amazing Mum so this competition is as much for her as it is for me.”
The Mitsubishi Motors Cup takes place on 3rd and 4th May 2016. For friendly feeding advice please telephone the SPILLERS® Care-Line on + 44 (0)1908 226626 or visit www.spillers-feeds.com.
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