This year Endurance GB (EGB) is once again offering a
Team Endurance Event to affiliated Riding Clubs on a national scale, following the successful inaugural event in 2010.
Riding Clubs are invited to form endurance “squads” of three to six riders. Each squad can then
enter a team of three or four combinations accompanied by one or two individual combinations (making up to six in total) into
a qualifying ride of 30 to 35km (about 20 miles). The qualifying ride can be at any EGB ride that has a suitable class
in its schedule.
Potential riders do not need any special
equipment, particular breed or type of horse to get started. Only the rider, their horse and normal riding tack is required.
Riders do not have to be members of Endurance GB in order to compete, but they must be current members of their affiliated
Riding Club. All Riding Club squads must declare each horse and rider combination with the national organisers before
they enter any qualifying ride.
A
team who completes a qualifying ride successfully will have its team score entered into a League Table for the Region in which
the Club is based. A squad can then, if it chooses, enter a second or subsequent qualifying ride. The team score
achieved at the second or subsequent qualifier will replace the existing score in the League Table if it is higher than the
existing score. The team scores are calculated from the speed achieved over the course and the horse’s pulse at
the final veterinary inspection.
The
top two squads in each League Table for the nine Regions will be offered a place in the Team Endurance Final at The College
Ride on Sunday 18 September 2011. In addition some wild card places will be offered at the discretion of the national
organisers. Stabling, corralling, camping, lorry parking and refreshments will be available at the venue. Up-to-date
Influenza Vaccination Certificates will be required for the final, as specified by British Riding Club rules.
Brief details of the event can be found in the poster attached to
this email. The rules of the competition and full details of the Team Endurance Event can be found on our dedicated
website:
www.rcteamevent.endurancegb.co.uk
If you have
any immediate questions or would like to discuss the event further then please do not hesitate to contact Jane & John
Hudson on 01398 332089 (before 9.00pm) or by email to john.hudson@ludomino.co.uk.
Would
you be kind enough to forward this email on to the appropriate contact within each of the Riding Clubs in your Area so that
we might achieve as much publicity for the event as possible? We are keen to promote endurance as a sport in which Riding
Club members can compete alongside the other disciplines, so any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Yours faithfully
Jane & John Hudson
National Organisers
