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WELSH PART-BRED HORSE GROUP ANNUAL AWARDS
All entries/nominations to be received by Judith Powell Awards Coordinator, by 11th November 2011. There is still time for entries for the ‘Welsh Part-Bred Annual Awards for 2011’. Full details are available on www.welshpartbredhorses.co.uk. The awards ar emade in association with the Welsh Pony and Cob Society - for horses with 12 1/2% Welsh Blood. Click here for a leaflet containing the categories and rules in PDF format. There is a section for Endurance and I have taken the liberty of copying this below: "ENDURANCE AWARDS WELSH PART-BRED HORSE AND PONY ENDURANCE AWARDS 2011 Open to all registered Welsh Part-Bred Horses and Ponies, stallion, mare or gelding, 5 years of age and over, which have an Endurance Log Book and are registered with Endurance GB for the season. Points to be accrued from Graded Rides and Endurance Rides as per the Endurance GB Trophy system. Best 10 rides to count. Owners will record their Horse or Pony with the Awards Coordinator by 21st October 2011 (presumably now 11th November 2011) giving the following information: Name of Owner, address and telephone number Registered Name of Horse or Pony and Endurance GB registration number Photocopy of W.P.C.S. Registration Document Name of Rider and Age if a Young Rider Endurance awards will be awarded to the winner of the Endurance Horse Section and the Endurance Pony Section. THE ENDURANCE HORSE CHAMPION THE “CWRTYCADNO” ENDURANCE CUP Kindly presented by Ms. Megan Lewis. Pumpsaint. THE ENDURANCE PONY CHAMPION THE “FFRWDFAL” CUP Kindly presented by Ms. Megan Lewis. Pumpsaint." Click here for an entry form in PDF format. Chris Taylor Added - 31/10/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MEET THE EXPERTS
The Group is holding a Meet The Experts evening where you can have your questions answered
by our panel of experts, covering horse physio, foot balance and horses going barefoot,
training for competition, crewing for endurance rides and advice on travelling
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HELPERS WANTED FOR CONGLETON RIDE PLEASEPat Guerin reports that she could do with the assistance of a few more helpers for our last ride of the year at Congleton on 20th November.This is your last chance to assist at a ride this year and qualify for the Group trophies. Even if you have already qualified but can spare the time your assistance would be much appreciated. If you are able to help at this ride please get in touch with Pat on 01477 534194 Email: pat@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk. Chris Taylor Added - 07/10/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE ENDURANCE TEAMS TAKE TOP PLACINGS
The event, now in its second year, is aimed at introducing riding club members to endurance and teams must qualify for the final during the season. Twelve teams from riding clubs all over the country took part. Two teams from Cheshire competed this year and in first place was Delamere Forest Riding Club repeating their last year's win with Jane Stewart, and Anne and Tim Deeprose. Close behind in second place was the East Cheshire Combined Training Group with Pat Guerin, Sue Williams and Jane Wyatt. The course was well suited to novices being mainly flat fast going using bridleways and headlands with a miniscule amout of roadwork. Both teams bowled round mostly at canter and all the horses were well crewed to finish with very low pulse rates which secured the top spots. It was a great introduction to the sport for those who had never seriously competed before. Pat Guerin Well done each of you. Added - 26/09/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HORSE QUENCH - PANIC OVERJane Stewart has a colleague with an orphan 8 week old foal that is refusing to drink milk substitute and also is not drinking enough water. A suggested solution is to try "Horse Quench" and then, if the foal will drink it, start to dilute it with milk substitute and continue from there.A problem has arisen in that they have run out of Horse Quench. So does anyone have any they could have or know of a local source? If you can help please email Jane (dennisjane@btopenworld.com) who can pass your message on. Thanks everyone. The grieving foal has decided to start drinking honey sweetened milk formula. And we've found a local source of Horse Quencher. cheers for now! Jane Chris Taylor Updated - 25/08/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WIRRAL RIDE - GRADE ROSETTESThose of you who have been waiting for the missing Grade Rosettes from the Wirral Ride may be pleased to know that they have now been received from the suppliers and were put into the post to you on Thursday afternoon (04/08).Thank you for your patience. Chris Taylor Added - 05/08/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE/DERBYSHIRE TEAM "16+" SUCCESSA combined Cheshire/Derbyshire team with "older horses" came 3rd in the Lindum Team Spirit 160 km relay race last Thursday (22nd July) at Market Rasen.The team called "16+" consisted of Pat Guerin riding Zhiwah (aged 19), Jane Stewart riding Sunshine Bonnie (aged 18), Rita Tweddle riding Chant (aged 16) and Rachel Dennett riding Nasem (aged 19). Writes Pat Guerin. Well done Team. Chris Taylor Added - 25/07/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WIRRAL RIDE - VIDEO and PHOTOSA short video of those riders that passed me at the exit from the beach at the Wirral Ride on Saturday July 2nd is available at Videos.Don't get excited - it's only a series of stationary shots of riders passing by. I'm afraid I didn't catch everyone and some shots were cut short. So my apologies to the young lady who came by first before I was set up and those that came by later after I had to leave (any anyone else who I cut off in their prime). A selection of Photos has now been added to the Photographs page. I'm afraid if you do not appear in this selection then I did not manage to catch you at all. I did take more photos but have no facility to display them all. If you wish to see more of yourself/horse please email me by clicking here with your ride no. and I will try to send any relevant photos to you. The official photographs of this event can be viewed on the photographer's website www.thefotografer.co.uk. Chris Taylor Added - 04/07/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE FOREST FROLIC - PRIZE WINNERS 2011Congratulations to all and many thanks to Baileys Horse Feeds for generously sponsoring our event and to Sue Evans for donating The Eld Trophy.84km CR 1. Ann Harrison riding Millennium Chorus 2. Kath McGhee riding Foxghylls Folly 3. Cheryl Wallace riding Wrightfield Omar 4. Julie Martin riding Solitaire Star Saturday Best Condition Awards 42km CR Brett Corcoran riding Favian Southey Star 32km CR Victoria Smith riding Chevin Wardour Novice CR Stephen Bennett riding Southdown Desert Sharif Farrier’s Award “The Eld Trophy” - Sue Taylor-Green & Moon Magician Sunday Best Condition Awards 43km CR Sarah Braithwaite riding CSA Mahrice 32km CR Victoria Smith riding Chevin Wardour Novice CR Tim Deeprose riding Chant Farrier’s Award - Tim Deeprose & Chant Pat Guerin Added - 27/06/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WIRRAL RIDE - ENTRIES STILL OPENThank you to all those who have already made entries for our Wirral Ride on Saturday July 2nd.Although the closing date has now passed we still have capacity for a few more riders so entries will remain open for the time being and Ride Nos. are expected to be allocated over the next weekend. The Ride Information Sheet, Route Map and Ride Nos. will be added to the website here for those who don't want to wait for the details in the post. This info is not there yet - a message will be added to the "Latest News" column on our Home Page as it becomes available. In the meantime the list of entries received is still being kept up to date. Click here to see the entries in PDF format or here to see them in Word doc format If you have any queries about making an entry send an email to muriel@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk or phone: 0151 625 7333 before 9pm. Update: I regret that so far I have not had sight of the Route Map or the Ride Information Sheet. I hope these will be available to pop in the post and on this website later today. Chris - 27/06/2011. Chris Taylor Added - 23/06/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MORE SUCCESSES LAST WEEKENDA big congratulation goes out to the "Cheshire Babes" for winning the Mytton Challenge at the Ludlow ride this weekend; Sally & Katy Mellor riding Halim El Shaklan & Angelina Ginny (both rode their first 80km), Claire Pilkington riding her novice horse Aberllwyds Prince Elky in the 40km and Sue Higgins riding Aberllwyds Another Rose in the 30km CR.Congratulations also to the "Barefoot and Bootyfull" comprising Heather Evans riding Swallow, Angela Corner riding Consider Me, Helen Newton riding Leyn Lader and Shani Meintjes riding Hg Hero who came a very creditable second in the event. Harry Ingram was at Euston and came second in the FEI CEI* 80km Young Riders Championship riding the Perry family's Midnight Crusade. Please do not forget to keep us updated with your ride stories and information to enable us to keep our readers informed. Chris Taylor Added - 21/06/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EQUITHON
As the latest EQUITHON update shows a massive £14,500 has been raised and presented to the
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KATY’S EXMOOR EXPERIENCE TURNS TO GOLDSouth Shropshire schoolgirl Katy Mellor has become the youngest rider ever to achieve the coveted Gold Medal standard in an event described as the most challenging equestrian endurance ride in Europe.Competing in the Exmoor Experience class of the internationally renowned Golden Horseshoe last month, Katy completed the two-day 50-mile course across the rugged landscape of Exmoor in Devon on her 13th birthday. Katy, who lives on the Longmynd and is a pupil at Bishops Castle Community College, rode her 12.2hh Arab-cross pony Angelina Ginny at an average of 12km/hour over the two days, finishing each day within the optimum time and passing all veterinary inspections. She went one better than her record-breaking achievement in 2010, when she became the youngest rider to complete the course, attaining Silver Medal standard. The Golden Horseshoe endurance ride takes place on Exmoor in Devon annually, attracting the UK’s top endurance riders and horses. This year’s event was boosted by the participation of Olympic three day event rider Mary King, who made her entry into the sport riding in the same Exmoor Experience class as Katy Mellor. Sally Mellor. Yet more good news. What an achievement- well done Katy. Chris Taylor Added - 12/06/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A REMINDER FOR ROAD USERS
We were out riding on saturday evening with our two youngsters when the thing that all
