MEMBERS’ NEWS  - 2011/12

27th November 2011 - Area Novice Indoor Show Jumping

Team Indoor Show Jumping

Kings Equestrian Centre, Bromyard 27^th November

FFRC Rock Chicks                                                      FFRC Soul Survivors

Linda Lovell & Lakestreet Crunchie                          Kelly Clack & Clooughbrack Dreamer

Jane Carpenter & Lord Taurus                                  Sarah Massey & Gateway Robin

Jo Hughes & Scarecros                                                Rachel Bennett & Lady’s Challenge

Sarah Watkins & Diamond Clover Lad                     Jo Knapman & Danescourt

Juniors

Rosie Porter & Unity                                                  Josie Kent & Morrigans Jago

Leah Glover & Bukhara                                            Mel Bennett & Leady Leah

Ellie Merrett & Socks IV                                              Holly Tarplee & Lassington Easy Tiger

Fran Pearce & Wilsetton Harvest Gold                     Ffion McMahon-Parkes & Ripley

This event was again held at Kings Equestrian Centre, Bromyard which although is a bit of a trek to get to, it is a lovely venue.

We had 2 senior teams entered this year, and Jo Hughes kindly came up with the names FFRC Rock Chicks and FFRC Soul Survivors.  A month prior to the event we had more than enough riders to fill 2 teams but as the event drew closer the injuries appeared and by the last week before the event we had used all the reserves and Sarah Witchell kindly lent me Maloney so I could fill the last space!  The Rock Chicks consisted of Linda Lovell and Lakestreet Crunchie, Jane Carpenter & Lord Taurus, Jo Hughes & Scarecros and Sarah Watkins & Diamond Clover Lad.  The Soul Survivors consisted of Sarah Massey & Gateway Robin, Rachel Bennett & Lady’s Challenge, Jo Knapman & Danes Court and Kelly Clack & Cloughbrack Dreamer.

The day started early for me, I had to pick Maloney up from Sarah Witchell’s at 9.30am, she had him all clean, plaited and ready to go!!  Then we met up at Hollow Farm with Jo Hughes and Linda Lovell, so the road train began!  Then just outside Gloucester Sarah Massey joined us, then shortly followed by Jo Knapman who tagged on the end in Maisemore, I do feel sorry for all the cars that had to follow us, but TOUGH!!

We all arrived at pretty much the same time, Jane Carpenter had just arrived before us and Sarah Watkins arrived within minutes of us – we had landed!

We all went over and walked the course together, I don’t think they could have put any more scary fillers in that course!  We had everything from optical illusions, chest pieces, dice and liquorice allsorts!!!

The first of our teams to jump were the Rock Chicks with Linda Lovell who flew round the course clear without batting an eyelid at the fillers, next up was Jane Carpenter who again jumped a lovely clear round, then we had Jo Hughes who also jumped a lovely clear round and lastly was Sarah Watkins who also jumped a lovely clear round, our first team to jump were on a score of 0 after the first round!!

First up in the Soul Survivors was Sarah Massey who had an unfortunate pole down, next was Rachel Bennett who again rolled a pole and got 4 faults, then Jo Knapman went in and jumped a lovely clear round, finally I went in and had a pole down, so our team finished the first round on a score of 8 faults which meant we were still very much in the competition! 

As soon as our second team had jumped the first round Amanda Blewett and Harry Valander got the bacon and sausages on and we started our picnic, everyone brought something to put towards the picnic and we probably had enough food to feed and army, but then with all our supporters we very nearly had an army there to feed, there must have been 20 of us!!!  I wasn’t sure how Maloney was going to cope with carrying me after eating all that!

It was then time for the Rock Chicks to tack up ready for the second round, which they had turned the fillers round to give us new scary things to jump – from ducks to dice!

Linda went in first and broke land speed records and a clear to finish on a score of 0 and got individual 2nd!  Next up was Jane Carpenter who unfortunately had the first two jumps down but then got in to a lovely rhythm and cleared the rest of the course, so Jane finished on a score of 8 faults, next in was Jo Hughes who was jumping a fab round and then just rolled the 2^nd from last and had the pole down, so she finished on a score of 4 faults, then finally was Sarah Watkins who again jumped a lovely clear round finishing on an overall score of 0 and got 9^th Individual!!!  That left the Rock Chicks on a final score of 4 faults and 3^rd place!!

Next up was Sarah Massey for the Soul Survivors, who jumped a lovely clear to finish on a score of 4 faults, then next in was Rachel Bennett, Lady’s Challenge had got quite excited at this point and decided she too wanted to break land speed records but unfortunately started flattening and had 16 faults, finishing them on a score of 20.  Lastly it was myself and Maloney, I was loving riding Maloney and he was jumping like a trooper, he was doing everything I asked which is never a good thing!  He even jumped the wrong fence when I asked him too L  Sarah never told me Maloney doesn’t know how to count and that 7 does not come after 4!!  Unfortunately even with the crowd pretty much shouting ‘NO!’ I still managed to jump the wrong jump and get eliminated L So that left our team on a score of 32 faults which put us in 16^th place.

When all the results came out there were only 2 teams that finished on a score of 0 and FFRC Rock Chicks although finishing on 4 faults in 3^rd were by far the fastest team of the day, closely followed by the Soul Survivors who were the second fastest team of the day!!!  Watch out area 18 FFRC have the speed demons!!!!

All in all a great day was had by everyone, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, I would like to thank Amanda Blewett and Harry Valender for their excellent cooking skills, Mr Knapman and Sally Watkins for all the photos and to all the supporters who took time out to come and watch, support and make it a fun day for all.

Kelly Clack

Below left: FFRC Rock Chicks (L-R Jane Carpenter, Jo Hughes, Sarah Watkins & Linda Lovell)

Below right: FFRC Soul Survivors (L-R Kelly Clack, Jo Knapman, Sarah Massey & Rachel Bennett)

The Autumn Hunter Trial took place on 9^th October at Richard Chapmans – Manor Farm.  The day began with bright sunshine – always a good start! A bit of chaos ensued as people were sent off to their allotted jobs for the day then after a short delay we were off! Fences 3 and 4 on the 2’6 course seemed to be the ‘bogey’ jumps despite looking very straightforward with quite a few stops and a couple of unplanned dismounts… The new corn on the cob and carrot jumps (very colourful!) jumped really well despite looking a little strange! The water jump proved easy for everyone, with no swimming taking place. Penny Fernyhough provided her usual high standard of commentary which was informative and quite funny! All in all - a good day with no major mishaps, huge thank you to all the helpers who make the event possible and to Richard Chapman for the use of the course. Also to Rachel Harber for organising it and to Amanda Blewett for sorting out the team of helpers.

