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Eventing Reports
Eridge ODE – Sunday 8th
May 2011
Level 3 results
Individual
Rebekka Barrow - 1st and 4th,
Molly Walsh 1st,
Harriet Gillam 4th
Katie Rennie 4th ,
Claudia Thornett 6th
The team of Harriet Gillam, Chloe Woods, Katie Brookes and
Rebekka Barrow were joint second by 0.02 penalties!
5th place were George
Matthews, Megan Cole, Claudia Thornett and Molly Walsh.
Bisley ODE 2nd May
Eight of our
Members went to Bisley to compete in the Level 3 class at their
One Day Event. Two teams were entered.
The Blue Team
were Megan Cole on Boyd, Abi Boyd on Emerald Court, Harriet
Gillam on Rob and Georgia Dollemore on Lara’s Song.
The green team
were Megan Cole on Master Shuil, Rebekka Barrow on Delta, Bryony
McPake on Gingerbread Jilly and Alex Stone on Dolly Mix.
Megan on Boyd
came first in her Arena, Abi Boyd came first in hers and Harriet
Gillam came 6th in hers which enabled the team to
come first overall.
Rebekka Barrow
won the Dressage in her Arena and came 8th and Bryony
McPake came 8th in hers. Unfortunately, the green
team were out of the placings.
Sadly, there were
a few problems for some of us at the water. Alex Stone’s horse
took exception to the canoe in the water, shot sideways sending
poor Alex out of the side door! After a trip to hospital
everyone was relieved to hear that her injuries were just
bruising but I am sure still painful. Georgia’s horse had a bit
of trouble at the step and then at the water unfortunately
forcing her to have to retire. Master Shuil, Megan’s ex pointer,
also wasn’t too keen on the canoe but with a little persuasion
managed to get through the water only to have another fright at
the next fence, the white tyres (which to be fair to him did
look like giant polo mints!) He did manage to jump them on the
second attempt and finished the rest of the course without any
trouble.
I am proud to say
that everyone looked immaculate and were very supportive to each
other, what a lovely way to start the season?! Well done to you
all and good luck for the rest of the Eventing season,
Nicky
2010 Season
Borde Hill
Unaffiliated Horse Trials 2/3 October 2010
A team from O, S & B went off to
Borde Hill in the most appalling conditions so far this season.
Torrential rain all weekend meant that lorries and trailers were
being towed “in” to the event. Mud was knee deep from the
start. Claudia Thornett, Hannah Marshall and Ashleigh and
Georgia Dollemore represented the O, S & B in this unaffiliated
open event. The team managed to complete their dressage tests
before the heavens opened – which continued for the rest of the
competition. Each section was crammed full with 35 competitors in each of the 4 arenas. The girls got some great dressage
scores, which put them up in the top rankings before the show
jumping phase. Ashleigh, Georgia and Claudia all did a
fantastic clear in the show jumping, Hannah had a very unlucky
couple of poles despite Roddy jumping his heart out of the
deepening mud! Because of the worsening conditions the girls
went straight out onto the cross country course, Hannah, Claudia
and Ashleigh finishing with a great clear (although nearly every
competitor gaining a few time faults), Georgia unfortunately had
a few troubles with the water complex. Final positions –
Claudia and Ashleigh both came and incredible 2nd
place in their Arenas and the team came an amazing 1st
place! Well done girls, despite the horrific conditions
we had a great time – didn’t we?
Jamie Sterritt represented OSB in
the Intro class at Borde Hill on Saturday. Lying joint
second after the dressage phase, he and Daisy jumped a
double clear but unfortunately got time faults on the cross
country, and ended up with the last rosette in 10th place.
It was a very well-organised event with the only drawback
being the incessant rain!
Congratulations to Abby Boyd
who won her section at the Pony Club
Intermediate Eventing Championships at Draycott.
With many thanks to Sally Cruise who
trains Abby and the Branch Event organiser Nicky Cole who
organises all the training sessions with Sally for Novice
and above.
Area Horse Trials 2010 - 5th August
......................................report
by Nicky Cole
Two Novice Teams consisting of Blue Team: Claudia Thornett,
Ashleigh Dollemore, Gemma Allen and Hannah Marshall. Green
Team: Hannah Simpson, Emily Collins and Megan Jones
One Intermediate Team of Megan Cole ,Abi Boyd, Jess Hampson
and Tabitha Worsley
A big thank you to Hannah Marshall for stepping in at the
last minute when Eleanor Smale sadly had to withdraw as her
horse had a bit of a filled leg. This enabled the blue team
to stay as a team of four but unfortunately the green team
had to become a team of three as there was no time to
substitute Emma Stovell who also had to withdraw due to
illness.
All competed at the Area 11 Horse Trials at
Coombelands on the 5th
August.
It was a well attended competition with 22 Novice Teams, 15
Intermediate teams and several individuals from all the Area
11 Branches Taking Part. Despite the ground being hard this
summer, the cross country course was very well prepared with
sand and rubber on the take- off and landing sides at most
of the jumps and the track had been mostly airovated in the
hardest places. The jumps were dressed with flowers and
greenery all looking attractive to the riders and a little
frightening to the horses!