horse riders dread the most happened ... a collision with a car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INEXPERIENCED TRAILER TOWERSandra Peters is looking for assistance in getting her trailer to the Wirral Ride from Congleton.She would either like company by travelling in convoy style or perhaps a shared journey. If you can give Sandra any help it would be much appreciated. Please contact Sandra at sjhotcats@btinternet.com. Chris Taylor Added - 08/06/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE WEB SITE NEEDS YOUR HELPDear Reader,As some of you will know, I am not a particularly “horsey” person in that I don’t read horse magazines, websites, forums, etc. So the only knowledge I have of what’s going on is what you good people take the time to tell me. I also only add material that someone has given me permission to use as the site could be read by anyone so I don't like to take stuff from other places. Something happened recently that has encouraged me to write this reminder to you all. If you know of something which would be of interest to other readers then I would be extremely grateful to hear about it. This includes the success of yourself or a friend at a ride. Do not be put off by thinking “It’ll sound like I’m blowing my own trumpet”. If you so wish it, only you and I will know where the information came from (and I promise not to tell). News such as this can be tremendously encouraging to other riders especially the more inexperienced members and it is always nice to give credit to people for their efforts and success. The success could be at any level. Your (or your horses) first competitive ride, Grade One, FEI ride, a good placing – need I go on? I have always said “You tell me about it and I’ll put it on” and there has always been a paragraph to this effect at the foot of the centre column on our Home page. There remains a link there to click on to simply get a message to me which will still be there long after this News item has disappeared. Additionally, I am always open to articles and Ride Reports or anything else relevant to the interests of the Group. Thanks for reading this (if you have). And here is a copy of the link on our Home page which you can use to email us by simply clicking here. Chris Taylor Added - 06/06/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TRICIA HIRST and SUE HIGGINS - WELL DONEI'm pleased to report that Tricia Hirst was also successful at the Dukeries Ride last weekend.Tricia won the 160k FEI 3* class. An exceptional performance on it's own but Tricia has now won this class 3 times on 3 different horses. It has also put her back on the Elite squad - a position for which she has worked hard and roundly deserves. Many congratulations Tricia. Sue Higgins was placed 9th in the FEI 1* class. Well done Sue. Chris Taylor Added - 01/06/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HARRY INGRAM - WELL DONECongratulations to Harry Ingram and Chi Lin Tashiq on gaining 3rd place in the 120 km FEI Young Riders class at The Dukeries last Saturday, 28th May 2011.Well done Harry. Pat Guerin Added - 31/05/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COURSE MARKING FOR THE FROLICPat Guerin writes:
Helpers needed to mark the Frolic route on Friday 20th May. If you know of anyone who is not at work and would be willing to help please let Pat know. She will be VERY grateful. You can reach Pat on Tel: 01477 534194 or Email: pat@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk Chris Taylor Added - 12/05/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SPIRIT (Espiritu Volador) - STOLEN
And, as ever, stay alert and report any suspicious activity to the Police. Chris Taylor Added - 12/05/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HAVE YOU? COULD YOU? WOULD YOU?Sorry if this annual plea is annoying but I hope some kind soul(s) will be able to answer YES to all three of these questions as without your input this site can get horribly stale.HAVE YOU been on a ride this year? COULD YOU possibly find the time to write a few lines of your experience? WOULD YOU do it and send it for inclusion on this site and in our Newsletter? Well, you can't blame a chap for trying. If you have, could and would please send it (them!) in any form you can to chris@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk Chris Taylor Added - 08/05/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INTER REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS - NORTH WEST
REGION
Barbury Castle Ride Aug 13th & 14th, 2011. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NEW ONLINE ENTRY OPTIONSThe online ride entry system has been changed – more options have been introduced so that the online system fits all situations – well hopefully!Registered horse, different rider: A member can enter a horse registered by them but then record another person as the actual rider for that class. This rider may be a member or a non-member. All their details must be entered, but once entered they can be recalled and used again without re-entering them. Normal checking and rules apply to this alternate rider. If the rider is not a current member then Temporary Day Membership rates will be charged. For example: A parent who owns the horse can now enter the child as the rider but the parent will still be able to pay for the entry! An owner of a horse may let a non-member ride their horse so that they can see what competitive riding is like – in this case TDM would be paid and the class would have to be a novice class with a maximum distance of 40kms. Registered rider, different horse: A member can enter a ride but if instead of using their own horse, they wish to ride a different horse, they can record the details of this new horse. Again all the details must be entered, but they may be recalled and used again - without re-entering them. Normal checking and rules apply to this alternate horse. For example: A member might wish to ride a friend’s horse for them while their own horse is resting or they may be needed to accompany a friend’s novice horse. Please ensure that you enter all the details correctly – if they are not you may find you are charged TDM – especially if you forget to logon before entering…………. EGB Head Office Added - 24/04/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TRY BEFORE YOU BUYWhat is Try Before You Buy?TBYB is an opportunity for those new to endurance riding to enter a novice competitive ride of up to 40km before applying to become an EGB member and registering their horse. This allows a non-member to experience their horse being vetted, to see what speed must be achieved and see how their horse copes with the distance. Successful completion of the ride is rewarded with an appropriate grading rosette, based on the results of their vetting! However no trophy points will be accumulated and no progression towards novice qualification can be gained. This offer just allows non-members to experience what it is like to enter and enjoy a competitive ride but it is limited to a maximum of two rides per applicant. Try Before You Buy can be only applied for online and rides must be entered on line. How to Apply for Try Before You Buy Full details explaining the scheme and the terms and conditions can be found on the EGB website, in the RIDES section Applicants must complete online, all the details on the Registration Form. After registering successfully you will be sent by email your special EGB membership number and password. Using this you will then be able to LOGON using your TBYB membership number and password, then select Your Account (where you can change your password if required). You can then make and pay for a ride entry for the ride of your choice online. Payment for the ride entry will be taken by credit or debit card. Please remember to LOGON before trying to enter a ride - otherwise you will only be able to enter a non-competitive ride! Having registered for the scheme, your details will be stored, recalled and entered on the online ride entry form automatically when you next logon using your TBYB membership number. Also you must enter the ride online. You can not enter using a ride entry form and post. For the terms and conditions of this scheme please look at the TBYB Terms & Conditions Page. Please ensure that you enter all the details correctly – if they are not you may find you are charged TDM – especially if you forget to logon before entering…………. EGB Head Office Added - 24/04/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Introduction to Western Riding
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CHESHIRE GROUP COMMITTEE CHANGESFollowing the election of Shaun Walsh to the Committee at the AGM there has been a slight shuffle in roles for some of the Committee.
All may be emailed @endurancegbcheshire.co.uk preceded by their christian name: e.g. pat@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk. Pat Guerin Added - 24/03/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GROUP PHOTOS ON FOTOPICYou may be aware that the Fotopic web site where many additional Cheshire Group photographs were available to look at (and copy) has disappeared into the ether.Although these photographs are now no longer available to you, I still have copies. The clue to there being additional photographs is the phrase "A selection of photos ..." (implying there are more) in the headings on the photographs page. I am trying to update our Photographs page but this is a large task and will take a short while. Chris Taylor Added - 20/03/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EGB MEMBERSHIP RENEWALSThis is just a polite message to remind you that if you haven't renewed your membership by the end of March you will be required to pay a Joining Fee of £20 again.It's also worth mentioning that you are not covered by the EGB insurance until you have renewed. Chris Taylor Added - 13/03/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GOLDEN HORSESHOE AUCTION OF PROMISESYou may already have received this message from EGB but if not read on:"Dear EGB Member or Associate Member, To find out more about the Golden Horseshoe Auction of Promises, simply follow the link to our website: www.goldenhorseshoe-ride.co.uk. We have accommodation and meals you could use at the Horseshoe, and even one for the Ludlow Ride in June, massage treatments for humans and horses, a day's Horse-Boarding (you have to look just to see what this is!), West End Theatre Tickets, England vs Wales Rugby tickets, and Hickstead Membership. You name it, we've got it! It's all happening on Friday 11th March, and don't worry if you can't make it to Wheddon Cross - we are all set up to take email and phone bids, so check out the website www.goldenhorseshoe-ride.co.uk , see what you would like to bid for, and get in touch! (Although if you can make it, we have free refreshments available!) Regards Nic Wigley" Chris Taylor Added - 07/03/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EGB 10th ANNIVERSARY PLAQUES AT TEGGS NOSE
Each Group can nominate one ride where they will award the special EGB 10th Anniversary Plaques. The committee has decided that we will award ours at the Teggs Nose Ride in place of the usual rosettes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NEWBURY CHARITY RACING DAY
Please click the link below to see a poster advertising the Newbury Charity Racing Day on Saturday 26 March 2011. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NEW EQUESTRIAN WEBSITE FOR NORTH
WALES
Members in and around North Wales may be interested to learn of a new website centred
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CHESHIRE GROUP ON FACEBOOKNew Committee Member Shaun Walsh has been busy over the past couple of days setting up a new page for us on Facebook.This is another great way to keep in touch with what's going on and exchanging views and thoughts with other like minded people. Please appreciate that the page is in it's infancy and I am sure it will develop under Shaun's stewardship. I am also sure he would like to hear from anyone who has suggestions or comments to make about the page. You can visit the page by simply clicking http://m.facebook.com/profile.php? id=112306272179236&refid=28. Don't forget to add it to your "Favourites". Finally, thanks to Shaun for all the time and effort to make this possible. Chris Taylor Added - 19/02/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PROPOSED SALE OF FORESTRY LAND - SCRAPPEDI have received (as will those of you who signed up) the following message about the government's proposal to change the law so that forestry land may be sold off:"Dear Chris, WE'VE WON! The government has just confirmed they're totally scrapping the forest sell-off. The phoney consultation has been cancelled. The sinister legal changes to pave the way for privatisation have been dropped. We did this together. Next time someone tries to tell any of us that signing petitions or emailing our MPs doesn’t work, we’ll know exactly what to say: “People power does work. Just look at the Save Our Forests campaign”. Over half a million of us can feel very proud of what we've achieved together today. On the 38 Degrees Facebook page, members are celebrating. Fiona, for example, says "Fantastic news! And great for letting people see that actually there IS something they can do when they don't like what the government does, and their protest can make a difference!" Even Sky News seems to agree: "This is a great example of people power". 38 Degrees members voted to start this campaign. . We knew that making forests safe for future generations was something worth fighting for. So we signed the petition, emailed our MPs, put up posters in our local woodlands, organised local events, and chipped in for a people-powered opinion poll and national newspaper ads. Local groups joined in, as did national organisations like the National Trust, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace, and celebrities who spoke out in the press. Together we stopped the sell-off plans. We need to keep an eye on what happens next, but we've shown that if forests are under threat, people power can come to the rescue. . Right now, let's celebrate that we forced the government to back down from plans to sell up to 100% of our woodlands! Hundreds of 38 Degrees members are celebrating now on our Facebook page and the website. You can click here to join in: http://www.facebook.com/peoplepowerchange and http://www.38degrees.org.uk/forests-we-won-blog. And if you know someone who thinks writing to MPs or signing a petition is a waste of time, maybe you should forward them this email! Thanks for everything you did to save our forests, David, Hannah, Johnny and the 38 Degrees team" I have heard nothing at this stage from Andrew Bell for the organisers of the Delamere Forest petition. He said he would update me when necessary so I will leave the item in situ (until I hear otherwise) in case any signatures strengthen their position locally. Chris Taylor Added - 18/02/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DELAMERE FOREST PETITIONFurther to the proposed Government sale of all Forestry Commission land (see the News item dated 06/02/2010 below) a petition has been started by the Residents and Businesses of Delamere.You are invited to print out and sign this petition form. Please print as many forms as you wish and send all completed forms to the address below before the 7th March (The next Consultation Meeting): Andrew Bell 2 Linmere Cottages Station Road Delamere Nr Northwich Cheshire CW8 2JD Please Note - The Government have recently announced a delay and re-evaluation of the sale of a small number of forests but I am sure your participation in this petition would still be valuable and much appreciated by those seeking to protect our forests. Chris Taylor Added - 12/02/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CORE STABILITY AND PILATES WORKSHOP
Andraya Hiscock (who will be featuring during our Training Day) is presenting a 1 day workshop at Castlefield, Manchester City Centre on Sunday 6th March 2011. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PROPOSED SALE OF FORESTRY LANDJo Claridge has received (and passed on) the message below about the government's proposal to change the law so that forestry land may be sold off:"Our campaign to Save Our Forests hit the headlines this weekend! First our petition and an opinion poll - paid for by hundreds of 38 Degrees members - were reported on Countryfile, the Today programme and BBC 5 Live breakfast. Then a group including the Archbishop of Canterbury backed our campaign - making the front page of the Sunday Telegraph! [1] Our pressure has got the government worried. They've started a charm offensive, telling us that they love forests too. But right now, despite the warm fuzzy words, David Cameron is pushing through changes to the law. He wants to make it legal to sell off 100% of our woodlands. [2] David Cameron can only change the law - and sell all our forests - if MPs vote the changes through Parliament. That makes MPs a key target for our campaign. We need to make sure that our MPs are hearing from local voters. Can you send your MP a quick email today? It is quick and easy to email your MP using the 38 Degrees website. You can find your MP just by putting in your postcode, and there is some suggested text to use in your message. Please click here to email your MP and ask them to vote to Save Our Forests: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/tell-your-mp-to-save-our-forests MPs will have heard about our campaign. They'll have seen our opinion poll showing that 84% of the general public want our forests to stay in public hands for future generations. Now we need to make sure they are also hearing directly from local voters. If enough of us email our MPs, we can push them to come out of the woodwork and speak out against privatising our forests. Thousands of us voted to launch this campaign. We've spread the word by forwarding emails and sharing news on Facebook and Twitter. We've put up posters in forests, car parks and cafes all over the country. Now we've got over 175,000 signatures on our petition. And that number is rising fast! Together we have sounded the alarm about the threat to our forests. The media and celebrities have noticed our campaign, and the government has been put on the defensive. Now, if we keep working together, we can make sure MPs start to feel under pressure to vote against making it legal to sell off our forests. Click here to send your MP a quick message and ask them to vote to Save Our Forests: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/tell-your-mp-to-save-our-forests Thanks for being involved, David, Hannah, Johnny and the 38 Degrees team NOTES: [1] There's a list of the coverage our campaign has got so far on the website at: http://38degrees.org.uk/pages/forests-campaign-media-coverage [2] To find out more about the Public Bodies Bill, the law David Cameron is using to make it legal to sell our forests go to: http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2011/01/14/2494/ Our pressure to Save Our Forests has got the government worried. Now we need to make sure our MPs are hearing from local voters so they know how many of us want them to Save Our Forests. Click here to send your MP a quick email." Just one word of caution - I understand that MPs tend to ignore letters that are clearly copied from elsewhere so it may pay to try to make yours personal/local or different in some way. Chris Taylor Added - 06/02/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
‘4 for the North’ 2011
This is an annual competition to encourage riders to participate in rides held in Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham and the Scottish Borders. It appears that there were no takers from our Group last year but some of you may be tempted. The travelling time may be a problem but I bet there's some cracking scenery to enjoy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP ENROLMENT/RENEWAL FORMA new Cheshire Group Associate Membership Form has been introduced as there is a VERY slight increase in cost and the parameters of "Family Membership" and have been refined.Click here for an introduction to the world of Associate Membership in Word .doc format. The form is available to download: Cheshire Group Associate Membership Enrolment form in Word .doc format (updated Jan 2011) Added - 11/01/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WELL DONE WILLIAM HELME and BOBBYYou may have read in Horse and Hound that the Helme family's horse Bobby, who was a very successful endurance horse, competing with Donna Helme at WEG at The Hague in 1994, won the first ever veterans in-hand class at Olympia this year and also a special prize as the oldest veteran in the in-hand and ridden classes. He is now 30!Bobby was in the capable hands of William Helme for the event. A sincere "well done" to Bobby, William and all the Helme family on these achievements. Good to see him looking so well. I am trying to obtain permission to add a photo or two of the event. Chris Taylor Added - 03/01/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ENDURANCE GB FEES 2011
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CHESHIRE GROUP NATIONAL TROPHY SUCCESSES 2010Sadly there were not many of us at all this year but congratulations to those riders & horses who got their names in lights.Sam Weller Trophy 2nd Gaynor Jones & Squire 3rd Pat Guerin & Zhiwah Retraining of Racehorses Endurance Championship 3rd Anna Collins & Diamond Destiny (Does this mean she is almost retrained now?!) Anna & DD also achieved 7th place in the Novice Championship. A great result & only just out of the ribbons. National Distance Awards 4800 km Squire & Zhiwah 1600 km G Putnik Pat Guerin Added - 20/12/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RENEW EGB MEMBERSHIP BEFORE 2011
As the message below from Jo Claridge explains Full Senior Membership of EGB goes up on 1st January 2011 but you can avoid this by renewing online before that date. There are other benefits too, as this message explains:- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW and THE INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH
John Hudson has issued the following message on behalf of Endurance GB's Board of Directors:- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DELAMERE FOREST ELMS
If you've read the latest EGB magazine you will have spotted the news that the Delamere Forest Elms won the Team Endurance final held during the Robin Hood Challenge Ride on Sunday 5th September. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URGENT
If anyone has some spare time this coming Sunday (21st November) their help at the Congleton Ride would be much appreciated by everyone and especially organiser Pat Guerin. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EGB 10th ANNIVERSARY CONTESTTo help celebrate our 10th Anniversary all Groups are asked to submit a design for an Anniversary Plaque to be distributed to the riders at a chosen Training Ride during the 2011 season.Based on the size (and success) of the Kentucky Plaques, please could you submit your designs to Jo Claridge (joclaridge@endurancegb.co.uk) by November 22nd AT THE LATEST so that the Board of Directors can choose the winning design to be announced at the AGM? For ease of production, can the design be in black on a single colour background and include the EGB logo? The dimensions are 18cm wide by 12 cm tall. The design needs to be in electronic form using a standard programme such as Word or Publisher. For information - a 10th anniversary is TIN. I have attached two versions of the EGB logo which MAY be of use to you.
If you do make an entry I would be interested to see a copy but would not publish it without your express permission. Chris Taylor Added - 08/11/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
KATE WILLIAMS' PUTNIKI know you will all be sad to hear that Kate Williams had to have Putnik put down this week following another bout of colic. He had injured himself in the field sustaining a deep shoulder wound plus a break to the scapula and she has no idea how he did it.The prognosis was not bad but he had to be cross-tied in the stable for 6 weeks initially and he just wouldn't eat hence the repeated colic. We send our best wishes to Kate as we know just how devastating this can feel. Chris Taylor Added - 24/10/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URGENT
During the problem we had with the secretary's tent succumbing to the wind there was a small mix up with the Freebie Bags and the Prize Winners Bags. Apparently two of the Prizewinners Bags were picked up by mistake. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URGENT
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ENDURANCE GB INTER REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010Once again this competition was held at Barbury Castle, a marvellous
venue in the rolling Wiltshire countryside near Marlborough. The
selection criteria was similar to last year with each team having to
complete up to 800 kms with a maximum of 15 riders of all levels in
their appropriate classes, spread over distances of 32kms up to100
kms. We are in the North West Region & our riders & horses can be
drawn from Cheshire, Derbyshire & Lancashire.
The advanced horse & rider combinations
competed on the Saturday over distances of 100, 86 & 80 kms. The
day dawned damp and murky with the promise of rain to come but did
brighten slightly in time for the 100km ER start. Our rider in this was
Mary Korn on Mister Mylo who was followed by Anne Booth on Rassam
& Ann Harrison on Ginger Spice in the 80 km ER and 86 CR
respectively. They stormed round the course like the professionals they
are, and with the help of their very efficient crews, all successfully
completed their various distances. Mary gained 3rd place, Anne 4th &
Ann a Grade 1. What an excellent way to finish Day 1!