Jo Hughes – Best FFRC Class 2

Results as follows;

Class1 - 2’3

1^st         Megan Allen                                       Pilot

2^nd       Caroline Thompson                             Jazzmine

3^rd        James Washbourne                            Megan

4^th        Seb Barr                                              Gerald

5^th        Julie Pratten                                       Pluto

6^th        Nick Cook                                           Tom

Class 2 - 2’6

1^st         Joy Pither                                            Orions Kalamazoo

2^nd       Emily Bevan                                       Centyfield Ophelia

3^rd        Nick Cook                                           Jimmy

4^th        Jo Hughes                                            Charlie

5^th        Liffie Fowler                                        Bounce Like Boyce

6^th        Bev Clapham                                     Nemo

Class 3 – 2’6 Pairs

1^st         Leah Glover and Sophie Hilliard        Bukhara and Tockers Harlequin

2^nd       Ellie Parker and Lydia Barber          Midnight Express and High Sparrow

3^rd        Jo Hughes and Dana Parry                Charlie and Who’s Louie

4^th        Melissa Bennett and Rachel Bennett             Jaybee Baby and Bea

5^th        Diane Pratt and Jo Knapman           Dougall and Danescourt

6^th        Alice Mayo and Becky Northover     Nellie and Nelly

Class 4 - 2’9

1^st         Marie Vitalie                                       Rainman

2^nd       Bessie McDonald-Phelps                    Troy Flight

3^rd        Chloe Dawes                                       Tigora

4^th        Jessica Downham                                Prince Tic-Tard

5^th        Lisa Thomas                                        Casper

6^th        Beth Tallon                                         Poppy

Class 5 - 2’9 Pairs

1^st         Rebecca Wilkinson and Erica Shipley

2^nd       William Cresswell and Stephanie Cresswell

3^rd        Emma Langlands and Melanie Tagg

4th       Chloe Dawes and Ellie Merrett

5^th        Bea Hurford and Dan Pearce

6^th        Emily Bowkett and Jayceson Pferdmitfahrer

Class 6 – 3’3

1^st         Alice Barber                                        High Sparrow

2^nd       Georgina Chillingworth                      Finn

3^rd        Antonia Monkton                               Annie

4^th        Joy Pither                                            Daniels Son

5^th        Olivia Johnston                                    Kalca Mome

6^th        Ellie Merrett                                        Socks

MEMBERS’ NEWS  - 2010/11

Kelly Clack has won Cheltenham Riding Clubs “Rider of the Year” for qualifying for the 2011 National Championships in the Intermediate Show Jumping with Winton (Spot) and for the Dressage Championships with the Cheltenham team on Tornado. Kelly has now left Cheltenham & re-joined FFRC, she is on the committee and is Joint Senior Team Manager with Sally Miles. This bodes well for our team events in the 2011/2012 season!

SENIOR REPORT FOR - LINCOLN BRC CHAMPIONSHIPS, 17^TH SEPTEMBER 2011 

Having qualified in May and June, September seemed a long way off but our senior style jumper and Double D’s (dressage divas) team have practiced their little socks off.  On Friday the 16^th  September, Sam and Julia Hall and Sarah Witchell, Fiona Porter (style jumper) and Caroline Savory with Linda Lovell our helper, set off in convoy for Lincoln.  Erica Shipley blagged a lift with the opposition (but now returned to the fold), Kelly Clack who had qualified for Cheltenham RC with her two spotty boys!   

Lincoln is a VERY long way, made even worse by the last 25 miles.  Just when you think you’ll be there in half an hour, there are major, major road works, so that last 25 miles on a Friday take about an hour and a half!   By the time I arrived, frazzled at 7pm (I left at 3pm!) the FFRC camp was set up, two lorries, a gazebo and a tent.  Erica joined us from Kelly’s lorry and had Amanda Blewett with her, who had come up to support.  We had a very civilized evening with food supplied by Sarah Witchell in the form of Chile con Carne and some excellent ‘millionaire’s shortbread’ made by Linda which was to die for!   It was also Julia’s 18^th birthday, which I enjoyed, celebrating very much!  And there was BIRTHDAY CAKE!  Even the weather stayed more or less dry.  We decamped to our various beds and for once, apart from Erica, we had afternoon times, so didn’t have to be up at the crack of dawn.

The next morning started out fine and breezy as we all stirred.  Sam emerged from her nest with a slightly green face (sick with nerves) and a big red scratch right down one side of her nose!  Her dog had decided to join Sam for a pee in the night and as he was being handed down, did some open air swimming!  I must say, Iike this supporting rather than riding role!  No nerves at all for me!

Erica was on at 9.30 in the Riding Test, we were all there to watch, including said dog, who pee’d on my leg!  Hmmm.  Going off terriers!  I was armed with my camera but there was a BRC Gestapo lady refusing to let anyone walk along a very well placed fence that ran parallel to the arenas, for photo opportunities.  Ridiculous when some people had come all the way from Cornwall, Wales and Scotland and couldn’t take a picture of their horse! 

The afternoon had each of the DD’s going at about 20 minute intervals.  The annoying thing was that Sam was on in her arena at exactly the same time as Fiona Porter was style jumping.  The dressage is about half a mile from the jumping arenas so we had no chance of watching both.  Linda and Amanda went to watch Fiona, so she was totally abandoned!  The DD’s  all performed beautifully, mostly in dry weather.  There were massive black clouds whizzing over all afternoon, dropping heavy storms at random intervals.  Everyone got wet at some point but they all did their actual tests in the dry.  We met up with Fiona in the warm up arena and everyone had beaming faces, so whatever the results, it had been a much enjoyed experience. 

After the team photo, horses were put away and we hike another mile to the score boards.  It’s like a rugby scrum when the steward writes in the percentages!  To our delight, as the scores went up, we realised we had done rather well!  Erica 13^th in her arena, Sarah 10^th in hers, Caroline 4^th in hers and crème de la crème Sam had come and amazing 2^nd in hers!  If Landy hadn’t swung her bottom right in her final halt, she would have won!  But hey, there’s always ifs! (I blame the pilot) . With those excellent individual results, the team was placed 5^th.  An absolute phenomenal result for the seniors.

