Welcome back to everyone for the new Riding Club year and as usual we have a wealth of events planned for the year including clinics, points shows, evening show jumping, dressage and new this year – show cross. The club season kicks off for real in May, however, to fine tune yourself and your four-legged friend we have some clinics to offer in advance…
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The dates have been finalised and the schedules published. Check out the show page on the Homestead web site: http://www.homestead-livery.co.uk/shows/
There are many innovations this year including big changes to the show jumping format, veteran horse society Olympia area qualifiers, a working hunter course and new classes including Ideal Partners and Concours d’Elegance.
On the riding club side of things, in addition to the regular thursday evening show jumping and dressage and combined training days we’re going to be running a brand new show cross event. As usual, non-members are always welcome at any event. Dates available on the diary page: http://www.homestead-livery.co.uk/riding-club/dates/
Get cleaning that tack and see you in May!
Thanks to everyone who attended the Presentation Night – it was a great night and everyone did really well, especially Megan Howson and Casper winning the overall Championship! Well it’s now the run up to Christmas and to follow a smattering of clinics to keep you all occupied when you are not pounding the streets looking for the perfect Christmas gift for your four legged friend.
As we move into Autumn, the nights are drawing in, the rugs are back from cleaning, the ponies are starting to get shaggy again, ah well it had to end at some point!
Anyway, all of us who attended the XC training day had a great time, jumped our socks off and were provided with a great lunch – including Cheesecake to die for… with that under our belts (not the cheesecake) we are all off to do a One Day Event shortly – so watch this space.
As a reminder – the last SHOW is on Sunday 27th so please come along & top-up your points for this year’s Trophies! To help, the usual smattering of clinics – including some from Mark Taylor, who showed us all how it was done “Western” style at the demo last month, so we thought you might like to try it yourselves.
We hope you had a successful outing at the show today – thankfully, despite the odd shower the weather held off just long enough for us to have a great day!
Due to popular demand we are adding another points show to our calendar this year. So, cross out anything else you were planning on doing this Sunday August 23rd and we’ll see you then!
Summer has started with some fine weather, soon school breaks up for the hols. Time to accelerate the HLRC programme of events! The next show is on Sunday 26th of July, with the Thursday Evening Show Jumping kicking off from 2nd of July and Dressage/CT on 12th July. In preparation we have our usual weekly clinics, with some extras for the summer including a XC Training Day hosted by Sue Hirst & a Natural Horsemanship & Reining Demo.
Its been a lovely introduction to Spring – the clocks changed, the weather has been gorgeous – long may it continue! The first HSL show is on Sunday 17th of May, followed by Dressage on 31st – so just enough time to get your equine pals and their tack sparkling and for you to hunt out your boots and show jacket – ready for action! In preparation we have some more dates for flatwork & jumping lessons…
Welcome back! It’s been a long cold winter so far this year, however, the nights are beginning to get lighter, the birds are twittering in the morning & the horses are beginning to shed their winter coats. Spring is in the air…!
Time to put a spring in your steps with a few clinics:
Well, like me I’m sure you have all been busy getting out the winter rugs, clipping and generally cleaning mud off everything! The clocks have changed and as I write we are less than 7 weeks from Christmas… still time for some last minute schooling though – here’s the list of clinics for the next 7 weeks.
Summer is over, what Summer I hear you all cry! At least we had the Olympics this year to inspire us, especially the Event Team and Tina Cook. Personally, I’m trying to be Dressage Star Emma Hindle, although I’m not sure Norman is on the same wavelength!
I don’t know about you but I think there is definitely a nip in the air though – I’m off to hunt out the rugs… As usual here’s the list of clinics and events for the next 2 months: