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Area 20 Qualifier Results
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Prelim Entry Dates for forthcoming events and BRC Tack & Dress Rules
Dressage To Music Qualifiers 28th August 2010
A20 Horse Trials Full Results 26 June 2010
Hunter Trials September 12th 2010
A20 Festival of the Hunter Llanymynech Sunday 3rd October 2010

ROYAL WINDSOR  HORSE  SHOW  -  MAY 14th and 15th 2009

         At 6.00 am on Thursday 14th may, a very excited Frances, Katie, Bob, Claire, Jerry and I set off on our great adventure to the Royal Windsor Horse Show. After a trouble free journey in Katie’s box expertly driven by France’s dad Jerry, we were directed to our parking spot with a lovely view of Windsor Castle, which was to be our home for the next two days.

              We walked through a very impressive collection of large shiny horse boxes and carriage trailers belonging to other competitors and saw some fabulous horses on our way to find the stables for Carys Mai and Archie, which were just 4 boxes away from Robert Smith’s horses. We had a short time to take in some of the sights and sounds of this top class event which included showing classes, horse drawn carriages, RDA fancy dress and show jumpers, who were clearing fences I would have preferred to walk underneath!

              It was soon time for Frances to walk and plan a course for her Novice Top Score show jumping round in which more difficult fences score more points. The highest scoring fence was an upright of planks worth 200 points or minus 200 if knocked down. Frances nervously warmed up along with 23 other riders. She rode a brilliant round and finished 5th which meant she was through to the championship round with 5 other riders in the main Castle Arena.

             With commentary by the famous Mike Tucker she held the winning time in the jump off right until the 6th rider went in and knocked 3 seconds off her time. She was proud to have gained 2nd place to loud cheers from her thrilled supporters.

              Later that evening we lucky enough to see some of the immaculate military riders at close quarters as they entered the main arena for the Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo and watch them perfecting their routines for their performances inside. Cass and Archie soon got used to carriages, bagpipes and cannons being fired! Definitely

‘bomb- proof!’

              After a night of champagne celebrations and silliness, Friday dawned and it was Katie’s day to jump in the Intermediate class. Her class did not start until 4.40 pm so we just had to go shopping to settle her nerves. Events on this day included more show jumping, four in hand carriages, ridden and in hand showing and the Shetland Pony Grand National. We also happened to see Prince Philip strolling around!

              Katie and Archie looked immaculately turned out as they entered the ring, Katie having planned a clever course to include all the high scoring fences. She rode in her usual impressive, rhythmic style but luck was against her on this occasion and the top plank of the Joker fence fell! This meant minus 200 points with little chance of gaining back the loss. She accumulated a good score in a competition where some riders were even unlucky enough to fall off.

             “Thank you,” Katie and Frances for qualifying so that we could all go to the fabulous RWHS and for competing there in such superb style. I was a very proud chairman. Thanks also to Claire for being a top class groom to them both, to Bob for his support and ‘domestic’ skills and to Jerry for his safe driving. This was definitely an experience to remember.

Bev Higgs.

              

 

 

National Championships  6/7 September 2008
 
For those of you who attended the National Championships at Lincoln I hope you have finally dried out and that your journey home was not to badly delayed by the weather.
 
Glastonbury had nothing on the Lorry park and a special thanks has been arranged for the five tractor drivers who worked so cheerfully and tirelessly to accommodate the 700+ vehicles each day. Whether you agree or disagree with the decision to run the Championships I am sure you will join me in thanking the BRC Team for all their hard work, many, including myself got absolutely soaked on Friday and Saturday.
 
Thank you to all the Area 20 members who carried out their Helper / Stewarding roles.
 
Finally congratulations to all Area 20 competitors who represented their clubs and the area so well. For more details of area 20 successes please see Championship Results page. Full results can be found on the BRC web site.

 
Andrew Chadwick
British Riding Clubs
Area 20
National Executive Committee Member
www.brc-area20.org.uk

DRESSAGE QUALIFIER - 12TH AUGUST 2007
 
The weather was kind to us over the weekend with just a few showers in the morning. Thank You to Trish Bridge and Anne Dawson for all their hard work in re-scheduling this event following the postponement in June. This included having to find three Judges who pulled out on Wednesday and the threat of foot and mouth. Peter Booth spent the weekend setting up and acting as our safety officer on the day.
 
All of our Stewards and helpers worked very hard to make sure all was well.
 
The Qualifying teams and Individuals will soon be invited to the Championships at Lincoln. Please make sure the paperwork is returned to Stoneleigh as soon as possible. The Office staff are aware that we had to run late and so will be aware that the returns will not reach them by 17th August 2007. We are not the only area to suffer postponements as you can imagine.
 
Offchurch - Horse Trials Championship
 
Congratulations to everyone who competed at the Horse Trials Championship and especially to those that were placed both in Teams and Individually. Area 20 Clubs were placed in every section with East Cheshire winning the Open.
 
See this weeks Horse and Hound and the British Riding Clubs web site for results.
 
www.bhs.org.uk under riding clubs section.
 
Job Vacancy on Area 20 Committee
 
Julie Blake has indicated that she will be standing down as Area Chair at the AGM. As you may know Julie agreed to fill this position as a temporary measure and ended up doing the whole year. As such the area will need to elect a new Chairman at the AGM. If you would like to stand for election or would like to know more then please email me with an expression of interest. The position will be filled by election amongst Area Reps at the AGM.
 
Good Luck to those travelling to Lincoln for the Championships.
 
Andrew Chadwick
Area 20 NEC Rep