Once again, we have had a busy couple of weeks with events at Speedgate
Firstly, we had unaffiliated show jumping and it was again lovely seeing new and regular faces coming forward to compete. We are still only taking pre-entries via Horse Monkey and giving all our riders a time to jump their rounds. Congratulations to all our deserving winners and we look forward to hopefully seeing you at our next show jumping event on Sunday 5th September.
Mini Class Winner – Lois Ripley and Katie
Novice Class Winner – Lois Ripley and Katie
Intermediate Class Winner – Isabelle Rumsey and Not a Bene
Small Open Class Winner – Emily Hewitt and Royale Teardrop UK
Open Class Winner – Amy Ball and FreeBee Oakley
Our mid-week Affiliated dressage is continuing to be popular, and the weather was finally going to be kind to us! All the results for the day can be found on Horse Monkey. This event will continue throughout the winter months except for January. So there is plenty of opportunities to gain those important qualifying points ready for the Winter Area Festival 2022.
Saturday 14th August, we had our unaffiliated dressage event. The day started off with a PYO class (Prelim 15 and Prelim 19), and it was Clare Wheeler and Vorvas Hill Aurora who were our first combination (p15) down the centre line. They completed their test to finish on a respectable score of 63.40%, which was going to be enough to give them 2nd place in their section and 4th overall in the class. It was Sophie Clark and the lovely grey horse, Ballydaniel Jack that delivered a wonderful test (p19) to finish 1st in their section and 1st overall in the class.
PYO – (P15 & P19)
Judge: Stacey Ward
1st Sophie Clark and Ballydaniel Jack 70.42% (71)
2nd Viv Howie and EFS Khamsin Eclipse 65.00% (64)
3rd Serena Kidd and Blaencrymlyn Red Kite 64.79% (66)
4th Claire Wheeler and Vorvas Hill Aurora 63.40% (63)
5th Lauren Kimmis and Rodney V 63.12% (62)
6th Serena Kidd and Blaencrymlyn Red Kite 62.80% (64)
Prelim 17A, was the next class to follow and once again Sophie executed another lovely test to gain a score of 70.52% to take the top spot.
Prelim 17A
Judge: Stacey Ward
1st Sophie Clark and Ballydaniel Jack 70.52% (70)
2nd Candace Coakley and Ted 63.45% (63)
3rd Debbie Lessells and Captain Dakota 57.76% (55)
The afternoon started off with the Novice 23 class. As the class progressed, it was the turn of Jane Stevens and her horse Calvert’s Kiss. This combination completed their test for a great score of 67.08%, which was enough to secure their first win of the day.
Novice 23
Judge: Alison Prestidge
1st Jane Stevens and Calvert’s Kiss 67.08% (41)
2nd Laura Brightwell and Solar Solstice 66.67% (41.5)
3rd Annabel Harwood and Doris 66.25% (39.5)
4th Claire Gillanders and Casado 65.42% (39)
5th Jackie Keyte and Hope 64.17% (39)
6th Paul Mitchell and Totty Fay 62.92% (37.5)
Our last test of the day was another PYO class (Novice 38 and Ele 55) and the class was soon underway with our first combination, Jane Stevens and Calvert’s Kiss. They finished their second test on a very respectable score of 67.74% and held the lead throughout the competition to not only win their section, but to also take the overall victory of the class.
PYO – (N38 & E55)
Judge: Alison Prestidge
1st Jane Stevens and Calvert’s Kiss 67.74% (54)
2nd Claire Gillanders and Casado 67.42% (53)
3rd Jane Lavington and Broadriver Madison 65.97% (54)
4th Laura Brightwell and Solar Solstice 65.81% (53)
4th Annabel Harwood and Doris 65.81% (53)
5th Jane Lavington and Broadriver Madison 65.16% (52)
6th Elaine Gaffney and Quito AWZ 58.71% (48)
Congratulations once again to all our deserving winners.
Finally, we would like to send a huge thank you to everyone that has helped make these last few shows, not only so very well attended but so fully supported.
The full list of results from all our shows can be found on Horse Monkey.