We then concentrated our efforts on the 40km riders. These were Anna
Collins on Diamond Destiny, Rachel Dennett on Nasem, Sharna
McClelland on Fan Tan and Sarah Braithwaite on CSA Mahrice. All
vetted well and started without incident although Anna was seriously
concerned that her ex-racehorse would “lose it” when she saw the
racecourse rails. In the end after bouncing about while being tacked up
she set off at a lovely extended canter covering the ground with
massive strides. Last to go was Kath Wurcbacher in the 32 km CR on
Cloughwood Gold Spinner who had been co-opted at the last minute as
a replacement for Sue Hudson and ILPH Bahir as sadly Baz had been
taken ill a few days before.
Then the rush started as the 40 km riders completed, Sally and Katy arrived for their halfway vetting and Kath finished her 32 km. It was then that “the blue army” (as we were christened by the vet stewards) swung into action and efficiently cooled all the horses to the point that some excellent heart rates were achieved. Gordon made numerous trips up and down the hill in his new van to fill up water containers as we used gallons of the stuff.
Suzanne was the next to arrive closely followed by James and more
gallons of water later they both achieved good heart rates and a sound
trot up. Only Tricia, Sally and Katy out on course now and things really
were looking quite promising. Tricia returned and vetted successfully
so our attention turned to Sally and Katy. Ginny required cooling but
Hal looked fresh although Sally was concerned he might stiffen up.
Sadly her fears were realised as he trotted up very slightly lame
whereas Katy’s pony sailed through much to her delight. Twelve riders
out of thirteen through was a great achievement and we were well
satisfied with a good two days work from everyone. Now all that
remained was to see how the other six teams had performed.
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NORTH WEST TEAM WINS INTER-REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Just a short news flash to record the success of the North West Team at Barbury Castle at the weekend (7-8th August). It was a marvellous team effort from 13 riders from Cheshire, Derbyshire & Lancashire & their crews. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE VIEW RIDE - CANCELLEDI regret to report that the Cheshire View Ride scheduled for Saturday 25th July has been cancelled due to a lack of entries.Apologies to all those looking forward to the event. Chris Taylor Added - 23/07/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Campbell Thompson BVM&S MRCVS (partner at the Nantwich Veterinary Group Equine Centre and Team Vet at the Sydney Olympics) is giving a series of three talks at Nantwich Equine Clinic, Nantwich, CW5 6BU to assist in the understanding the horse’s limb anatomy from inside out and how that affects injury and performance! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RESPONSE - PETITION RE CYCLE PATHSYou may recall some time ago we drew your attention to a petition to Downing Street calling for cycle paths to be made available for horse riders in the same way bridleways are available to cyclists under the title "Access4All". 2,222 people signed up to the petition.A response has now been published at http://www.hmg.gov.uk/epetition-responses/petition-view.aspx?epref=Access4All and the relevant text reads: "More details from petition creator Since 1968 all bridleways, irrespective of width, sightlines, surface, urban or rural, have been legally shared by walkers, cyclists and horse riders. Yet legislation ensures access only to walkers and cyclists on cyclepaths. Bridleways are used as part of the Safe Routes to School network, yet horse riders, over 85% of whom are women and children, are forced onto dangerous roads instead of sharing safe, off road cyclepaths. There are well over 29 accidents between horse riders and vehicles per day, 10,658 per year, many of which result in death or serious injury. There is no justification at all for discriminating against this vulnerable user group. Please put right the wrongs of the last 40 years and save lives. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Access4All Government response Where a route is particularly useful for or suited to horse riders, and a local authority wishes to create a highway for horse riders, pedestrians and cyclists, the correct choice of facility would be a bridleway or a byway open to all traffic (but banning vehicular use). Local authorities already have a wide range of powers to provide facilities for vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders and should choose the type of highway which best fits the safety and needs of local users." I'll let you decide if that was a success or not. Chris Taylor Added - 13/07/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INTER REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Pat Guerin has asked me to remind you that the Inter Regional Championships takes place at Barbury Castle on the weekend of August 7th/8th. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EQUITHON 2009 THANKS
Steph Wagstaff Bethell writes:"It’s a while now since the AGM where I had opportunity to thank members of the Cheshire Group for supporting the Equithon – either by contributing your time to help or to ride. For those that were not at the AGM – may I take this opportunity to thank those of you who were involved. My extended thanks, again, must go to the Committee for giving the go-a-head for the event and especially Liz, Maggie, Jane and Harry for keeping me on the straight and narrow throughout the organisational process! Thanks must go to Chris for his hours updating the website and to Muriel for looking after the pounds. Lastly, I must thank Martin and my two boys Harvey and Harris for being so patient with me!
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MORE FROLIC PHOTOGRAPHSSteve Arkley writes:"Although I was crewing for my partner I managed to take a few pix in between ‘sloshings’. These can be found on my website the direct link being http://www.equineshots.co.uk/EGBKelsall/default.htm." PLEASE NOTE: The official photographs of this event can be viewed on the photographer's website www.thefotografer.co.uk. Chris Taylor Added - 30/05/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A HOLIDAY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT
As a way of raising funds for Kentucky (or Young Riders if bookings are made after the cut-off date) EGB member Kath McGhee has come up with an offer to other EGB members. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE RIDERS AT THE GOLDEN HORSESHOESue Higgins has supplied the following information (look forward to a fuller report in the next Newsletter).She tells me that five Cheshire Group members competed at this year's Golden Horseshoe ride at Exmoor. In the Exmoor Experience: Tricia Hirst with Vlaq Diamond Sparkle achieved Gold; Sally and Katy Mellor With Halim El Shaklan and Angelina Ginny both achieved Silver; Sue Higgins with Aberllwyds Another Rose achieved Completion and Farriers Award. Unfortunately Mary Korn and Mister Milo who were doing very well in the Golden Horseshoe 100 mile ride retired after passing the vet on the second day. We all hope there was no serious problem. Well done to all riders and crews on superb achievements at a great ride (well worth a visit just to watch if you've never been before). My apologies if we've, unfortunately, missed any other Cheshire Group riders. Please send me the details and I'll make the appropriate amendments. Don't forget to look out for an article in the next Newsletter. Chris Taylor Added - 19/05/2010; Updated - 20/05/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TEAM SPIRIT RELAYS AT THE DUKERIES AND LINDUM RIDES
Pat Guerin has been asked by a member whether we intend sending teams to the 40km x 4 Team Spirit Relays at the Dukeries Ride (29-31/05/2010) and the Lindum Ride (Thursday 22/07/2010). Chris Taylor Added - 07/05/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HORSE AND RIDER FITNESS TALK by BECCY BROUGHTON
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TESCO CLUB VOUCHERS FOR YOUNG RIDER SQUAD
The EGB Young Rider Squad would gratefully accept the donation of any Tesco Club Vouchers. Chris Taylor Added - 07/04/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EQUINE BEHAVIOUR
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SAD PASSING of the 2007 JUNIOR CHAMPION of GB and CHESHIRE JUNIOR CHAMPION
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CHESHIRE WIN THE 2009 WEST RIDING CHALLENGE TROPHYCongratulations to the team of Pat Guerin riding Zhiwah and Chant, Terry Madden riding Medraar, Helen Newton riding Ley Lader and Sharna McClelland riding Fan Tan.The presentation will be at the Cheshire Forest Frolic. (Not sure which day). More details will appear in the next edition of the Newsletter due shortly. Chris Taylor Added - 21/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ADVERTISEMENTS OVER 3 MONTHS OLDMany of the entries on our advertisements page are very old and, although I ask advertisers to let me know when an advertisement is no longer required, I suspect many of them are in fact redundant. There may, of course, be many good reasons for not letting us know they are no longer required.With a desire to make sure the Advertisements page is as useful as possible I propose to treat every advertisement as "Time Expired" after 3 months and remove contact details and prices. The current (live) advertisements will stay at the top of the page above the others. If someone wants their advertisement to stay "live" they will have to ask for this to be done every 3 months. The date that each advertisement was posted is shown and I will see if it is feasable to add a date when it will expire. It is possible that it will be more convenient to trawl through them once a month - in that case all items posted, say, during January will expire at the end of April so they all get at least 3 months. I hope to start the tidying up process shortly. You can contact us by clicking here. Chris Taylor Added - 16/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE KENTUCKY SPONSORSHIP FORMAs many of you realise we are looking at methods of raising money to help the costs of our team at the world championships in Kentucky in 2010. If we are sending a team, plus one or two individuals then it is imperative that we send the best team and also the best prepared team as possible.These members are representing Endurance in Great Britain and we feel it is important that we support them in every way we can, especially with the costs of transport. A figure of £20.000 is the calculation to send each member there, so we need to be raising about £120,000. Even more important is the exposure that Endurance will get at home if we can achieve this, leading in the future to a greater membership and further sponsorship. In order to raise funds all E.G.B. members are asked to get themselves sponsored for every kilometre they ride at NCR.s, CR.s, or ER.s during the months of February, March and April. The form is self explanatory. On the front of the card write down your own details, and then the name, address and telephone number of your sponsors and include how much per km they are sponsoring you for. (either 1p per km, 5p per km or 10p per km). On the back of the card write down the date, venue and distance for each ride you have competed at and get it signed by the ride secretary on completion of the ride. I feel in these three months the average member will be riding approximately between 100 and 200 kilometers, some maybe a little less and some many more. Aim to get at least 20 sponsors onto your cards and hopefully each member could make between £200 and £400. Having collected your sponsorship money then send your completed cards back to the EGB Office (address below) with the appropriate money by the end of April. If you complete your card early then extra cards are available from headquarters, from Robert Blane (01845 526185) or can be downloaded from the links below. There will be a special prize for the individual who raises the most money and also for the group who does likewise. Good luck. Keep smiling. And here’s to winning the world championships. Click here for sponsorship form in Word .doc format. Click here for sponsorship form in pdf format. Endurance GB, National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2RP Added - 13/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PILATES FOR HORSE RIDERS
