Tuesday May 22, 2012
Eventing

Contact for Eventing information Jo Whitmore 07803 944306

or email joanne.whitmore1@btinternet.com

Area Eventing 2012

Area Eventing 14th/15th  July At Burghley Park

Hosted by the Burghley Pony Club

Event Training Dates – Open to any member, training is not just for team selection.

  • Monday May 7th 2012 Danethorpe Cross Country 10.30 to 12.30 and 1 to 3 if enough people book in £20
  • 19th May event training
  • Wednesday June 6th Epworth Equestrian Centre (speed) 10.30 to 12.30 and 1 to 3 if enough people book in £22
  • June 23rd Charlie Hoods including SJ and Team selection for the area teams 10.30 to 12.30 and 1 to 3 £25.

Any one interested in any of the above training sessions please contact Jo Whitmore details at the top of this page.

AREA EVENTING 2011

SATURDAY 30 JULY – OPEN AND INTERMEDIATE

SUNDAY 31ST – NOVICE

This year 2011 the Fernie Pony Club are the hosts for the eventing competition it is held at ROLLESTON HALL, ROLLESTON, LEICS, LE7 9EN

Novice (Level 3) - Dressage Test – Pony Club Novice Eventing Test 2006.  Show jumping and Cross country are maximum height 3’ (90cm)

Intermediate (Level 4) – Dressage Test – Pony Club Intermediate Eventing Test 2009.  Showjumping and Cross Country are maximum height 3’3” (1m)

Open (Level 5) – Dressage Test – Pony Club Open Eventing Test 2010.  Showjumping and cross country are maximum height 3’6” (1.10m)


Open to teams of 3 or 4 members and individuals

Open and intermediate qualify for the The Pony Club champions ships at Draycott House, Draycott.

Novice qualify for the Novice Championships at Kelsall Hill Cheshire.

Pony Club Novice Eventing Championships 2011 – Georgia Harness and Burgundy Jack the Lad.

After a three hour drive down to Cheshire, due to a crash on the motorway, we arrived at 8pm. When we finally unloaded Jack, it was dark and chucking it down with rain, typical. Although, it was dark and bad whether, Jack seemed to settle, fine in his temporary cosy stable. On the Saturday morning, I took Jack out for a ride around the ‘farm track’ to stretch his legs, because I wasn’t due to do my dressage until 4.30pm. When I got back on Jack for dressage later on that day, it had surprisingly brightened up, which put me and Jack in a good mood. He was warming up brilliantly, until the hail decided to come 5 minutes before we were due to perform our dressage test. But, surprisingly enough, once we got into the ring, we went alot better than expected. Jack seemed to just accept the fact that the  weather wasn’t going to change. We ended up with a score of 33.2,  The next day was another miserable, wet day, right from the beginning. It was an early start, 8.30am was my showjumping time, but of course Jack is a grey and loves to get as dirty as possible. Warming up for the showjumping, it was hailing once again, but it didn’t seem to affect our performance. We ended up with a unlucky 4 faults, after we got too close to a fence, and it just rolled off. After the showjumping I was  with a score of 37.2. When it came to the last and best phase, cross country, the hail and the rain had  stopped and it brightened up. Although the course was challenging and technical, right from the start, it made no difference to me and Jack. Right from start to finish, Jack was constant and flowing, we loved every minute of it. After the cross country, with a clear round and no time penalties, we finalised on a score of 37.2, which left us in 14th place. Throughout my weekend at the pony club novice eventing championships, I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. I was so pleased and proud of my Burgundy Jack the Lad.

EVENTING 2010


Third time lucky for Nicola Whitmore and Toto .

Nic went to the Championships as our only representative for the   Eventing,  she was  3rd after  a very good dressage test, the show jumping course was causing problems and Toto just clipped one fence for 4faults, this brought them upto 3rd  the cross country really sorted them out many not getting inside the time because of run outs and stops, but Toto and Nicola flew round clear and never looked in trouble,  thus finishing 1st in arena E. A well deserved win finishing on 37.4.

Tot strutting his stuff at the Pony club champs

Toto strutting his stuff at the Pony club champs

Toto PC Eventing Champs 2010 sj (2)

Toto clearing the colourful triple bar in the show jumping phase of the open eventing at Draycott


Toto PC Eventing Champs xc (2)

Nic and Toto on their way to winning Section E of the open eventing competition at the pony club championships at Draycott on the 16th August.

Well done Nic.

