The 2024 Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) presented by MARS Equestrian™ continued on Tuesday, October 22, with the culmination of the professional hunter divisions. Hunt Tosh of Milton, GA, and Cannon Creek, owned by the Wheeler Family, added yet another accolade to their successful partnership with the Grand Champion Hunter award.
Tosh and Cannon Creek are three-time winners of the USHJA International Hunter Derby National Championships and have won plenty of championships at major shows but this is the horse’s first grand championship at WIHS. To achieve this, they won three classes in the High Performance Hunters along with a third place, which gave them the division championship. They were also awarded with the Protocol Trophy for their success in the High Performance Hunter division at the Devon Horse Show, Pennsylvania National Horse Show, and WIHS.
“I’ve been lucky to have great horses in my career, and it’s been fun winning all we have, but every day there is that next class you want to win,” said Tosh. “To be grand champion here is special and especially with this horse because he deserves it. He keeps doing it and keeps giving, so that’s the great thing about him. He was spectacular.
“We don’t have to show him that much so we can pick and choose where we show him each year and tweak his schedule a bit,” continued Tosh of the 13-year-old Holsteiner gelding (Canara) he has ridden for four years. “It’s been four years with him, and he’s such a special horse.” Grand