Members living near to Stafford (or prepared to travel there) may be interested to know that Sarah Light Charted Human and Veterinary Physiotherapist is starting a series of six weekly classes entitled Pilates for Horse Riders. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ARTICLES ON HYDRATION/DEHYDRATIONLucinda Stapleton has very kindly supplied us with two fascinating articles on hydration and dehydration in relation to our sport.You can read the articles by following this link to the Articles Index. Lucinda is very passionate about the subject of hydration and has written these articles in an attempt to educate people about dehydration in horses. Although she has recently embarked on a new venture with Horse Quencher the articles are not commercially-orientated. She used to write for various magazines and newspapers and has been concerned with the cold weather we have just had and the increased incidences of impaction colic due to horses not drinking enough. I am very grateful to Lucinda for making these articles available to us and am sure they will throw more light on this very important aspect of our horses welfare for many of us. Chris Taylor Added - 07/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIRST AID COVER AT EGB RIDESSet out below is a copy of the latest First Aid Guidance.This replaces the First Aid advice given in the Health & Safety document for ride organisers held on the EGB web site. FIRST AID COVER - Guidance on Emergency First Aid Cover at Endurance GB Ridden Events The Health and Safety of all people involved in or affected by activities organised by Endurance GB is of paramount importance. Hence suitable and sufficient Emergency First Aid coverage is an essential mandatory component of all Ridden Events (ie National and Training Rides). The level and extent of cover is a matter to be determined by the Ride Organiser through the normal Risk Assessment process which will take into account inter alia location and duration of event, terrain and hazards of route, numbers and experience of participants and public, proximity to Professional Medical Services and Facilities. The minimum requirement for all Ridden Events is that a Qualified Competent Person holding an in date First Aid at Work Certificate from an Approved Provider is available on the Venue. Suitable arrangements must also be in place to ensure that Professional Medical Services can be contacted swiftly when needed. The use of more than one individual is encouraged whenever possible. In addition, as the level of assessed risk increases the use of Paramedics and Doctors is strongly recommended. EGB H & S Representatives: 30 October 2009. Chris Taylor Added - 05/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CANCELLED
I am sorry to report that this event has now been cancelled due to lack of entries. My apologies to those who are disappointed. Chris Taylor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 FOR THE NORTH COMPETITION 2010Hi from the rules and administration committee.Firstly, thank you for registering and competing in this competition in 2009. If you didn’t where were you? The aim of this competition is to move away from ‘the most distance covered at speed’ method of celebrating success and using an adaptation of the French Formula, rewarding the thinking rider and to promote good preparation and skilled riding. Riding at a speed suited to the terrain, avoiding elimination by the vet and finishing with a low final heart rate (for the horse that is), will achieve the best results. As you know the progress of the competition through the season is publicised regularly through the website for EGB, and you can plot the progress of all the entrants throughout the season. In 2008 we had contestants from EGB and SERC in Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham, Dumfries, Scottish Borders, North East Yorkshire and Lancashire. The prizes sponsored by Bedmax were superb. The winner of the 2009 Bedmax Trophy was, Robert Newall riding Pocket, who received an engraved trophy and an embroidered rug, 2nd Phil Rice with Jewel from Lancashire, who received an embroidered saddlecloth and 3rd Julie Martin with Solitaire’s Star from North East Yorkshire, who received an embroidered waistcoat. The winner of the 2009 Cottee Trophy was Angela Johnson with her horse Bright Destiny, who received an engraved trophy and an embroidered rug, 2nd Paul Axcell on Ash and 3rd Barbara Austin riding Bonnie Lass. As you will know the competition is open to anyone countrywide who registers with the administrator by e mail as soon as they are planning their rides (no entries in retrospect). The competition this year follows the same successful format of the best of 4 rides counting towards the trophy points. It costs nothing to enter, and you gotta be in it to win it! Jackie Axcell has agreed to be the administrator of the competition for this season. Our marketing and PR person, has and will keep the sponsors, Bedmax and Classic Upholstery & Foam, fully aware of the promotional coverage of the competition. The same companies are also sponsors for the shaving beds at the Hexhamshire Trophy Ride and Best Condition for the 64km Competitive Ride. Click here for an application form in pdf format. Best wishes and good luck on the trail in 2010. Folding Stead Farmhouse Shield Hill Haltwhistle NE49 9NW Grid Ref: NY715648 EnduranceGB Northumberland & Tyneside Group Added - 05/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ONLINE UPGRADE FROM ASSOCIATE MEMBER TO FULL MEMBERDid you know that in addition to entering many rides online you can also upgrade from Associate Member to Full Member online?The EGB website has recently enhanced Membership Renewals on the web within the EGB website to allow Associate Members to upgrade to Full Membership. Associate Members who wish to do this should: i) Go to the Members Only area of the EGB website and enter their allocated EGB membership number and use their postcode as a password. ii) Click on “Apply for your website account password”, where they will be asked to enter their name, postcode and email address. iii) They will then receive their password by email if their name, postcode and email address they enter agrees with the records held by EGB, else they will receive their password by snail mail. iv) The Associate Member can then login to their Members Account and upgrade to Full Membership. A 50% discount on Joining Fee will be applied if they are upgrading their Associate Membership within the current membership year. As you know they can also register horses at the same time. Hopefully this will make it easier for Associate Members to upgrade if and when they wish to do so. Chris Taylor Added - 05/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ANNUAL AWARDS - II
Don't forget to fill in your Group Trophy and Help Registration Form for 2010.Cheshire Group Trophy Registration form in Word .doc format updated Jan 2010. Cheshire Group Trophy Registration form in pdf format updated Jan 2010. You need to register using this form to qualify for the Group Trophies. Don't forget to order your tickets for this year's Awards Presentation Evening and Meal on 4th February from:- Pat Guerin The Laurels, Brick Bank Lane, Allostock, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9LZ Tel: 01477 534194 Email: pat.guerin@talk21.com. See Social Events for more details of the evening. Added - 24/01/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ANNUAL AWARDS
It's that time of year when members are asked to send their Distance Cards to Pennie Drummond so she can identify the annual award winners for our AGM and Presentation evening on the 4th February 2010. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EQUITHON SUCCESS - £10,800 RAISED FOR CHARITIES
We are very lucky in Cheshire that throughout the late summer and autumn months there are a number of endurance and charity donation rides to prolong our riding season – so the Cheshire Group took a bit of a gamble with introducing a new type of endurance ride as a charity fund raising event into the riding calendar at this time of year.Designed in parallel with our counterpart two legged running events, the Equithon was the UK’s first sponsored horse riding charity challenge to ride either a full (26.5 miles) or half (13.2 miles) marathon distance, either by riding as an individual rider or in a team of 4 riders....if a marathon can be achieved on two legs, then why not 4? Seven charities were preselected from which the riders could choose up to two to support and raise sponsorship for. The charities supported by this first event were:
The ride intended to accommodate a larger number of riders than the Milton Green pleasure ride held in the same area and so the hunt began for a larger venue to host the event. This hunt began last January! Given the wet weather over the last couple of summers it proved impossible to secure a large field from one of the local farmers. Through a couple of acquaintances working for Grosvenor Farms the concept of the event was put forward to his Grace, the Duke of Westminster and to our delight (and relief) he very kindly allowed us to host the event on the former aerodrome on the Eaton Estate south of Chester and allow us to ride through part of the Estate grounds. We could not have hoped for better! In addition to the meadows, deer park and woodland on the Eaton Estate, the riding route utilised bridleways of the Bishop Bennett Way, stubble fields, hunting tracks, meadows and other permissive bridleways over private land. There were plenty of opportunities to let the horse stretch their legs – including one meadow that was nearly ¾ mile long! The 26.5mile route had approximately 19 miles of off road riding –quite an achievement. The event day was Sunday 13th September. The spell of warm weather had just begun. We were blessed with a lovely sunny and dry day and the ground conditions for riding could not have been better. 120 riders arrived on the day to ride the event. Approximately 75% of these riders had either done very little or no endurance riding and generally participated in other riding disciplines or shorter distance pleasure riding. A fantastic array of horses and ponies came including Arabs, Thoroughbreds, Warm Bloods, Irish Draft, Halfinger, native breeds and coloured cobs. Edleston Equestrian Academy, Nantwich brought their South American Criollo horses to take part in the team events. Size...ponies to 17hh! Not quite as international as the horse breeds, most of the riders came from the Cheshire area – however, the event did attract riders from as far as Buxton, Derbyshire and Chorley, Lancashire. A couple of riders travelled from as far as Dumfriesshire, Scotland to participate. The atmosphere at the venue was very relaxed and despite a couple of occurrences throughout the day (generally to be expected), the day ran very smoothly on the whole. The riders filtered out onto the course from 9.30am onwards and all made it safely around the course. Helpers out on the course commented that it was riding very fast...coupled with the good going, it was obvious that the riders had invested time into their horses to get them fit for the event. The contrast on the faces of some of the riders from showing a little anxiety at the start to smiles of achievement at the finish was wonderful to see. The horses too came in alert and in great condition. After vetting, the ride results were as follows:
The ride proved to be a huge success: happy riders and happy horses and, through the fantastic efforts by the riders to raise sponsorship, an amazing £10,800 has been raised for the charities. Comments returned: George VII from the Cheshire Horse web site: “I had a great day, one of the best rides I've taken my "trusty steed" to. Thought the ride was fab and the event well organised, and it was great to meet like minded, friendly riders, all out for a good time with their horses. Will be there next year if the event is going to be held. Well done to everyone” El&ol from the Bridleways website: “We had a great time the event was very well organised” Henryhorse from the Bridleways website: “I thoroughly enjoyed this ride - Thank you for organising it. The route was really well marked. My lad finished with the lowest heart rate of the season so far so he's obviously fitter than I realised” The Cheshire Group would like to take this opportunity to thank their Graces, the Duke and Duchess of Westminster for their generosity by allowing us the aerodrome and privilege of riding through the Eaton Estate; staff of the Eaton Estate and Grosvenor Farms for their time, help and support for this event; local landowners and Cheshire West Council. For their generous sponsorship and provision of prizes, we would like to thank the following:
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CADENCE EXHIBITION - 21-22 November 2009
A big thank you to everyone who came up to say "Hello". We met many riders who are thinking of trying Endurance Riding and answered as many questions as we could. If, for any reason you missed us, have forgotten (or are confused by) something we said or you have another burning question you wished you had asked please send an email by clicking here and we'll do our best to help.We would, of course, be pleased if you decide to join us but, if you are still unsure if Endurance is for you, we would invite you to visit us at one of our events to see what goes on or even maybe help a little if you wish. We don't think you'll regret it. Please keep an eye on our What's On page to keep up with next year's events as they are firmed up. Finally, as always, a big thank you to those who manned the stand.
