This PDF has been made by Warwickshire Horse watch schemes after a spate of thefts and crimes involving the equestrian community in and around
the Warwickshire area. It contains valuable
information and notes about protecting your clubs property and the site it’s on which we can all benefit from in all areas.
APRIL 2012 update
There has recently been a serious incident at a BRC cross country course where the portable fence rotated and brought the horse and rider down. Fortunately neither horse nor rider
was seriously injured.
On investigation it was found the portable fence was not secured properly and the organiser of the event had not checked the fences. All cross country fences must be inspected before the competition starts and checked to ensure any portable fence is correctly secured in accordance with the BE Standards April 2011.
Details are also on the BRC web site.
Securing of Portables April 2011
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Air Ambulance. As Horse riders and friends of riders, we know the importance of this service and how vital their service is. Once you have signed please tell your friends to do the same. Thank you.
Riding Club Team Endurance Event in the South West Area
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 and then a second event in 2011. We have taken the liberty of emailing you to ask if you would be willing to help us publicise this event with the Riding Clubs in the South West Area.
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 squad in each League Table for the ten Regions and the top ten squads on a national basis excluding the top ten from the League Tables will be offered a place in the Team Endurance Final at The British
Horse Feeds Red Dragon Festival of Endurance on Sunday 7th October 2012. Some wild card places may also 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.
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 johnhudson@endurancegb.co.uk.
Winter Championships – Hartpury 7th & 8th April
Festival of the horse – Aston Le Walls 2nd &
3rd June
National horse trails – Aston Le Walls 3rd,4th & 5th August
TREC Championships –
Fife 10th,11th & 12th August
National Championships – Lincoln 15th & 16th September
Dressage to Music and Quadrill selection – Aintree 6th & 7th October
Quadrill – Olympia 22nd December
DressageTests2012(4) please note amendments have been made and corrected to test years.