… to the two teams who represented Area 5 at the National Quiz Final held online last week. The teams were from Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn Branch and Gorswen Centre in Anglesey.  There were 23 teams altogether.  The Sir WWW team came 4th and Gorswen were 7th.  What an amazing result and thank you for doing such a good job !  Full results can be seen on the following link –

https://www.ponyclubresults.co.uk/Events/event.php?eventid=146#Branch  

Apparently, it was a very long night finishing with a pizza ! The teams were –

WWW (left in photo) – Pip Young, Kate Rutherford, Lucy Fox and Scarlett Gilruth.  Three of this team have attended Area 5 online training so perhaps that helped a little.  The Gorswen team (right in photo) was Lauren, Branwen, Niamh and Skye pictured round the table on the night.

Meg Green

Aberconwy hosted the Area 5 Quiz on March 17th in Eglwysbach village hall.  It was a very exciting afternoon as the points were so close.  Running totals were given out after every few rounds which added to the atmosphere.  Thank you to Aberconwy Committee and to the scorers who produced the final results very quickly inspite  of having to do a recount because the points were so close.

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• Congratulations to EAST CHESHIRE BRANCH that won the Quiz recently organised by Aberconwy.
  They will be representing Area 5 at the final in Addington.
• Anglesey did very well to come second.
• CH H N and Aberconwy were joint third.

The questions were a mixture of practical and written answers and a good time was had by all.

There was plenty of cake !

Gorswen will be going forward too as the Centre representative.

Well done.

We had a lovely day hosted by the Burton Cheshire Forest Branch of the Pony Club at Dee Farm on the Wirral and run by John Gilbert very efficiently with humour and enthusiasm. We had free drinks and cake all afternoon and during that nerve wracking time while waiting for our results we had a superb dressage to music demonstration from Helen Dutton, not on her big dressage horse but on a lovely Welsh cob that had been bought at Beeston! It would be wonderful if we could all turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse!

Both senior and junior competitions were won by the Berwyn and Dee Pony Club which has only 37 members most of whom are in the youngest age group. The senior team of Lily Wakefield, Lauren Lawley and Sian Williams who have two D+ tests and a C between them did well to answer questions at B test standard. The junior team “The Happy Gang” of Sian Evans, Emily Martin Jones and Aimee Davies were thrilled to win against stiff opposition. Well done Berwyn and Dee Pony Club and Good Luck at the Champs.

Second Placed team was Dwyfor – another very small Branch,  Cheshire Hunt North Tigers took 3^rd, 4^th (Lions) and 5^th (Leopards) places and WWW were 6^th. Well done all for taking part.

Huge Congratulations to Berwyn and Dee Branch for winning the Junior class at the Horse and Pony care competition on Sunday at Dee Farm, Heswall.

They will be joining their Senior team who are off to the Champs too!

Good Luck to them!

Well done to their trainer Mary Evans and a big Thank you to John for organising a well run competition!

Thanks … Meg Green – Area 5 Representative

… Cheshire Hunt North

After winning the Area 5 qualifier at Eirias Park on the 19^th March the Cheshire Hunt North Quiz team had just under two weeks to prepare for the Quiz Final.

A total of 29 teams from all over the country competed at Addington Manor on the 2^nd April with 18 Branches and 11 Centres taking part in the Quiz Final.

The quiz consisted of 9 rounds of topics;

• The Pony Club and Ex Pony Club Equestrian Celebrities
• Non Equine Achievement Badges
• Competitive Sports and Competitions within the Pony Club
• The Spanish Riding School
• Keeping A Pony at Grass (Junior pairs)
• Worming and Paddock Maintenance (Senior Pairs)
• The individual practical round was ‘The Tack Room’
• The Picture round was titled ‘What is this?’
• Equestrian Sports at the Olympic Games
• The Music Round.

After a short briefing the quiz got under way and then after the first four rounds the teams had a break for lunch. After lunch the teams were spilt with the seniors heading off to do their individual practical round leaving the junior pair to answer their questions on “Keeping A Pony at Grass”. The pairs swapped over with the juniors doing their individual practical round and the seniors their pairs round on “Worming and Paddock Maintenance”.

After a short break, the results were up and the girls from CHN were absolutely delighted to win. It was the first time at the finals for youngest members, it was Hannah’s third year in a row at the finals and for Georgina it was the second time she had won the Quiz Final.

An enormous ‘Thank you’ to Anna Sherry and Sarah Hodgson who give up their time to coach the quiz teams.

Massive congratulations to our Pony Club team (Seren, Edward, Erin and Abi) who won the Area 5 Qualifier for The Pony Club National Quiz. This is the 4th consecutive year we have won and we wish our team the very best of luck at the National Quiz final at Addington Manor next month!