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TRICIA HIRST - MARATHON LADYGroup member Tricia Hirst has sent this message:-"Having done the London Marathon this year and having just returned from completing the New York marathon, I have just had my entry accepted for my next challenge - The Comrades marathon which is actually an Ultra marathon 56 miles in under 12 hours. This takes place in South Africa every year and you can read all about it at www.comrades.com/. Runners come from all over the world and out of the 20,000 runners they only accept 5,000 first time novice runners each year. These places were taken up within 27hrs of the opening date. I am hoping to raise funds for two causes. The first is the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre which many of you helped me in raising £3,700 for them when I ran London. I know many of you, like me (my brother has MS), are touched by people who have this disease and the MSRC sorely needs our funds. Please look at my webpage www.justgiving.com/Tricia-Hirst. Also next year, as many of you know EGB are going to try and send a team to the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. However, because we are not an olympic sport we have to raise a lot of funds ourselves. I have always strongly believed that money should not stop anyone putting their name forward to compete on a British team. So any money you can spare would go towards the team effort to enable anyone who is selected to have the opportunity to go and fly the flag for us. If you would like to help in this way and sponsor me on my endurance challenge please send me a cheque made out to EGB and send to me at: Cefn du Bach, Meifod, Powys SY22 6YF or give it to me at the AGM. I will then make sure it goes directly towards helping the British team. We would be very grateful no matter how much or how little you can afford. Thank you." Well done and best of luck from all of us Tricia - Chris Taylor Added - 22/11/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ANDRAYA HISCOCK
We recently drew your attention to Sarah Light, a human and equine physiotherapist based in Uttoxeter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WARNING - UNEXPECTED PLAITS IN MANES AND TAILSA horse owner at Bryn Bedw, Llangynhafal was surprised recently to find a strange small plait in the mane of one of her horses.The following tale (which could explain this strange event) was sent to me in good faith and I pass it on to you in the same vein: On Monday (2 Nov) night my friend’s horse was stolen from a field in the Guildford area. The people who took her sawed through a wooden post and rail fence to get out and this happened between 3pm and 6pm in the afternoon. The police were informed and so were the microchip company who circulated her details to all the ferry ports etc. As you can imagine the owner was completely distraught. Late Tuesday (3 Nov) afternoon she received a phone call from the police to say her horse had been found in Holyhead, Wales. She was tied to a railing at the ferry port and the ferry to Ireland had gone without her. So today she is driving to Wales to pick her up. Several things have come to light in this story: 1. A week ago her horse had a small plait in its mane when she went to get her in from the field. She describes it as very small, almost like a tangle. She disregarded it as kids messing about (her horses are out in a field with others). However, this is how people mark horses to be stolen later i.e. one person marks them, another then comes later and knows which one to take. 2. The ferry port at Holyhead do not check horses passports or microchips. This horse was travelling without a passport. 3. The police believe the reason this horse was left behind was because she was microchipped. Although the UK is lax about passport and microchip checking, it is apparently more common for horses to be scanned on entering Ireland. The people who take them will scan them and dump them if they find a microchip. This horse also had a large obvious scar so this may have been a contributing factor. The police told her that horses being dumped at a ferry terminal is not uncommon and they usually turn out to be stolen. They have had horses left in a lorry on the actual ferry! This story has a happy ending for H and E, but it makes you wonder how many other stolen horses were on that ferry to Ireland. The owner has asked me not to give any more details because of the police investigation that is on going, but has given her permission for me to relay this story, mainly to highlight: 1. If you find your horse with a small plait in its mane or tail please do not ignore it. I thought it was common knowledge that people knew about this, but several people I've spoken to since were not aware of it. 2. If your horse isn’t microchipped please consider doing it. The owner of this horse describes her as ‘nothing flashy, just a normal 14.2 bay mare’ so please don’t think it couldn’t happen to you. Please do not ask me to provide more details regarding the horse or owner as I can’t, but please spare a happy thought today for H and E who should be having a (probably very emotional) reunion in Holyhead later on today. Please forward this email onto any other horsey people you know. The more people who know about plaits and microchips the better... So, along with all the other security measures you take, please keep a look out for the appearance of a small plait in any of your horses manes or tails. Mention this to anyone with horses who may not appreciate the possible reason for a plait suddenly appearing. Chris Taylor Added - 15/11/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DO YOU HOLD A FIRST AID AT WORK CERTIFICATE?
Liz Finney would like to hear from anyone who already holds a First Aid At Work certificate or anyone prepared to take the necessary steps to obtain one of these certificates. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JACKIE THOMPSON CHARITY RIDE
Christine Harding has written to thank all Cheshire EGB riders who supported the Charity Ride organised by the Dark Peak Bridleways Association in September in memory of Jackie Thompson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HELEN NEWTON at COSFORD GRANGE
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CADENCE EVENT AT AINTREE
Last year the Group had a stand at the Cadence event held at the Aintree International Equestrian Centre where we explained the pleasures of Endurance to anyone who stopped by. It was seen as an ideal chance to bring Endurance to the attention of a horse orientated audience that might have very limited knowledge of what we do. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HELPERS REQUIRED PLEASE
Pat Guerin reports that she is short of helpers for this ride. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
KATY MELLOR
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PROPOSED NEW GOVERNMENT "TAX ON HORSES"
Karen Lewty has sent us the following Press Release relating to a proposed new Government "Tax on Horses":- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SHARNA McLELLAND
Brilliant. Here's a chance to report on another local young rider achieving success. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HARRY INGRAM
Congratulations to Harry Ingram and his helpers for coming 4th in the 120km Endurance Ride at Sherwood. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MORE HELP REQUIRED FROM CHESHIRE GROUP MEMBERS!Your committee members have repeatedly asked Cheshire Group members for help at events, and it has been very obvious this year that only a few members are willing to offer help.If we had to rely solely on members volunteering, our rides this year would not have run. We need at least 10 helpers to run any competitive event, and usually require about 20, depending on the number of stewards needed out on route. The events have run as organisers have phoned round friends and family to assist. All our rides have been organised by committee members or former committee members. Steff Wagstaff-Bethell spent almost nine months organising the country's first Equithon, which raised over £8,500 for charity and brought endurance riding some excellent publicity. We had about 4 volunteers from Cheshire members out on the day, apart from committee members. We need more ride organisers. That is why the Snelson ride didn't happen and the Wirral ride, booked for July 3rd 2010, needs someone. Muriel Taylor is the secretary and I am happy to work with a new organiser, but my commitments as chef d'equipe for the British team take too much time for me to be the official organiser for next year. We are also having a stand at the Cadence exhibition at Aintree on November 21/22nd weekend, where again we need help. It is another good opportunity to promote the sport. Thank you, all of you who have helped this year, we really do appreciate it. Those who haven't, please think when you can offer a few hours of your time to promote the sport you enjoy, and to make sure we can run the rides and other events for your benefit. Liz Finney Added - 16/09/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equithon 2009
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Robin Hood Ride, Southwell
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Clocaenog Ride - 6th September 2009 Helpers NeededKate Williams has worked extremely hard to resurrect this ride for the Group but now finds she needs some more helpers on the day.Please consider helping at this ride if you possibly can. I know Kate (and the Group) would appreciate your time and support. Kate can be contacted on 01745 890571 or send an email to kate@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk. Chris Taylor Added - 19/08/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North West Inter Regional TeamPat Guerin writes:-A big THANK YOU to our North West Inter Regional Team from myself and Flick for a valiant performance at the weekend. It was a lovely venue and challenging route for all distances. We had quite a few problems but still managed 4th place out of seven and the team morale was fantastic. Thanks to all for your co-operation and support and roll on next year. The Cheshire Team members were Harry Ingram, Mary Korn, Shelby France, Kathryn Watterson, Katy Mellor and Sally Mellor. Well done all of you. Pat Added - 11/08/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cancer Research Ride
Many of us remember Jackie Thompson as a long time group member and friend. You may, therefore, be interested to learn that the Dark Peak Bridleways Association are organising a ride for the benefit of Cancer Research dedicated to the memory of Jackie. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Calling all Young Instructors
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Safeguarding and Protecting Children
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Kelly Marks at the Bold Heath Equestrian Centre on Wednesday 19th August 2009 from 10.00am to 4.00pm (approx.). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Endurance World OnlineI received the following message which endurance folk may be interested in:-Please read the 37th issue of www.enduranceworldonline.com and international e-magazine. No payment required, just open the web site and read reports on endurance rides around the world. If you have missed the previous issue no problem Each issue is archived for 24 months. Chris Taylor. Added - 20/07/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Two Foals StolenJane Thirsk, Watch Officer, Cheshire Police has circulated the following message:-"STOLEN FROM CRANFORD 2AM TUESDAY There are 2 foals out there 7 and 8 weeks old and two mares full of milk, distraught home here. I don't know whether to dry them up or risk mastitis hoping the foals are found. IT IS SO SO SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU TELL AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN EVEN IF THEY DONT HAVE HORSES AS PEOPLE KNOW PEOPLE THAT DO PLEASE!!!! I WOULDN'T ASK IF I WASN'T DESPERATE." Please contact Jane Thirsk on 01244 612725 if you have can help in any way at all. Chris Taylor Added - 07/07/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WIRRAL RIDE
