Pony Club National Championships

Grove Hunt Pony Club had a blast at PC National Championships with X riders representing the Branch across X disciplines.  

Sublime Area 6 Showjumping! 

A fabulous, fun day was had by Grove at Area 6 Showjumping.  There was strong representation from members and large classes.  Well done to everyone and good luck to those qualifying for Champs in the summer.  

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90cm

Team Robins 7th Lily, Lucy, Magenta and Annabelle

Team Blackbirds 10th Annabelle, Gracie, Hannah and Imogen

Individual 1st Annabelle R qualifying for champs

9th Gracie H

 70cm

Team Falcons 9th Francesca, Elsie ,Bertie ans Kierra

Team Sparrows 12th Eleanor, Francesca, Emelia and Darcie

Mixed Team  8th Phoebe S

Individuals qualifying for champs are Bertie D, Francesca F. Darcing L

 

 

Awesome Area 6 Tetrathlon! July 2023

Huge Congratulations to our very own Freya who completed two days of intensive competition to qualify for the Pony Club National Championships in August at Offchurch Bury.  Day one was shooting, swimming and running with a fabulous cross country competition on day two.  

 

 

 

 

 

Terrific Triathlon! July 2023

The start of July sees our Tet and Tri Team head off to Area Qualifiers.   

Everyone of this team gave their all in all three disciplines and all came home with a certificate (some more than one).

In the beanies section – Heidi, Henry and Jude made our first Grove Team and they smashed the run and shoot phases. These three occupied three of the top four run spots, followed by a strong shoot and then in the swim Heidi was a mermaid. We came home with a for Jude, a fourth for Henry, the fastest run for Jude and overall as a team they stormed in at second place and they were only 8 points (out of 3000) off the top spot.

 

In the tadpoles section – Edmund and Beatrice joined mixed teams, Beatrice improved in all three disciplines with PBs across the board, Edmund stormed his run (being chased by his sister increasing his running speed) for a brilliant PB and improved his shoot score too

 

In the minis section, Jessica matched her shoot score and absolutely blasted her run and swim for PBs – with one of the male competitors hot on her heels she pulled out the best sprint she’s ever done, Jessica joined a combined team and placed 4th

 

Olivia and Toby were part of the Juniors section, Olivia improving her shoot score and absolutely blasting her swim – so close to getting 6 lengths and Toby improved his swim, was consistent in his run and significantly improved his shoot score. Olivia joined a mixed team and placed 3rd and Toby’s mixed team also placed 3rd

 

Finally our long standing Tetter Freya Church in the intermediate section was placed third with a fab swim. Freya is our only member competing in the full Tetrathlon and goes forward into the Area 6 qualifier at Aylesford.

Area 6 Dressage Dynamite!

 

 

Our super PC70 Team of Evie, Daisy , Elsie and Harriet  – placed 14th with Harriet’s super score of 65% placing her 4th and Qualifying her for the Pony Club Regional Champs as an individual

Again Super scores from them all

The 80 Team of :-

Lily 7th 

Kyle 12th

Lexi 6th

And very well done to Alex with a brilliant 70.63% coming 1st in her section putting them as a team in 4th place and also qualifying them for the Pony Club Regional Championships

 

 

 

Grove Novice Team 

 

It was a very busy and competitive class with only the top two spots qualifying for champs. 

 

The Grove riders kept their cool and produced super tests to take many of the places on the winning podium.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Novice Results

 

Annabelle & King 72.05% coming 2nd

Magenta 70.23% coming 2nd

Eve 70.23% winning her section

Eve’s second ride 66.14% coming 8th

Annabelle & Freya 64.09% coming 12th in her section

Daisy 62.73% coming 7th in her section

Annabelle & Cocoa 65.68% coming 13th in her section

Our qualifying team was “Grove Got Game “ Annabelle, Magenta, Eve and Daisy  who will carry the flag for Grove in the JCB Pony Club National Championships in August.  Eve also qualified as an individual

 

 

 

Last but not least was our Intermediate riders who kept up the trend picking up more championship qualifications

George also qualified in a mixed team

Super results Intermediates :

George 67.76% 4th place

Daisy 58.28% 10th place

Edward 68.97% 4th place and qualifying for the champs

George 66.55% 6th place

 

Very well done to all our members, parents and supporters & huge thanks to our Dressage Coordinator Claire for organising the entries and managing the teams.

Mega Area 6 Mounted Games May 2023

After only a year of getting our mounted games teams back on it, Grove had a fabulous day out at the Area 6 competition hosted by South Notts last weekend.

It started with the nerve racking tack and turn out which ended with super results for Grove , our older seniors of Lexi, Olivia, Lilly and Kyle came 2nd , with our new seniors – Evie, Francesca, Selina, Imogen & Kierra, taking the win ! no mean feat with all those greys

 

The team competition followed with our older senior team coming 3rd place (hoping for that wildcard) & our new seniors doing equally amazing as stepping up to senior games this year and pulling out a 5th place

 

The pairs competition continued into the afternoon having everyone on the edge of their seats ,

Lexi and Olivia were taking the win right up until the last couple of games …

It was then neck and neck in a race off between Lexi, Olivia , Kyle and Lilly and two other pairs.  The end result being 4th place for Kyle and Lily and 6th for Lexi and Olivia (again fingers crossed for a wildcard!!)

 

And 9th place for Imogen and Kierra – who rode like stars !!

Grove have made a huge comeback to games, and are getting stronger and stronger with huge thanks to our games coach Charlotte Heath Smith, our Games coordinator Claire & all the games parents.  

Spring Festival Arena Eventing Champions! February 2023

If you’re brave enough to battle all that the British winter can throw at us and qualify for the Pony Club Spring Festival, then there is much fun to be had! 

Grove was out in force at this tw0o-day event. 

Grove Eventing Team Came 1st with Annabelle 2nd & 3rd Individually in the 90cm, Kyle 10th in the 70 and a great double clear by Harrison. Ned took on the beefy SJ with a Clear in the 95 & a great round in the 1m. Lucy took the win in the 105 & 10th in the 110

 

Day 2 of the PC Spring Festival Winter Pony Club Championships didn’t disappoint we saw our Grove Dressage Riders take on the Championship Tests with style – Eve placing 14th in the Novice & Ryan 15th in the Open

Another nail biting day for Grove member Kyle competing in the Debut SJ Championship Class, Two clear rounds & a clear Jump off gave him a great score to place our SJ Team of Kyle, Lucy & Ned 7th Nationally