{"id":1549,"date":"2024-03-20T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/branches.pcuk.org\/essexsuffolk\/?page_id=1549"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:31:33","slug":"the-gosling-cup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/branches.pcuk.org\/essexsuffolk\/the-gosling-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gosling Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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The Gosling Cup is a well-established and long-running competition, unique to Area 8. established by the Gosling family and more recently by the Lyster family<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is open to teams in the southern Branches of Area 8, to participate in a competition that consists of:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– Turnout of Pony & Rider: in which pony, rider and tack are all assessed individually (marks out of 20)<\/div>\n
– Individual Ride: a current dressage test<\/div>\n
– Team Ride: a special quadrille dressage test, in which all four ponies are in the arena together!<\/div>\n
– Gosling Cup Team Ride<\/div>\n
Handy Hunter Trial: using whatever cross-country course is available, this includes some simple challenges e.g. opening gates<\/div>\n
Show Jumping<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Gosling Cup has a special scoring system: the Gosling Cup Rules. Each year, the competition is hosted by one of the participating Branches.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Each Team consists of 4 members under 17 years on the day of the competition (with one allowed to be over 17) riding horses\/ponies 15.2 or under. All 4 member\u2019s scores count.<\/div>\n
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The Essex and Suffolk Team of Phoebe Prideaux, Aoife Rew, Gracie Tyte and Bea Nicholls were crowned Gosling Cup Champions in 2017 after a 20 year old wait and we were proud to host the 2023 Gosling Cup which was won by Essex Hunt North.<\/div>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n
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