For our Novice Teams this was their first time riding in the
Novice Area Horse Trials and all rode really well and were
very smartly turned out for all three phases . Sadly neither
team qualified for the Novice Championships but Claudia
Thornett came second in her arena as did Ashleigh Dollemore
in hers with Ashleigh qualifying as an individual and so is
off to the Novice Eventing champs on her aptly named
Brooksby Going Solo ! Very well done to all and fingers
crossed for Ashleigh .
The Intermediate Team all rode very well
again but for some reason all had bad luck rolling some
poles in the Show Jumping Phase which pushed us down the
overall placings . Megan managed an 8th
place in her arena and Abi Boyd 5th
in hers . An individual from another branch who qualified
in Abi’s arena has declined her place at the Intermediate
Champs and so Abi has been given the place ! GOOD LUCK TO
ASHLEIGH AND ABI !! Nicky Cole
Wivelsden Farm
ODE 27th June 2010
..................report by Tracey Dollemore
Two Novice riders
represented O, S & B on 27th June at Wivelsden Farm
they were Ashleigh Dollemore and Rebecca Barrow (who took 2
horses).
Ashleigh and Rebecca
started early in the day and all 3 horses did a respectable
dressage test Ashleigh coming 3rd in the dressage
arena. The Show Jumping phase caught all riders out with a pole
each, whilst they all went a superb clear on the demanding cross
country phase. Ashleigh and Rebecca won their respective arenas
and Rebecca came 2nd with her other ride. If they
were allowed to be a team (with just 2 riders and 3 horses) they
would have also won the competition as a team! Well done girls
an amazing result just ahead of Area and against adults as well
as this was an open competition.
20th June
2010 - ODE Coombelands - Level 3
...............report by Tracey Dollemore
There was a big
class in the Level 3 event at Coombelands on 20th
June with 14 teams entered. Our team consisted of Claudia
Thornett, Ashleigh Dollemore, Emily Collins and Rebecca
Barrow. The girls all did a good dressage test with Claudia
achieving a 28%, Ashleigh 34%, Emily 36% and Rebecca 40%
which put them in a strong position for the next two
phases. Both Ashleigh and Claudia jumped a beautiful clear
round, whilst Emily had an unlucky stop and Rebecca had an
unfortunate pole down. The cross country followed, it was a
lovely course with lots of room to stretch the horses out.
All our riders did fantastic clear rounds. The team did
exceedingly well finishing in 2nd place by just a
few points and Claudia was 3rd and Ashleigh in 5th
place in their respective arenas. It was a lovely day and
the girls had a lot of fun and laughter together – very good
team spirit!
Bisley ODE .....................report by Nicky Cole
A novice team of Megan Cole ,Abi Boyd
,Jess Hampson and Hannah Marshall went to Bisley PC on
Sunday 9th May.
This is a really nice venue for our
first competition of the season but one not to be sniffed
at. The best part of the day though is the commentator on
the cross country !
With the dressage arenas right beside
the cross country, and the excitement of a new season
beginning ,Megan and Abi rode a rather lively dressage test
to say the least ! Hannah and Jesss's arena's were a little
further away so had much better behaved horses.
Despite this they somehow managed to
produce quite nice scores to take them on to the show
jumping . All four members jumped clear in a fairly small
arena and some colourful fences which caused a few poles to
drop for other teams .
The cross country was much the same as
previous years .Luckily our team weren't scared of the water
jump and managed to jump a double of log piles in the wood
which were each no wider than an armchair (no exaggeration
!). Poor Hannah's pony Roddy didn't realise he had to fit
between the flags and so had an unfortunate stop there but
with three 0 cross country scores to add to our team score
we managed to win the day.Megan also won her section, Abi
came 2nd and Jess 4th in theirs.
Well done to them all a great start to
the season
Eridge ODE -
8th May 2010
Novice – Level 3
Team –Claudia Thornett, Ashleigh Dollemore, Hannah Simpson &
Emma Stovell.
We had a lovely
(despite very cold) day at Eridge which started off well with
good dressage scores from the girls, with Claudia scoring a
wonderful 32 which put her high up on the leader board. All our
team went clear over the show jumping, with an unlucky step back
at the water in the cross country for Ashleigh the team did a
very good job. Claudia maintain her high position and came a
fantastic 2nd play. The competition was just too
tight to get the other girls placed.
Level 2 Individual
– Georgia Dollemore and Kelly Bowring
Once again some
very competitive dressage scores from our girls – which put
Kelly up high on the leader board, with Georgia not far behind.
After the dressage Kelly Bowring riding Brendan was in
lying 4th place, Georgia Dollemore riding Snoopy was in 6th
place and Chloe Wood riding Ryan in 12th. All three girls did a great clears over the show jumping but due to
tight timing, Georgia gained an unfortunate 7 time faults which
dropped her from 4th place to 10th in the
final rankings. Chloe and Georgia jumped clear in the
cross country but Kelly had an unlucky stop over the cross
country which sadly put her out of the placings this time. End
results were Chloe equal 5th, Georgia 10th and Kelly 13th
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