Novice (Level 3) – Dressage Test – Pony Club Novice Eventing Test 2006.  Show jumping and Cross country are maximum height 3’ (90cm)

MOLLY HUNTER

ALISA DREW

JOE DOWSE

ABI GOODISON

DANIEL RICHARDSON

ALICE MCGRATH

REBECCA ANDERSON

KATHRYN ROBERTS

LAURA BRAMHILL

Intermediate (Level 4) – Dressage Test – Pony Club Intermediate Eventing Test 2009.  Showjumping and Cross Country are maximum height 3’3” (1m)

GEORGIA BARTH – 7th

HANNAH BARTH – 5th

KAREN LAMB – 6th

CHARLOTTE SUTTON-


Open (Level 5) – Dressage Test – Pony Club Open Eventing Test 2010.  Showjumping and cross country are maximum height 3’6” (1.10m)

ANNA SUTTON – 4th

NIC WHITMORE -2nd

Anna and Nic at aea horse trials 2

Nic came first in her area and Anna came 5th in her arena. Well done and good luck to Nic  who qualified for  the championships.

Full rules are available on the PC website or rule books are available from

Nina Scott on 07835 472076 or nina.sott@nlg.nhs.uk

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2009

Area Eventing at Burghley Park on the 18th July

We had one open area team of Anna Sutton, Nicola Whitmore and Liz Rooney representing our club, it was a real early start for the families of the open team, they were up at 4.30am to get to Burghley and be ready to do a dressage test at 9.00and they all were all rewarded with a really good dressage scores and all jumped really good rounds in the show jumping ring, Nicola and Anna jumped clear, Liz had 8 faults which was really unlucky as she  only just tapped  the 2 jumps that fell where as other competitors gave the jumps a really hard clouts but the fences never fell. The luck of the game.

The cross country course was sorting the riders out and quite a few took the wrong course and missed out some compulsary flags, and were eliminated, it was a lovely course and our three riders put up a fine display of horsemanship, not many where getting round the course in the time allowed Nicola was clear but had 3.6 time penalties, Liz was clear and had 3.6time and Anna had a stop and 10 time penalties, as a team they finsihed in 4th place and finished on a total of 161.2

Liz was 5th in her arena.

Nicola won her arena and qualified to go to the championships at Draycott.

It was a same they didn’t qualify as a team because this is the last year Anna and Liz will be able to represent the club at area as they have now both reached the age of 21.

Intermediate event team.

Grace and Jack recieving their winners rosette from Sally Skelton at the Pony Club Championships. Jack was so excited that he just couldn’t stand still, he just wanted to celebrate and who could blame hime. WELL DONE GRACE AND JACK

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The following is a report of Graces days at the championships.

Dressage
I had great fun this weekend, although I think I must have lost weight. I couldn’t eat due to my nerves! The open dressage was a bit dissapointing as I was second until the very last score which knocked me down to third and so out of the ride offs! Still third was very good and I was pleased! Thank you to Tracy Rivett who came down to support me and offer me her words of wisdom (sit up and show off!) I wish the rest of the team could have been there, I think we were robbed!
Eventing
After my dressage test I was joint 3rd and so well in there! The show jumping was a nerve racking round with Jack pulling my arms out and one pole down. This put me in joint 1st again with the same girl. The scores were going up very slowly and I kept waiting to be knocked down by the leaders of the dressage. At the end of the showjumping I was joint 2nd so I desperately wanted to get round the XC inside the time! Jack gave me a brilliant XC round, he didn’t look at anything and kept up a good pace all the way round, making me clear inside the time. Again I was joint first with the same girl with the winner after the showjumping still to go! We waited restlessly for the rest of the results and eventually it was revealed that the leader gained enough time faults to keep me in joint first. 5 minutes before the presentation I found out that I had come nearer to the optimum time and so had won! Woop! Thank you to everyone who sent me all of the encouraging texts and also to Nick and Jo who walked the XC with me.

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The club was represented at the Intermediate section of the eventing qualifying round held at Burghley Park nr Stamford on the 18th July

The team was Lottie Sellers on Velvet, Karen Lamb on her youngster Millie, Michaela Harness on Burgundy Jack the Lad and Grace Webster on Jack.

All again did really good dressage test with all the scores in in the 30s, show jumping was equally as good three of them had 4 faults each and Karen had 20, cross country was another display of horsemanship all got round with just a few time penalties

As a team they finished 6th

Lottie came 4th in her arena

Michaela came 8th in her arena

Grace came 4th in her arena and qualified for the championships at Draycott in August

Well done girls a credit to the club.