So well done girls, you’re proper double d’s now!  And well done to Fiona Porter who jumped round a meaty Style show jumping course, unplaced this time, but still did a tidy pleasing round and coped with probably the busiest venue Unity’s ever seen!

And finally, thank you to Linda Lovell and Julia Hall who each worked hours for Frampton seniors, we couldn’t have competed without you!

Sally Miles

       Erica, Sam, Sarah, Caroline and Fiona                                     Sam and Landy       oooh, new shooooz! 

Sally Miles

2011 Lincoln Finalists – Seniors and Juniors

JUNIOR REPORT – LINCOLN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011

Lincoln and the juniors (and the lorry).

Well as you may be aware Leah Glover and Malcolm, Julia Hall and Tuppence, Bea Burnham and Pea and Victoria Withers and Aero all qualified to compete at the National Championships in Lincoln in September in the dressage and the riding test. The dressage consisted of Leah and Julia doing Prelim 12 and Bea and Victoria doing Novice 24.

Sadly poor Bea’s pony Pea sustained an injury in the trailer about a week before the competition. We decided to wait a few days before calling in the cavalry but sadly Pea was not going to be well enough in time so on the Monday before the competition on the Sunday Ellie Merrett bravely said she would compete on Socks, even with knowing she would have to do the Novice test!

Well never mind the frantic dressage lessons Ellie had to endure that week, but spare a thought for poor Mr. Merrett who now had had ensure the new lorry he had on order was going to be ready for the weekend.

Sure enough Saturday afternoon (about 2.30) saw the arrival of the Mobile Merrett Mansion, a lovely gleaming blue brand spanking new lorry big enough to house a small continent!

Poor David who thought his job was done then had to drive the thing to Lincoln and what’s more endure three and a half hours of the Glovers who managed to cadge a lift!

We arrived about 7 pain management Saturday night and managed to park with Sam Hall (who had taken Sarah Witchell who was competing for the seniors on Saturday and then dressage writing for the Juniors on Sunday) and Sally Withers who had very kindly brought Julia’s horse with her.

Ponies unloaded and checked into their rooms all happy with water and hay nets and then a mammoth task of working out how to use the Mobile Mansion’s kitchen implements to master Spaghetti Bolognese. Fortunately Sam’s and Sally’s lorry’s catering facilities were operational (and eventually so were the Merretts after Sally had shown them how to turn the cooker on!).

 The Glovers, feeling that perhaps the Merrett’s might like the mansion to themselves for the night set about pitching their tent, which almost fitted in quite nicely underneath the pop out of the lorry. A few gin and tonics later (adults only of course) we all retired to bed, the Glovers wistfully gazing at the double beds in the lorry from their little tent.

The day of the competition – a beautiful day despite the forecast of rain, rain and more rain. The girls all rode beautifully and were an absolute credit to the club and to Kathy Oliver who has taught them all. To be honest I think they all should have won their arenas but it wasn’t our time this time. Julia came third in hers and Victoria sixth in hers with Leah and Ellie both coming just outside the rosettes. Overall the team came 13^th in both the dressage and the riding test. 

A super day I think was had by all and the team spirit and support for each other was second to none. All our ladies are winners as far as I’m concerned.

Thanks to the club for the financial funding for this event and also many thanks to Ellie Merrett for stepping in at the last minute.

On a personal note, my thanks to Dave Merrett for rushing through the delivery of the lorry and also for the driving of it, there and back and for letting the Glovers and Malcolm tag along.

Also many thanks to Kathy Oliver for her support and tireless enthusiasm for training the ladies.

L- R

Victoria,

Ellie,

Leah,

Julia

Mel Glover  

Junior Area Dressage - Saturday 23rd July

Members Only Show-Jumping

"The Gate Piece" Frampton Court Estate

10th July 2011

We held a very successful Members Only Show Jumping Day on the 10^th July at Frampton.

18 members attended, 15 having lessons in the morning with either Debbie Hill or Alistair Bull then most, with a few additional attendees, took part in the competition in the afternoon, either 2'3”, 2'6” and/or 2'9” classes.

We had several new members attend, and also those with new/baby horses. Congrats go to Helen Merrett and Dana Perry for their achievements, these two were very nervous on new horses but their horses behaved impeccably and both showed huge improvement/increased confidence as their lesson went on.

New member Lucy Wilkes was jumping her loan horse Flinty for the first time & did very well in the 2'6” lesson, Flinty showing he knew exactly what he was doing, whilst another new member Becs Wilkinson and Finn, after a bit of a nose dive, did really well in the 2'6”/2'9” lesson.

The afternoon competition results were as follows:

2'3” Class

1^st        Sarah Massey & Robin

2^nd       Barb Davies & Charlie

3^rd =     Gabby Withers & Max

3^rd =     Lily McNab-Jones & Kitty

4^th =     Dana Perry & Louie

4^th =     Helen Merrett & Mrs Hoggit

2'6” Class

7 riders had clear rounds which made for a very exciting jump-off!

1^st        Jo Hughes & Meg, clear in 34.52s

2^nd       Marion Matthews & Abbey, clear in 42.26s

3^rd        Fionn McMahon Parkes & Ripley, clear in 42.76s

4^th        Becs Wilkinson & Finn, 4 faults in 46.70s

5^th        Paula Newman & Bailey, 8 faults in 33.52s

6^th        Sarah Massey & Robin, 8 faults in 37.33s

7^th        Sarah Witchell & Apache, 8 faults in 57.69s (Guess what! Sarah forgot the course!)

2'9” Class

1^st        Paula Newman & Bailey, clear in 24.77s

2^nd       Emily Bowkett & Lilly, clear in 25.93s

3^rd        Erica Shipley & Ollie

4^th        Fionn MacMahon Parkes & Ripley

Paula & Bailey (17.2hh) & Emily & Lilly (13.1) jumped off in this class, David & Goliath! Bailey with his mammoth stride had a bit of an advantage but Lilly pony went like stink! Only just over a second in it!

Thanks to everyone who attended and made it such a good day. Big thanks to Jo, Barb, Erica, Paula & Chris who helped set up & Debbie & Dean Webb, James Witchell, Fionn & her mum, Erica, Lucy who helped clear up. Also, to everyone who helped on the day with fences etc especially Fran Rees who did an excellent job scoring & timing the competitions. Lastly, thanks to Rollo Clifford for allowing us to use the field and enabling us to run this event.

