126 SIDELINES JANUARY 2014
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
By Maria Wynne
Sidelines Writer Across the Pond
Golden girl Emily Llewellyn is only 24 years old and has been
winning gold medals for the Great Britain three-day event team
for the last decade. Her career began on a wonderful chestnut
pony called Ballyduff Rusty and she has progressed through the
ranks of Pony, Junior and Young Rider to compete brilliantly at the
CCI**** level with consistent results. In this time, she has won six
gold, one silver and two bronze medals. She is also the only rider
to have ever won collectively the U16, U18, U21 and U25 National
Championships.
Emily has already completed three Badmintons, all with a top
25 placing, along with being Best British U25 rider each year.
In 2011, Emily produced a fourth clear cross-country on Pardon
Me II. She has also been listed as a reserve for the Senior
Championship Team for the last two years whilst still being part
of the youth category, and was the Olympic Test Rider in 2012 on
Pardon Me II.
So when the long legged, beautiful, gritty, determined, blonde
Emily comes out on a young stallion people sit up and take notice
– especially one as upstanding, handsome, correct and as full of
presence as Bueno Uno.
Emily recounts that she was not particularly looking for a
stallion, but when she saw him and tried him there was, “Just
something that I fell in love with. He has great character and is
beautiful to ride!”
Bueno Uno is a Dutch Warmblood by Numero Uno out of
a River Man dam and has a relaxed, calm and hardworking
temperament. He is so easy that Emily has travelled him to events
in a little two-horse lorry along
with a mare, and he always
remained
unperturbed
and just concentrated on
the job at hand – that of
competing. His enthusiasm,
ethic and attitude meant that
he was rarely unplaced and
his competition record can
be seen on Emily’s website
.
He won many BE100’s,
Novice Classes, two CIC*
(one star), was second in
another CIC* and sixth in his
first ever Intermediate. He
was also third in the
National
Five-Year-Old
Championships.
Not many young ladies
take on a stallion for obvious
reasons. Handling them,
stabling them, the chaos
that their presence tends to
cause, can be a struggle –
e
The Golden Girl And Her
Gorgeous Stallion
Emily and Bueno Uno
Photos by Maria Wynne
Emily and Bueno Uno prove they are a winning combination.
and yet Bueno Uno was always a model resident on Emily’s yard
in Sussex.
A year after buying him, Emily decided to move in with her
boyfriend, Max Routledge, of
a fellow
rider who is a successful polo player and show jumper. He stables
show jumping stallions on his yard with full stud facilities. Emily’s
own personal love story led to Bueno Uno being kept entire
(happily for him) and he has continued to be a smart and
consistent performer along with performing stud duties, and, as
Cindy Llewellyn (her mum) says, “He does make beautiful babies!”
About the writer: Maria Wynne has spent her entire life with horses and her family
background is steeped in them. She is a proud (single) Mum of the an adorable five-
year-old son named Theodore Denman, who is named after the 2008 Cheltenham
Gold Cup Winner.
