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Festival of the Hunter – Team ECCTG on top form

Well done and many thanks to Area 20 for managing to run the Festival of the Hunter Challenge 90, 100 and Pairs Qualifier – very short time frame after weather forced the abandonment of the scheduled Llanymynech event.  The Tushingham team sorted out a most enjoyable Arena Eventing after dispensation from Head Office to enable Area 20 representation at the Championships – weather still not brilliant so great to be able to ride in inside!  Ashley Daniels and Abba and Lucy Watson and Unicum rode with verve and dash in the Challenge 100 as individuals – a little too much dash as it turned out as they were both well inside (much too well!!) the optimum time!  However the Challenge 90 team (rather unkindly named the Mixed Bags) benefited from their experience and finished with 0 faults and all riders not too far away from the optimum time – Sarah Spearing and Timberwolf (individual 4th) Ashley Daniels and Ruby, Ruth Watson and Atinkerbell and Libby Richards and Holly – ably supported by Lucy Watson and Tyler who jumped beautifully HC after a little injury worry turned out to be no problem – won the Challenge 90 on 20 points – Dolfor second on 23, and East Clywdd third  – and will be representing us at the Festival Championships at Aston le Walls at the beginning of June.  A very good day – and the chef d’equipe would like to thank her team and individuals for looking after her and Holly so beautifully!  Finally a special and very important thank you to Juliet Foden who had the thankless task of checking vac certs and hats and body protectors – and starting at 8am!!  You are our heroine, Juliet!Studio_20160509_102941

Summer qualifiers

Notice to all members wanting to take part in summer qualifiers, please let the relevant Chef d’Equipe know asap!
Details of each discipline, the classes and the requirements for helpers are available on the Dressage, Show Jumping and Horse Trials pages. Don’t forget the endurance either!

Dates of the qualifiers this year are:
Horse Trials – 25th June at Llanymynech
Dressage – 3rd July at Caerwys
Show Jumping – 23rd July at Ashwood Equestrian

Congratulations team ECCTG!!

An amazing result for our novice indoor jumping team of Libby Richards, Ashley Daniel, Lauren Murphy and late sub Hannah Mulliner – competing at the winter championships in Keysoe this weekend, they came a very impressive second, just missed being champions by 4 seconds!! Well done ladies!

Club programme 2016-17

The club programme for 2016-17 is available to view here. This, like our website, contains details of all the events planned up to March 2017, the rules of our club, and how to get involved in teams. Members will have received this by email and can request a hard copy from Alison. Please ensure you check for your allocated duty and report to the organiser of that competition at least a week before the competition date – you can also use the search function on this website to find your duty in the calendar.

XC Training with Tyler Cassells

27th March – training session at Somerford Park Farm with Tyler. Heights of 70, 80, 90 and 100cm. £30 for members (£40 for non-members).

Please contact Lucy (lucinda.watson91@gmail.com 07415 509027 asap if you would like a space as it is filling up fast. Payment must be made in advance by either cheque or Horse Monkey.

Calling all (budding) first aiders

Is anyone interested in becoming a first aider? We are arranging a training session and have a few spaces left if you want to learn some valuable, possible quite-literally life-saving skills – though we hope you never have to put them into practice at ECCTG events! Please contact Libby Richards, erichards@btinternet.com or 01477 532916 if you’re interested.

If anyone is already qualified, through work for instance, and would be happy to go on our list, please also let Libby know. Thank you!

Photographer at events

You may have noticed that we have had a photographer at several of our competitions recently; Equigram Photography.
For any enquires regarding viewing/purchasing your images email equigramphotography@hotmail.com or Facebook message ‘Equigram Photography’. No specific charge just a request of a donation in return for digital copies of the images.