Amanda Blewett (more photo's to follow!)

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JUNIOR AREA HORSE TRIALS – SWALCLIFFE  24^TH JUNE  

SENIOR AREA HORSE TRIALS – SWALCLIFFE  24^TH JUNE

The trouble with not hosting an Area event, we are having to travel this year!  The Horse Trials qualifier was at Swalcliffe, which is just this side of Banbury and this event is such a monster to run that each Club with a team has to send two helpers.  Frampton members came up trumps with Barbara Davis, Penny Ferneyhough, Amanda Blewett and Charlotte Ashmead each doing a whole day there on our behalf. 

Seniors were a bit thin on the ground this year, we started with three individual novices and two individual intermediates but as the event approached two of the novices had to withdraw and it left just me with Sid doing the novice and Gabrielle Withers and Holly Bevan doing the intermediate. 

It wasn’t a good day for me, Sid had had an incident with a flying flower pot display which hit him in the face at his last XC and whilst he did a mediocre dressage and had one down show jumping, the XC was too much for him and after climbing fences 3 and 4 and stopping properly at no. 5, I decided to retire.  Back to basics with him to restore his confidence! 

Gabby and Holly faired much better!  Their course was a full up, very hilly and technical one, but both our girls flew it, Gabby riding Take a Rein Check (Millie) and Holly riding Dubrovnic (Nik) ended up in 5^th and 7^th place respectively!  This was particularly sweet for Gabby as this was her first event this year!  Holly had a night mare as she was without transport at the last minute so had to cadge a lift there from junior rider Lily’s mum Sarah Witchell and home with Sally and Gabby Withers!  It was another long day, made longer for me because my navigational skills are not what they were and I went wrong BOTH ways.

Our juniors were competing on the same day which I love, their mums take plenty of food and pimms and it’s so nice to see so many familiar faces.  They did really well too, made the course which I thought was really difficult for a novice, look easy!  In fact they did so well that one FFRC junior rider has qualified for the Championships in August! A full report will follow for next month!

Sally Miles  

FESTIVAL OF THE HORSE EVENTERS’ CHALLENGE CHAMPIONSHIPS – 4^th June Aston le Walls 

After the excitement of coming second in the qualifier I went on a mission to get the team matching kit for the championships. Saddle cloths, tops and hat covers with FFRC in gold either ironed or stensiled on!  Managed to do all that but when we got our times we were so spread out that we weren’t all dressed up at the same time! 

The show jumping course was very confusing at first sight, due to there being 3 sets of numbers and each spread fence having a single rail alternative at right angles to it.  Eventually we realised that 2 of the number sets were for the pairs competition, because one pair jumps the first 6 fences and the second pair jumps the second 6!  This course has quite a tight optimum time and is also timed in the event of a tie, so the single rail options for the spreads were quite time wasting.  You entered the arena at the top end, did your show jump round then left at the bottom end straight to the first fence of the XC. 

The Cross country course was pretty meaty, including steps, skinnies, cottages, a corner and water, but very flowing.  Personally I was bricking it but was first to go out of our team and very glad to know that I would be finished in time to sit back and watch the others!  My little princess looked after me and jumped a neat clear show jump round although she was not happy going out a different end!  She took me round the XC like a star with a clear, just clocking up 8.8 time faults.  Next up was Charlotte Ashmead on her young horse Eternity.  Charlotte has to take him carefully show jumping so he doesn’t get careless and they jumped a clear with some time faults and went like a rocket XC to jump clear and gain a couple of speeding time faults!  So Charlotte ended up with 8.4 faults across the 2 phases.  Fiona Porter and Unity were next, they did a quick round show jumping but unfortunately had a couple down, then stormed the XC with only 5.4 time so finishing on 13.4 which left Paula Newman and Bailey under a bit of pressure, but what ever happened we had a very good 3 to count score!  Paula and Bailey clipped one show jumping and went very fast and clear XC, gaining 4 speedy time faults, so finishing on a total of 8 faults.     

Having left home at 7.30am it was a long, long wait for the results, which finally came out at 5p.m.  We were told that we had finished in 9^th place and could collect our rosettes from the lorry park secretary, who then told us we could go home as there was nothing else due, so we unplaited, loaded up and left, chuffed to bits with out 9^th place ribbons.  It wasn’t until two days later that I checked the results on line and saw that we had won the ‘Best team of 4 scores to count’ and should have received a silver salver.

How annoying was that!  BRC were happy to post the trophy but we had missed a photo opportunity!  Or had we?  We decided to meet, dress up in the full kit, with plaited horses and do a photo with the trophy!  Hopefully it will be in the Riders magazine, it made the Dursley Gazette after all! 

Well done to us all, it was a great day.

Left to Right, Fiona Porter on Unity, Paula Newman on Bailey,

Sally Miles on Spice and Charlotte Ashmead on Eternity.

Sally Miles   

Sally Miles in her role as Senior Team Manager

(Sally also successfully participates in lots of the teams)

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STOCKLAND LOVELL June 2011

Apologies up front for this – it has become a bit like War and Peace but just so much to be said…. ;-)

Another camp has come and gone – and what a camp it was! Common consensus is that it was the best one yet. Everyone got on really well, encouraged each other and generally had a great time. Lots of laughter, lots of gritted teeth and many a goal accomplished!

The weather was a bit changeable – one minute lovely warm sunshine the next torrential rain. Lost count of the number of times my clothes were dry, then soaked, then dry again! But no-ones spirits were dampened by it and it did mean the ground was much better than it has been in previous years. All the lessons were fully booked, a testament to our fantastic instructors – Richard Ayre for SJ, Helen Griffith for flat and our old favourite (good girrrrrrrrrl!!!) Rachel Sheldon for XC.

A special mention has to go to Barbara Davis, she had many a demon to conquer on both the SJ and the XC course – what a huge difference a year makes! With Jo Hughes bawling in her ear, the rest of us yelling encouragement – she tackled the 2’9 XC lesson in style! Ditches, logs, hedges, palisades, the bank and her biggest fear the sunken road, all jumped successfully. A huge pat on the back to her!

A novelty addition this year were the ‘Whoops!’ rosettes – awarded for unplanned dismounts. A few were handed out – even to one of the instructors who got on to show someone how (not) to do it!! Rachel – your secret is safe with us… Not!