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Inter Regional Championships 2009
Pat Guerin and Flick Edmeston are pleased to announce that the following riders have been selected to represent the North West Region at the Inter Regional Championships at Barbury Castle on the weekend of August 8th/9th 2009. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inter Regional Championships 2009The Inter Regional Championships will be held this year at the Ridgeway Barbury Castle Ride on the weekend of 8th & 9th August. Following our impressive win last year we are keen to field another strong team & repeat the process.The ER classes & the 80 km CR class will be ridden on the Saturday & the remaining CR classes of 65, 50 & 40 km will be on the Sunday. We are particularly looking for Open & Novice horse & rider combinations to ride the Sunday classes. If you are interested in representing the North West Region & fancy a fabulous ride plus a sociable weekend & all the fun & excitement of riding for a team please get in touch with me as soon as possible. I estimate that the journey to the venue would be approximately 3 hours drive from Cheshire which isn't too bad at all. I know there are plenty of you out there at both Open & Novice level who have been competing regularly so please send me your details & come & join us so we can make a serious attempt to retain our trophy for another year. Send an email to pat@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk or phone 01477 534194. Pat Guerin (Joint Chef d'Equipe) Added - 14/06/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Northern Pony Clubs Endurance ChallengeCalling all riders in the area – pony club members, riding club members, eventers, show jumpers, dressage riders and those who just enjoy riding in the beautiful English countryside.Have you ever thought of trying Endurance Riding? Well here’s your opportunity. The Bedale and West of Yore Pony Club are running the Northern Pony Clubs Endurance Challenge at Clifton Castle, nr. Bedale on Sun 5th July. Open to all, whether Pony Club Members or not, adults or children. You can chose between two routes, one of 18 and the other of 30km in the beautiful Lower Wensleydale, testing your own and your horse’s fitness by achieving the set distance at an approved time. Click here for a schedule and entry form in Word .doc format. Click here for a schedule and entry form in PDF format. For more details contact Robert Blane 01845 526185 or 07740 508462. Added - 14/06/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE FOREST FROLIC 2009 – THANKSCarol Goodwin wrote:Dear Pat Just a quick note to say how much we enjoyed the Kelsall Hill ride on Sunday - it was our first ride with Endurance GB and it was very well organised and the route was very well marked, and the view over Cheshire by the radio masts was stunning. We had intended to do the whole weekend but were unable to do so because of Sue's family engagement on Saturday evening, but if you do the weekend again next year we hope to be there! Many thanks for a job well done. Kind regards Carol Goodwin & Sue Harris Harley & Gnashie  Niki Burns wrote: Dear Pat, I want to say a huge thank-you to you and all the volunteers for a fantastic day. Despite my "over-competitive" horse, I had a really great ride - once we got some miles under-hoof, we both really relaxed and enjoyed the journey! I don't think I've ever had so much off-road and good going in one ride. As we made our way round I become more conscious about how many people had given up their time to make it such a well-organised and pleasurable ride for us riders - we are truely spoilt. You know, I didn't even have a map (nor had I ever looked at it, since my friends from whom we had to part company with had all the details and you know, I didn't go wrong even once!!) THANK YOU!! Niki Burns & Skye 
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CHESHIRE FOREST FROLIC 2009 – Awards
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CHESHIRE FOREST FROLIC
The photographs I took (all 225 of them) on Sunday 31st May at Kelsall are now available at http://muriel3.fotopic.net/. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WIRRAL RIDEHelpers WantedOrganiser Liz Finney is looking for some more helpers for our Wirral Ride on Saturday 4th July. If you can assist please contact Liz on 01565 633310 or send an email to liz@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk.Save PostageThere will be a box at both days of the Forest Frolic for anyone to place their Wirral Ride Entry. This will save you the cost of postage in one direction. Please place your entry in an envelope to keep all the papers together including your return envelope with postage paid.Chris Taylor Added - 25/05/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Impulsion Magazine now OnlineThe British Equestrian Federation (of which EGB is a member body) has issued the following Press Release:-The third issue of Impulsion, the official magazine of Equestrian Team GBR, is now online at www.impulsiononline.com. Inside you will find an eclectic mix of articles and stunning photography as well as exclusive details on Team GBR Ontrack which officially launches this July in partnership with the equestrian Olympic and Paralympic teams via British Eventing and their Gold Medal Club, the British Show Jumping Association and British Dressage. Team GBR Ontrack will be open to riders and non-riders of all ages and will help to improve the enjoyment of being around, owning and competing horses with the specific aim of raising the profile of equestrian sport in the UK and the funds needed to help potential medal winners train, compete, and achieve their goals. There is also the usual great mix of features including an interview with infamous equestrian stunt specialist, Vic Armstrong; a fashion shoot with World Class Development rider Lara Griffiths; The Pony Club celebrating their 80th anniversary and an insight into a unique African Safari. As promised, since the last issue, there has been some work behind the scenes so the quality of the magazine is simply stunning. Pictures are crisper, type is easier to read and there is added zoom in functionality. There is also a new picture gallery, which includes a selection of our favourite shots including those from Badminton 2009. We recommend that new visitors to Impulsion read the 'How to use VCAB' guide in the top menu bar of the magazine to get some handy hints and tips on reading Impulsion. We hope you enjoy the new issue and that it inspires you to join Team GBR Ontrack – register now to receive priority joining information as soon as it is available and to be in with chance of winning our fantastic competition. It is a free read of horsey things in general but I couldn't see much relating to Endurance on a quick flick through. Chris Taylor Added - 14/05/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
STEINMARK FIRE OPALJust a couple of photographs of Steph Wagstaff-Bethell's new foal Steinmark Fire Opal.  Left click for a larger picture Sadly Steff lost Carla during the birth but, more happily, Opal has been successfully adopted by her foster Mum Golden Russet (seen in one of the photos). Chris Taylor Added - 10/05/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Safeguarding & Protecting Children - Duty of Care WorkshopThe BHS are running this Duty of Care Workshop at Ryders Farm, Kearsley on 5 May and there are just a few places still available.If you are interested click here to see a booking form in Word .doc format. Chris Taylor Added - 30/04/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HOME INTERNATIONALS - Ludlow, 17-19 July 2009Maggie Pattinson, the Chef d'Equipe of the English team, is looking for competitiors from Novice to International level for this event.If you are interested drop Maggie an email at onthehoofdt@hotmail.co.uk. Please click here to see a poster in Word .doc format or here for a poster in PDF format. For our North Wales members/readers: Pat Conn is the Welsh team organiser and she is looking for horses and riders for all distances which must be qualified at their level. She particularly needs to fill the 160 class if anyone can help. The criteria is that riders must live in Wales (and have done so for at least 1yr) or have been born in Wales. You can contact Pat on 01974 298584. Chris Taylor Added - 26/04/2009 Updated - 27/04/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE FOREST FROLIC - 30/31 May 2009It's not long to go now 'till our two day event in Delamere Forest and at Kelsall Hill. There are seperate competitive and pleasure rides on each day and one competitive ride that spans both days. So there's something for everyone over the weekend.Just to whet your appetite perhaps this is an ideal time to remind you that there will be several prizes each day as well. On Saturday the Eld Trophy will be awarded to the Best Shod horse. This attractive Trophy was presented by Sue Evans and she is the current holder. Sue tells me she intends to come and retain it for yet another year. The Eld Trophy  - can you be the first to wrest it off Sue?Heather Warburton of ESTATE SUPPLIES COUNTRY STORE has agreed to kindly donate prizes for the Top Senior on each day in the 40km classes and we are working on prizes for the top places in the 2 day 80km ride. There will also be prizes for junior riders as well ... Best Condition, Best Turned Out, etc. We are also hoping that BAILEY'S HORSE FEEDS will continue to give their support and provide some prizes. For the record, some of last year's prize winners were:- Best Condition Awards - Saturday Kath McGhee - Foxghylls Folly  Linda Cowperthwaite - Maraday MystaronMolly Corcoran - Pillheath Royal Paddy Timothy Jones - Khezya Best Condition Awards - Sunday Kath McGhee - Foxghylls Folly  Suzanne Chamberlain - Night Owl Karen Corr - Indian Nuhra Sally Mellor - Halim el ShaklanBest Shod Horse - Saturday - The Eld Trophy  Rose Collection - Sue EvansBest Shod Horse - Sunday Threeshires Equinox - Anne Farley Best Turned Out - Saturday Julie Sutton - Zak  Charlotte Chadwick - Abissinia
Best Turned Out - Sunday Rita Tweddle - Zarra Mandees  Katy Mellor - Angelina GinnyWe look forward to seeing you on at least one of the days. Chris Taylor (sorry I don't have pictures of all the winners!) Added - 22/04/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JACKIE THOMPSONWe are very sorry to hear that Jackie Thompson died on Sunday, after a long illness.Jackie was one of the first members of the Cheshire group and a committee member for a number of years. She competed in events all over the country with her horses and was also a member of the first North-West team which won the Inter-regional trophy at Euston Park in 1999. Jackie and her husband Bert supported the teams whenever she was not riding and frequently acted as extra crew for all the team members, contributing to the great record that the North -West team has in the event. She was a lovely person and will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with Bert and the family. The funeral is on Tuesday, April 14th at 1.0pm at St. Matthews Church, Hayfield. Added - 08/04/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Francois Lemaire de Ruffieu Clinic May 2009
