Last update 31st August
Pony Club Novice Championships
Congratulations to Ivy Freeman-Attwood who came 2nd in her arena at the novice pony club
championships on saturday, she only missed 1st by 0.4%. A fantastic result as she
was competing against other children from all over the country.
Ivy now thinks dressage isn't too bad and especially
enjoyed standing on the podium to recieve her rosette and prizes!
On sunday the novice event team (Caitlin, Georgia, Meg Davies and Hannah Coe)
tackled the one day event. The day didn't start too well as they had to stand in a
downpour whilst having their tack check. Fortunately things only got better.
They all did good tests, the sun was starting to shine by now and then went
on to all show jump clear. No mean feat as the course is on the side of a hill at Kelsall.
Then they tackled the cross country course. The water had been proving the bogey fence
with lots stopping and even falling off. However the Tanatside girls
rode it brilliantly and posted 3 clears between them.
Then it was a nail biting hour or so to await the final results.
They had done brilliantly and came 6th (out of 43 teams from all over the country)
with Caitlin 6th ind in her arena and Georgia 5th in hers.
Well done girls for representing the club so well.
'Lucy Freeman recently qualified for the national finals of the
Tetrathlon at Hartbury college.
There she was adopted by the coach of the Irish national
squad, a guy called John Flood. He took her and Neil off to a secret
location on a local farm where they had a practice shoot set up.
Having studied Lucy shooting, he gave her some coaching
and leant her a competition gun. With his
help Lucy increased her previous score of 260/1000 to 760/1000.
Lucy also improved her swimming and swam nearly 8 lengths in 3
minutes. Having been alerted by one of the Irish parents that the
cross country had been re scheduled to Saturday instead of Sunday
Lucy and Neil set off for home at about 5.30pm Friday.
Sadly it was not to be Lucy's weekend. On bringing
Charles in from the field at 8.30 that evening she realised
he was lame. Lucy then found out she had been lying in
7th place so it was a real shame she couldn't carry on as her 2
strongest disciplines-the cross country and running.
Neil and Lucy however are immensley grateful to the lovely Irish!
Well done Lucy for representing the tanatside and a quote from her
proud dad "well done to my little girl who is solely
responsible for her achievement"!'.
Pony Club Championships
Congratulations to Kat Morgan, George Coe and Lucy Freeman who competed at
the Pony club championships earlier this week. Kat rode Master Davies in the open
eventing competition on Monday. The show jumping course proved tricky with lots of
poles down and clear rounds far and few between. The xc was very tough and Kat
rode a terrific round on Davies, sensibly following her trainer's (Charlotte Jones)
advice at all the fences. She ended up in 12th place which was terrific over such a
tough course. George and Lucy rode on Tuesday in the intermediate event. Again
the show jumping provided many faults and the xc had lots of questions. Both rode
really well and George on Fleur did especially well coming 10th in a tough arena of
over 40 competitors. Well done to all three of them and to their support teams on
both days!!
Sally Evans'
Tanatside Pony Club 75th Anniversary
Check out www.gr8eventphotos.com for pictures of the day!
Photos of Junior camp slowly uploading under Gallery!
Keep checking, should hopefully all be on by Friday!
If you wish to order contact Nick Powell @ the website above
Also photos of area horse trials & show jumping under Gallery
AREA DRESSAGE REPORT
Tanatsiders once again found themselves making the long journey to Somerford Park,
this time for the Area dressage competition. Many decided that it was
too far to go just for a four minute test and took
the opportunity of going XC schooling, making the most of the wonderful facilities.
Everyone did brilliantly well and hopefully enjoyed and learnt from the experience.
The novice team of Cerys Jones and Danny (Cerys also rode Smartie HC),
Timonie Orrit (Scampy), Ivy Freeman-Attwood (Tarzan) and Chloe Andrews (Cuckoo),
finished 6th beating off 2 other clubs on the same mark,
because of higher collectives. Ivy amazed herself by winning in her arena
with a whopping 73% and qualifying for the Novice Championships.
The intermediate team of George Coe (Fleur), Hannah Coe (Carrols Touch),
Emma Duncombe (Out of the Question) and Caitlin Jones (Blitz) finished 5th.
George was 2nd in his arena, after having to wait for
about an hour for the judge to turn up.
Meggie Evans (Fraggle) rode as an individual and was also 2nd
in her arena. The open team of Anna Jones (Briget), Mair Schmeinck (Fallon),
Sarah Jane Barton (Shannon) and Kat Morgan ( Del) finished 4th
in a very tightly fought competition, with very few marks separating first
from the rest. Lucy Freeman competed as an individual and also put up
a polished performance. Everyone was immaculately turned out,
behaved impeccably and were a great credit to the branch.
Thanks also to Lynn Lewis, who came and acted as team trainer
and Jo Phillips for plaiting tails so superbly!
Alison
Llanymynech Hunter trials,change of date September 12th
See under NOTICEBOARD for schedule
Congratulations to all our members who did so well at the area event at
Somerford Park. The novice team of Hannah Coe, Georgia Dixon, Caitlin Jones and
Meg Davies rode brilliantly and made the course look easy, which it certainly wasn't
catching out many of the other teams. They came 2nd with Hannah Coe ind. 3rd in
her section, Caitlin 5th in her section & Meg 6th in hers. So the team have qualified
for the Novice Championships to be held at Kelsall Hill at the end of August.
The day wasn't over and George Coe and Lucy had two brilliant rounds in the
Intermediate class to come 2nd and 3rd, with George qualifying to go the the PC
Champs at Draycott house in August. Then in the Open class Kat gave a masterly
performance on the fantastic Davies with a double clear (and a smile to the fence
judges on the way round!) and came 1st in area to qualify for the championships.
Commiserations to those whose day didn't go quite according to plan and hopefully
You’ll be back next year to have another go.
Many thanks to Karin & Sam Unwin, Gladys Jones & Hannah & Sally
For kindly giving their whole day to fence judge!
Sally Evans
Off to the Championships!
Calling all members!
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We want you to send in pictures of you & your pony
having fun! It doesn't have to be competing or winning,
just having fun! Send them direct to
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