Saturday night began with Musical Hats – yes, we all put on various different hats and spent a while prancing around and ripping out each others hair desperately trying to be the last one still wearing one!!! Congratulations to the winner Joanna Murray. Then we held an auction to raise funds to help a relation of Heather’s who suffers from a metabolic imbalance and needs a new wheelchair. Huge thanks to everyone who donated items and who bought them – over £400 was raised.

Sunday night brought the ‘FFRC’s Got Talent’ show…. As usual, the funniest couple of hours of the whole weekend. This year it was nice to see lots of us getting involved and taking part – even some new faces which was fantastic. The evening kicked off with Barb and Jo H with a hilarious take on Morecombe and Wise making breakfast to the stripper tune, we all cringed as Barb sliced grapefruits in half with one swoop of a meat cleaver…!!! And if you ever fancy an omelette – don’t get Jo to make it….! Next was The Black and White Minstrels, their costumes and make up were so good I have no idea who most of them were! The routine was slick and I’m sure a spot on the real Britains Got Talent would be possible. Next Ffion, Linda and Penny with their version of Madness’s Knicker Thief – don’t leave your smalls around that lot! Then it was Heather and Chris alias David Bowie and a dodgy looking knome/Smurf lookalike! We were all in hysterics by now… Next it was time for Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Dragon and Pussycat – me, Jess, Chick, Ali and Jo C (complete with plastered wrist!!) we didn’t have much time to practise and it showed! But made it all the funnier… Then Jo H donned the tightest leopardskin leggings (complete with fake sausage snake!) and did a really good impression of Rod Stewart! Last and by no means least – Barb gave us a collection of all her acts in the past – which when it got to Madonna she got a bit over excited and a bit more flesh was on show than she planned!!! Will say no more….. Somewhere in the middle of all this chaos Linda Lovell stood up and filled in a gap between acts with a hilarious Pam Eyres poem about Bruce Springsteen – one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard… we were all crying with laughter.

Only one major drama of the weekend (no not my horse losing a shoe – again…) Jo C and Ralph had a mishap on the way back from their xc lesson on Sunday…. They parted company and poor Jo ended up in an ambulance on the way to A&E with a dishy paramedic -  and Heather in hot pursuit…. 95mph was mentioned but no speeding tickets received thank god… Jo came back several hours later sporting a fetching plaster cast on her wrist… Get well soon!

Big thanks has to go to Shirley and co for providing us with lots of tasty food as usual and cake which was impossible to refuse… Also to Isabel Harker from Spillers who brought along a portable weighbridge which my horse Bailey tested to the maximum – weighing in at a massive 773kg!!! Everyone had the chance to have their horses weighed free of charge – an eye opening experience…! Thanks to Cat Ballam for the wonderful Bengali massages which put many aching muscles right on the last day and last but by no means least – the amazingly talented Fiona Crawford who spent 2 days with us ensuring we all came away with some fantastic photographic evidence of our achievements!

All in all, a fantastic time was had by all. We all laughed, drank and chatted our way through the whole holiday. Everyone - from the competitive riders to the happy hackers and between, agreed there is much to be gained from the weekend no matter what your goals are. It’s even nice just to spend a few guilt free days with your best 4 legged friend and your daft 2 legged ones! Huge HUGE thanks to Heather Llewellyn for organising the holiday and keeping us all in line, no mean feat!!!

Davinia - catching up with the girls I don’t see from one year to the next and having the time to spend with a horse guilt free oh and realising I can remember how to jump, cant wait to do more.

Paula – Jumping 6ft over a 6 inch ditch and surviving J Great company, everyone got on really well and had great fun.

Heather – Keeping up with the ambulance taking Jo to hospital in her car!

Ffion – Mr Ed (alias the Racing Snake) was a pleasure to have at camp, having only been saddled up for the first time 8 weeks before and never having been out anywhere.  

Terri Sweet – My lasting memory from camp is of spending time with such a fantastic group of ladies. Thank you all for allowing me to come along!

Chris Massey – Finally, I enjoyed jumping! Well maybe not one particular jump!

Nicky Walker – I haven’t laughed so much since last years camp, the weather was ok, horses pretty chilled, great company and lots of fun.

Barb - where do I start best bits finally achieved my goal to bury my Gremlins and have a go at x/c what a fab time I had made even better when some horses refused a few jumps and my boy Charlie sailed straight over them on the Sunday morning much thanks needs to go to Rachel and Jo for the damn words of encouragement or "you can do it gather up those bloody reins" will be set in stone when I leave this world not yet though still more jumping to do. Really enjoyed the s/j jumped higher than I ever have shame I got a "woops" Richards fault told him it was too high! Finally the hat comp what a laugh where does Heather get all these crazy ideas from. Which leads me to my favourite the Karaoke great fun and a little embarrassment to show more of me than I intended but after watching the video I got the most laughs on the laughometer if you have no fake boobies  because you forgot to make conical ones use your own cant wait for next year have my karaoke sorted out already. Barb xx You have the pics to prove it

Anne Brackley – I find it almost impossible to isolate a 'single best' from the list below, but if pushed it would have to be the last one of course!

• Going home with 30 more friends than I'd had 5 days before
• Being able to talk horses constantly with fellow horse-people, knowing they wouldn't glaze over though they might try to get their own word in occasionally
• Sleeping in a top bunk again after about 40 years of ordinary beds
• Getting to grips with lateral work at last thanks to Helen Griffiths
• How Rachel Sheldon's assumption that we could do it ensured that we did do it (XC)
• The kindness and adaptability of my gallant little horse for enduring a long journey, living in a strange stable rather than his own field and doing amazing things in the arena and on the XC course - just because I asked him to…

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AREA SHOW JUMPING AND STYLE JUMPING QUALIFIER – 29^th May, Malvern

It’s four years since I last competed in the Area show jumping and now I remember why I try not to! This is a VERY long day, the novice team had their first round at 11.15 and their second round at 3.15! This was interspersed with a round of style jumping at 1.00. The intermediate team didn’t have quite such a long day as there were fewer in their class, but they still started at 10.30 and didn’t finish till 3.00! But what makes this all worthwhile is the company and the beautiful venue at the base of the Malvern Hills, even if the ground was like concrete.

