In among all the leggy and powerful warmbloods competing at the top of their game in the dressage arena, you will find a comparably diminutive mount matching it with the best.
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Jill Wagner and Royal Heartthrob, or Drover as he is known by most, are regulars on the local dressage circuit.
Drover is the little engine that could and Jill the persistent and talented owner and trainer.
A paint-bred horse, which you will often find in the rings of western disciplines, Drover and Jill, worked their way through the ranks and thrown away stereotypes to compete at an international level of dressage.
At the local Armidale Riding Club dressage championships in March, Drover and Jill were the only combination competing in the international standard tests and earned the champion honour.
They were judged by Maria Schwennesen a five star FEI judge, of which there are only 30 in the world.
They racked up scored of sixes and sevens, out of 10, for the complex piaffe and passage tour.
They finished with an overall score of 65 per cent, considered a high achievement in dressage circles.
There are three international dressage levels; small tour, medium tour and big tour.
Jill and Drover have reached medium tour and a very small number of élite Armidale riders have ever achieved higher.
That's not the only thing they have excelled at.
Now in his 20s, Drover has another competitive life as a paint horse.
Last year Jill and Drover earned the 2018 Paint High Point Masters Amateur of NSW and in top 10 of Australia.
This involves competition in dressage, showmanship, western, trail, pleasure, barrel racing and team penning events. They also scored a runners-up prize in the ranch sorting.
Drover awaits confirmation of life-time achievement High Point Award and Honor Roll Award Paint Horse Association of Australia.