Our Intermediate team of Holly Bragg on Celtic Pearl, Sheenagh Bragg on Lakestreet Nicole, Holly Bevan on Dubrovnik and Paula Newman on Crown Imperial. The second round was MASSIVE with a water tray and Frampton Team after two rounds, finished on a score of 4 faults. Only Sheenagh had to jump off for an individual place being the only one to achieve a double clear. The jump off course was very big and twisty but Sheenagh jumped clear and finished 4^th individually while the team were placed 3^rd!

The novice ring was filled with horrible colourful spooky Jump for Joy fences, with 13 obstacles to tackle, right next to the road with half marathon runners straggling along it, under trees! Team Waffles didn’t have the best of first rounds as Sarah’s Maloney took exception to the LAST fence, a wiggly set of planks with musical notes painted on the white back ground, so he stopped and very gently Sarah slid, slowly off his shoulder and although she was fine, in show jumping that’s it! You have to leave the ring. This meant that Sarah Donnelly, Fiona and myself had to get round. For Sarah Don, this was her first pressured show jumping competition! Bless them, they got round with a couple of not quite run outs, but more run pasts and a pole down, while Fiona and I jumped clear. We had a score! So were able to do round 2.

Back at base camp, Sarah Witchell had brought food so a quick picnic and ‘style jumping’ tactics were sorted. We were joined by Paula and Holly Bevan who were also doing the style as individuals and Frampton Fruitcakes went in one after another, looking beautiful! Sarah Don did a bit of break dancing in one of the corners as Craig slipped and had two steering issues and so she sadly was out as they count them as run outs, but everyone else jumped clear with the team finishing 5^th and Fiona Porter being the prettiest coming 3^rd individually.

Then came round two of the novice, which had been changed and raised considerably. Sarah Don was practising steering into the practise jump but misjudged it completely making it impossible for Craig to jump so was ejected onto the fence! But this seemed to knock some sense into her and although I was very worried that it was a bit much for her, she and Craig did a lovely round with only one run past and a pole down. Sarah Witchell faced her demons at the wavy music clad planks, where Maloney stopped again, but she stayed in place, got him over it and completed her round. Fiona and I both had one down, although I think mine was unlucky as she touched it, it didn’t fall then a gust of wind took it to the front side of the jump!

Although we didn’t get placed, some personal achievements made it all worth while.

Well done to everyone, and those on foot, Mel Glover, Sue Bragg and Sally Bevan. Thank you to Paula who I pushed into doing the intermediate to make up a team of four even though she would have preferred novice and well done to Sarah Don for doing all the jumps in the right order over what is probably the most spooky and complicated course they have done and well done to Sarah Witchell for getting Maloney over the planks! Next time I think we should take lippy and all share – Sheenagh had the most luscious sugar pink lips ALL day! The colour was so lush, I could have kissed her myself!!!!!

Sally Miles

AREA FESTIVAL OF THE HUNTER at Swacliffe

Junior report

The eventers challenge qualifier was something very new to the team and me, we all went there not quite knowing what to expect. Everyone arrived bright and early to walk the course, we all headed off together and us juniors strided on ahead of the seniors. Once all back at the lorries having walked the course we thought it would be a good idea to find out the format of the event and what we had to do, so while I found spare socks and the team members tacked up our parents found out all the information.

All the juniors mounted their horses and headed over to the warm up arena, whilst warming up, team tactics were passed through the team, and we all tried to maintain a cool head for the showjumping so we could then kick on and enjoy the cross country. All the team members did their very best and performed really well, although Tuppence decided cantering through show jump fences involved less effort than actually jumping over them, but she loved the cross country giving me a real buzz to start off the eventing season.

At the end of the competing we all saw to our horses and kit, then hit the burger van and did a spot of shopping. The team came 3rd and got some lovely yellow rosettes! After going into this eventers challege not knowing what to expect, I can say it was a lovely day and very enjoyable, I would definatly go again!

Julia Hall

Senior report

I have only heard of the Eventers’ Challenge, never actually competed in one and having done this competition am now quite hooked! It’s like eventing without the dressage! Frampton Seniors had seven members wanting to have a go, me being one of them and so to give us our best chance decided to bite the bullet and take both my horses so that both teams had 4 members riding. Unfortunately, Nicki Davies had a double whammy, her horse going lame and then slicing a tendon in her wrist, making her unable to go so we were down to one team of 4 and one of 3.

Swalcliffe is miles away, our poor juniors were on at 9.00 so were leaving home half way through the night! But luckily seniors had requested late times and were put on right at the end of the competition, which also brought it’s problems as I only had 10 minutes between rides! But the organisers sorted it so I had 20 minutes!

Team cup cakes were first on, with me and Spice setting the pace. The show jumping is timed and the XC is optimum time, the show jump time only being relevant in the event of a tie. Spice was lush, she jumped quickly and clear and stormed the XC, I was followed by Charlotte Ashmead a new member to FFRC but with a good track record on BE, and her 6 year old ET, Charlotte also jumped clear and zipped round the XC like a true pro, one of the few inside the time! Next was Fiona Porter and Unity who just had one show jump down but clear XC and bringing up the rear (no pressure) was Paula Newman and Bailey who pinged the show jumps clear and did a fast clear XC. This put the cup cakes on a zero score, so times would be important.

Frampton Jammy Dodgers were down to three, one was my Sid, who had caused havock back at my lorry when I took Spice away to compete. It took Fran, Julia, Lily, Sam and Gail to try and keep his feet on the ground and by the time I got on him he (and they) was somewhat cheesed off! He showed me just how high he can get his front feet by doing several spectacular rears in the warm up, but when it came to jumping, he managed to smack a show jump down and had a stop at the smallest log on the course, he was always going to be the weakest link! It was a shame as he scuppered the chances of the Dodgers. Sarah Witchell riding Maloney jumped clear show jumping and XC and Caroline Savory on Pepper also did a lovely clean show jumping round and clear XC.

When the results came out, Frampton Cupcakes were 2nd! And Charlotte and myself were individual 5th and 6th respectively, my 6th was lucky because my show jumping was a tad faster than another rider who was on the same score as me! These results were brilliant as there were 19 teams competing, some 76 riders!

Sarah Witchell and Fiona Porter did the pairs competition, where one rider waits between two poles on the ground while the other jumps half the show jumps, then a whip is swapped and the other rider jumps the second half. Then both go through to the XC and off they go. Sarah and Maloney jumped clear while Fiona and Unity had one show jump down, but they came 6th and had fantastic fun, both claiming not to be competitive but going for it big time!

It was a brilliant day, we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and the icing on the cup cakes was that we qualified and are off to Championships at Aston le Walls on June 4th!

Sally Miles

SPRING OPEN HUNTER TRIALS @ MANOR FARM

We ran our first open event of the year on Sunday 17th April, The Open Spring Hunter Trial, at Richard Chapman’s Manor Farm, Longney.

In the run up to the event entries were looking a bit light but thanks to other hunter trials being cancelled due to hard ground and low entries we managed to take a good number of late entries which resulted in pretty much all classes being well subscribed. We even had 4 competitors from Cheshire!

Richard Chapman had put a lot of work into the cross country course over the winter, particularly to the surfaces around the jumps and also the tracks between the jumps. This resulted in good going over most of the course, which was appreciated by a large number of competitors.

The event ran pretty much to time with only a couple of minor incidents, the water causing a few problems. The knock down in the time section was replaced this year with a more twisty start to the time section including a corner fence to test the skill of the rider at speed.

As usual our members did a brilliant job both volunteering in good time and doing their jobs efficiently with a smile on the day! Thanks in particular to Sally and Holly Bevan and Sally Withers for the fantastic food and Amanda Blewett and Penny Fernyhough who assisted me in the run up to the event to ensure we were as prepared as possible.

RACHEL HARBER

FFRC Hunter Trial - 17th April 2011

Jo Chapman and Ralph who were highest placed FFRC in class one

Riding Club Junior National Dressage Championships – Hartpury 2011

Well – what a build up to the event….

Our junior team was made up of Julia Hall and Lakestreet Tuppence (Tuppence), Lily Witchell and Spot On (Apache), Fran Pearce and Brendonhill Fiction (Brendon), and last but by no means least Victoria Withers on Aerostar (Aero).

I found out from Kathy Oliver when Leah went for a lesson Saturday 2^nd April, (bearing in mind that the championships was the very next day), that Fran had been for a lesson with Kathy that morning and Brendon was lame and was on his way to the vets, very likely to be unable to compete the next day. Now – for those of you who are aware of my current status with lame horses I am very pleased to say that I was nowhere near Brendon that morning so his lameness at least could not be blamed on me!  Mad panic phone call to Kate Merrett (actual team manager!) “eeek , what shall we do?” “No problem “ says Kate “work down the list of reserves”. So, off we go, duly tasked with finding a reserve, the first two of which we tried were not free as they had decided to go to Howick to do a BE event!

In the meantime we find out Brendon will definitely not be competing at the Championships, that the vet couldn’t really find anything fundamentally wrong and was hopeful that a day or two off would resolve the lameness.

Kate very kindly offers Fran the opportunity to ride Cloughbrack Dreamer (Maloney) – Fran jumps at the chance, not wanting to miss out putting to the test those hours of lessons with Kathy. However, assistant team manager (me) can not find exactly where in the rule book it says Fran can ride Maloney! Panic phone call to Karen Carter (previous team manager) who very kindly gave me our area liaisons number. Panic phone call to her who says “I’m shopping in Bristol and I haven’t got my rule book on me – drive to Hartpury to ask BRC rep who is there with showjumping champs” . Drive to Hartpury???? – have you seen the price of fuel!!

Anyway, to cut a very long story short I manage to find a phone number and establish that Maloney very fortunately had been put down as a reserve by the Very Clever and Astute Danny Taylor and that Fran could indeed ride him at the Champs. More lessons with Kathy for Fran and now Maloney on Saturday afternoon.

So – having resolved crisis number one Sam Hall now texts me and the rest of the world… “Julia and I hacking out and Julia’s horse has been attacked by a dog; Tuppence has reared up, gone over backwards, lost Julia and has tanked off towards the main road”. O.M.G. – what next…. Julia has hurt her arm, Sam’s turned the whole of Frocester’s air blue yelling at said dog owner, actually not surprisingly as this dog had attacked Sam’s horse about three weeks ago!. Tuppence was caught and despite the very frightening attack had only a slight nick and had remained in one piece.

So Saturday’s escapades over with, horses washed and plaited, tack cleaned, everybody was ready for the championships.

Sunday morning brings on slight turmoil when it transpires poor Lily was going to have to hack to Hartpury as her sister had found out at 7a.m that morning that she was supposed to be playing polo and needed her dad to take pony and trailer to the match! That and the fact that the team manager had kept Mrs. Witchell up til the wee hours of Sunday morning after a ball for the tennis club!!! Poor Lily, what else could I do but offer my services and transport Witchells junior and senior and Apache to Hartpury. Despite out best efforts we were just too late to watch Julia ride but we knew from the video we watched that Sam had taken, Julia and Tuppence were none the worse for their attack and had ridden a lovely test. Julia scored 75.42% and actually came 1^st in her arena in the Prelim test.

Next to ride was Lily and Apache, again, another stunning test, Novice this time. Lily scored an amazing 63.85% and although, being the perfectionist she is Lily was a little disappointed with her score she still was placed a very credible 4^th in her arena.

Fran came next, looking very pale and slightly nervous, I’m sure remembering that the last time Maloney had done dressage at Hartpury with one of our seniors, it was in fact speed dressage! However, no need to worry, Maloney and Fran were on form and scored a fabulous 72.92 %.

Lastly we had Victoria on Aero, riding the Novice test. They performed another lovely test for the team and then that was it…. The wait was on for the end results……..

We knew we were in the running to be placed probably first or second – we really needed Victoria to be placed first in her arena for the Championships.

Victoria’s score went up – 71.54% – 6 or seven scores left to go, all the team are still around, Kathy and Karen, Kate and Ellie, Leah and I are all there, trying to wait patiently. Finally, all the results are up and Frampton have done it. Victoria had come first in her arena so we had two firsts, a second and a fourth, Frampton are National Dressage Champions. They have competed against the crème de la crème in the U.K. Junior Riding Club Teams and have beaten them all. What an achievement.

I have to say that once again our team excelled, both in their general attitude, turn out, riding and team spirit – even in the lap of honour our girls rode beautifully, four horses side by side, stride for stride and looked stunning in their rosettes, sashes, and winners rugs while the rest of the teams mish mashed behind.

Big thanks must go to Kathy OIiver who had been able to turn up that day to watch some of the girls compete – Kathy has taught all of the team members over the past hundreds of years and the British Riding Club Chairman’s wife actually commented “how nice that one of our European Great Britain team members, a riding club member, has passed on her skills”, a story that BRC can be proud of!

I’m led to believe that three of the team will be seniors next year so we have high hopes for the senior teams. Plans are afoot to start training the juniors now for next year so any aspiring junior team members who would like to have a go at team dressage watch this space….

Well done Julia, Lily, Fran and Victoria, you are all a credit to the club and to your trainer.

 Mel Glover

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Area Eventers Challenge at Swalcliffe on 26th March 2011

Junior and Senior Frampton teams were competing in the Area Eventers’ Challenge qualifier at Swalcliffe on Saturday 26^th March, where the Juniors consisting of Julia Hall on Lakestreet Tuppence, Fran Pearce on Brendonhill Fiction, Lily Witchell on Spot On and Josie Kent on Morrigan Jago claimed team 3^rd and the Seniors Cupcake team consisting of Sally Miles on Sugar and Spice, Paula Newman on Crown Imperial, Charlotte Ashmead on Eternity and Fiona Porter on Unity claimed 2^nd place out of 19 teams and qualified for the National Championships at Aston le Wals on the 4^th June.  Charlotte also came 5^th and Sally 6^th individually out of a huge field of some 70 riders. 

Senior Pairs Sarah Witchell on Cloughbrack Dreamer and Fiona Porter on Unity were also in the ribbons with 5^th place.  The other senior team Frampton Jammy Dodgers consisting of Sally Miles on Sidney (Vicious) Bay, Sarah Witchell on Cloughbrack Dreamer and Caroline Savory on Portadown Sgt.Pepper were at a disadvantage being a team of only three and were unplaced.

A brilliant day with all competitors and supporters helping each other, especially where Sidney (Vicious) Bay was concerned when he went nuts  after being cruelly separated from his ‘special’ friend while she did her stuff for all of 20 minutes! 

Well done everyone!  What a fab (if long) day!!

23rd January 2011

Mel Glover

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Area 18 Indoor Showjumping Area Qualifier Nov 7^th 2010

I know this was quite a while ago, but what with a new job, flu, snow & ice and Christmas I’ve only just got round to writing this, apologies for the delay!

We travelled to Bromyard for the qualifier early November. It seemed a long long way to go! The team consisted of Paula Newman & Bailey, Linda Lovell & Crunchie, Caroline Savory & Pepper and Myself & ‘Menco.

On arrival, Davinia made sure all our entries were correct & generally acted as Team Manager/general dogsbody throughout the day, she did a great job! The order of jumping was: Caroline, Paula, Me then Linda. 

We all warmed up in plenty of time for the first round. Caroline did a lovely round but just had a very unlucky 4 faults on a very awkward related distance, not 4 strides or 5 but somewhere in between. Bailey was really keen and whizzed round giving everything about a foot and did a lovely clear. I had a disaster. Fence 1 to 3, no problems, fence 4 however, Hmmmm! This was a shiny red wall that just caught the reflection of the sun.  Menco cantered right up to it as if to jump & then stopped dead! I apparently did a very graceful slow motion dismount to her off side, ended up standing on the floor by her head thinking “how did I get here?” Of course this meant I was eliminated from the first round as officially this was counted as a “fall”. Linda followed me, Crunchie showed Menco how it should be done and did a beautiful clear, so our team score for the first round was four faults.

There was quite a gap to the second round so we untacked our horses, gave them hay and a drink and congregated at Paula’s lorry for bacon sarnies and cake, very nice it was too!

And so to the second round, the course had been changed and the height increased but the awkward related distance was still in there, so was that wall, but now as jump 7, just before the chess knight double.

We discussed strategy, Linda & Paula both agreed they were just going to go for it as both Bailey & Crunchie were jumping well but fast! I just wanted to get round without falling off!!

Caroline went in first, did a beautiful clear, held Pepper back a bit so he got 5 strides in the awkward related distance, no probs! Paula was in next, very very fast and almost clear, Bailey took a stride out at one of the related distances and just tipped a pole. Now my turn again! Fences 1 to 6 fine, no probs, then the wall, do you know, Menco tried to stop again, we were virtually at a walk, so I did my usual in times of stress, forgot to use my legs & just shouted “jump it” at her, and she did but I was unbalanced and after a tight turn to the chess knight double, we took the back pole of the first component and almost ran out of the 2^nd . We then proceeded to jump the rest of the course clear for a total of 4 faults. So as a team we were on 8 faults. Linda, last in for us, showed us all how to do it, Crunchie went round like a train, very quick, very sharp, on the shortest possible track and clear, brilliant! Team total after 2 rounds, 8 faults.

At this point there were two teams on 8 faults and just one clear, we were about ¾ through and two teams to qualify for the Nationals so we had to wait in “just in case” we had to jump off for second. Unfortunately about 4 from the end two teams came in with 4 faults each so they jumped off. We were eventually placed 4^th as a team (the times from the second round were used to split 4^th & 5^th).

Linda, however, with her amazingly quick accurate clear second round WON the individual competition, FANTASTIC!

As you can see from the photo below of Linda & the amazing Crunchie, the individual rosette (the big red one) was far more impressive than the team 4^th (small green rosette crumpled in Linda’s hand).

Amanda Blewett

OPEN HUNTER TRIAL – 3^rd OCTOBER – MANOR FARM.

Incredibly this event did run, despite the awful weather that cancelled everything else that was on that day!   Once again we had 3 courses of different heights plus the mini course.  Due to the weather quite a few competitors didn’t turn up, but those who did, had a good day.  Richard was on hand with a huge tractor to help any stuck horse boxes, but the ground was remarkably good! 

Frampton Members featured highly in the results, well done to you all!

Everyone who helped deserves a big pat on the back, turning out to steward in that weather shows true dedication!  Sorry to Penny Ferneyhough who came to commentate only to find that the chap who supplies the equipment thought it might not be safe  because of fire risk in that rain?????  Haha – must remember that excuse!

We also had a completely new batch of scorers who were dynamic!  Results were out really quickly, this being made possible by the mounted score collectors who had great fun riding round despite the weather! 

The competition was half an hour late starting, due to the medics arriving late, but Steve Harber rattled t hem through so we soon caught up.  Everyone was well fed by Sally Withers, the five cakes she made were FANTASTIC!!

So thank you everyone who helped for making it possible.  Vouchers are on their way to anyone who did 4+ hours.     

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