A special announcement from Lisa Pritchard:-Hi Everyone As many of you know Francois Lemaire de Ruffieu is returning to the UK from 16th May through to 20th May this year to deliver a weekend clinic and three training days. The venue is Hunter's Gate, Byley Lane, Middlewich and we have the use of their wonderful indoor school for the whole event. However, this is going to be an extra special clinic, as Francois will be accompanied by his lifetime friend Jean-Louis Guntz who will be working alongside Francois throughout. Here is a brief Biog of Jean-Louis Guntz: After 43 years in the world famous Cadre Noir in Saumur, France, Riding Master, Jean-Louis Guntz left office on 16th December 2008. Jean-Louis Guntz joined the military in 1962 at the age of 19 and trained under the Chief Ecuyer, Colonel Lair, inspiring him to aspire to the elite Cadre Noir. In 1965, Jean-Louis wore the black uniform for the first time and never looked back. Since then, the Cadre Noir offered him the opportunity to ride in all the major equestrian disciplines, racing, both flat and jump, eventing, showjumping and dressage. He was involved with the French national team in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Jean-Louis’s membership of this elite corps gave him the opportunity to travel worldwide. Japan, Uruguay, Senegal, Iran, Hong Kong as well as Europe and the United States. He was able to perform with the Cadre Noir and also teach and train around the world. 30 years of training jumping horses has resulted in an international reputation for Jean-Louis Guntz in this particular discipline and he has written a treatise on how to train jumping horses. However, Jean-Louis is the ultimate all round master horseman, and is equally able to train horses to perform all high school movements, including the airs above the ground. On several occasions Jean-Louis has acted as Chief Ecuyer of the Cadre Noir and on his last gala attendance in Brussels in early December the Ecuyer in Chief – Colonel Jean-Michel Faure stepped aside during the final part of the performance to allow Riding Master Jean-Louis Guntz to greet the public at the head of the Cadre Noir in recognition of his exceptional career. As you can imagine this is a thrilling opportunity to see not one, but two Cadre Noir riding masters pass on their skills and knowledge to those lucky enough to bag a place on the course. Both Francois and Jean-Louis will ride on the training days (Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday) so this is a real must see clinic. Spectator places are £30 per day. Am expecting places to go fast, so please let me know asap if you would like a place and which days. Regards Lisa Pritchard. The Modern Horse Tel: 01565 651469 mob: 07931 351183 email: lisapritchard@themodernhorse.co.uk website: www.themodernhorse.co.uk Added - 30/03/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Endurance Blogs at Horse HeroJo Claridge (Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of EGB) has issued a message regarding a series of blogs to appear on the Horse Hero website over the coming months. If they get sufficient hits on these pages it may encourage them to prepare more endurance items and give our sport greater exposure.Jo writes: The website Horse Hero (www.horsehero.com) has just started a six-month series of blogs about the Golden Horseshoe Ride and endurance riding. The blogs, written by Nikki Routledge, will appear at regular intervals and it will help to sustain the site's interest in endurance if it records a healthy number of hits. Please can you all circulate this information and have a look as the more hits they get from Endurance people will encourage the website to continue featuring Endurance related things - which is good for us! (I know that they can't tell exactly who is looking at their website but if there is interest in the endurance related items then they will do more - hope this explains it!) Cheers, Jo Do visit the site at www.horsehero.com. You will find the blogs by clicking on the link "CELEBRITY BLOGS" near the top of their Home page and then selecting "Nikki Routledge". Please pass the word around by telling your friends (and any anyone else who will listen to you). Chris Taylor Added - 29/03/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MORI POLL for SPORT ENGLANDMORI have been commissioned by Sport England to establish how satisfied participants are with their sport.To give an idea of the nature of this poll I can do no more than copy this extract from their official website: In order to measure and track satisfaction with the quality of the sporting experience, the Sport England Research Team is developing an innovative research methodology. For the first time we will have a detailed measure of participant satisfaction with their sporting experience. The aim of the research is to provide a statistically robust measure of satisfaction with the quality of the sporting experience by individual sport, as a basis for tracking the achievement of national targets for each sport. The survey will also support improved planning and investment decisions by providing greater understanding and knowledge of satisfaction profiles in each sport. We will be measuring satisfaction in more than 40 different sports, and within each sport, across three levels of engagement - general participants, affiliated club members and the talent pool. The survey will measure satisfaction across different areas or 'domains', to include: value for money, performance, social/belonging, facilities and playing environment, logistics/organisation, diversion/release, exertion & fitness, officiating and coaching. Apparently it takes just 2 minutes register and then, assuming they want your assistance, they will send an email to you within the next couple of months inviting you to fill in the questionaire. This could well be a good way to raise the profile of our sport and, maybe, a chance to see what improvements participants would like to see. To go to the web site click here. Chris Taylor Added - 26/03/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rent'a'CrewFrom this year onwards the EGB Young Riders will be offering a crewing service available to everyone!!!.To give you an idea of what to expect: £5 per person per hour for a full time crew (driver/helper) or just £3 per trot up if that's all you need. All money goes to the Young Riders fund. For more information click here to see a poster in Word .doc format. If you're interested you can also be part of the Rent’a’Crew team. See the poster for more information on this. Chris Taylor Added - 24/03/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maggie Maguire Awarded BEF Medal of HonourMost of you will already know that Maggie Maguire (our former Chairman and long time Committee Member) has been awarded the BEF Medal of Honour for her services to the International effort. The Medal is awarded for oustanding services to the Federation.Maggie stood down from the Board of EGB at the November 2008 AGM having served on the Board for several years, latterly as "Chair of International". We are sure she will be greatly missed. Many congratulations Maggie on a well deserved Award. Chris Taylor Added - 23/03/2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Membership Renewal & Cheshire Group Horse RegistrationPlease note that all membership fees for 2009 have increased. Full EGB membership is now £45 and Associate Membership is £17.EGB forms are on the national website and Associate Membership forms can be found by clicking on the appropriate links below. Cheshire Group Horse Registration forms can be found by clicking on the appropriate links below. Please print out, complete and return if you wish to be eligible for Cheshire Trophies and Distance Awards. Cheshire Group Trophy Registration form in Word .doc format Chris Taylor Added - 18/12/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheshire Trophies and Distance Awards for the 2008 SeasonIf you registered for the Cheshire Trophies and Distance Awards for the 2008 Season then NOW is the time to lodge details of your rides.Distance cards should be submitted to Pennie Drummond, Pine View Farm, 69 Northwich Road, Cranage, Nr Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9LE by 31st December 2008. Please complete the following before forwarding:
The Trophies and Awards will be presented on 6th February 2009 at the Group's AGM. See Social Events for more details. Chris Taylor Added - 18/12/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Local Riders on EGB 2009 Calendar
An official EGB 2009 Calendar is now available on the EGB website for £6.98.However, at the time of writing, Liz Finney has a small stock of EGB Calendars available at £5 plus p&p. They appear to be of a similar design but have a different front cover and do not have a board back. They are approximately 21cm x 30cm. These calendars include three photos of some local riders. Please see the illustrative photos above. All rights of the original photographers (West End Photography and David Saunders) are acknowledged. Hovering your mouse over each thumbnail will provide details and a left double click will bring up a larger image. Please note these pictures are for information only and the photographs on the glossy calendar itself are of a much higher quality. As can be seen these are very attractive calendars and the purchase of them helps support EGB. Just the thing to brighten a tack room, stable or indeed anywhere else. Could this be the perfect (I won't mention the "C" word) present for someone you know into Endurance Riding or may be a treat for yourself? You can contact Liz at liz@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk. Chris Taylor Added - 10/12/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WELCOME to any new visitors
If you are a new visitor to our site and you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us. We will do our best to answer your questions or put you in touch with someone who can. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Provisional List of Events in the North West for 2009.Here is a list of most events proposed for the North West next year. This will give you an idea of what is available locally. There are likely to be a few changes as time progresses so please check details with the National/Group's websites.04 Jan 09 Charity Ride - Lancaster - Lancashire Group 11 Jan 09 New Year PR - Buxton - Derbyshire Group 08 Feb 09 Training Day & PR - Knutsford - Cheshire Group 22 Feb 09 ‘Endurance Explored’ - Comberbach - Cheshire Group 22 Mar 09 Ulnes Walton PR - Leyland - Lancashire Group 28 Mar 09 Teggs Nose SR - Macclesfield - Cheshire Group 29 Mar 09 Ullswater CR & PR - Ullswater - Cumbria Group 19 Apr 09 Croal Irwell CR & PR - Bolton - Lancashire Group 09 May 09 Peak District CR & PR - Hartington - Derbyshire Group 17 May 09 Tebay CR & PR - Tebay - Cumbria Group 30/31 May 09 Cheshire Forest Frolic - Delamere - Cheshire Group -- Jun 09 Buxton SR - Buxton - Derbyshire Group 06/07 Jun 09 Wharncliffe Chase CR & PR - Sheffield - West Riding Group Jun/Jul 09 Snelson SR - Chelford - Cheshire Group -- Jul 09 Croal Irwell PR - Bolton - Lancashire Group 04 Jul 09 Wirral CR & PR - Thurstaston - Cheshire Group 12 Jul 09 Last of the Summer Wine CR & PR - Holmfirth - West Riding Group 19 Jul 09 Bakewell CR & PR - Bakewell - Derbyshire Group Aug 09 Milton Green PR - Chester - Cheshire Group Aug 09 Coniston Cold Weekend PR - Skipton - Lancashire Group 29/30 Aug 09 Cumbria Challenge CR & PR - Shap - Cumbria Group 06 Sep 09 Clocaenog CR & PR - North Wales - Cheshire Group 13 sep 09 ‘Equithon’ Charity Ride - Chester - Cheshire Group 03 Oct 09 Rivington CR & PR - Horwich - Lancashire Group You can see the other Group's websites by clicking on the links above. Chris Taylor Added - 01/12/2008 Updated - 09/12/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Get Extreme for Strangles.The BHS are seeking to raise money for the BHS/Animal Health Trust Strangles Appeal. They are offering the opportunity of making an exhilarating 10,000 feet freefall parachute jump. They stress no experience is required and if you raise the minimum amount of sponsorship you will get to jump for FREE!Karen Lewty writes:- Whilst this may seem like the only thing in the world that some of you (myself included!) would not want to do, I am sure that all of you know of a thrill seeker somewhere or a place to put up a poster.... The aim is to make a real impact on the fundraising and provide people with an experience of a lifetime. The goal is £30,000 so I would really appreciate you spreading the word! Many thanks in advance for your help and support! Karen Lewty Development Officer BHS North West Region For a free information pack call 01202 558515 or email: a.watson@bhs.org.uk Click here for the poster and print it out if you know somewhere it can be displayed. Added - 10/11/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Endurance GB - AGM & Dinner
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15hh 11yo grey mare (ready to start Endurance)
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Petition for Endurance to be included in the 2012 Olympics.There is a petition to the Prime Minister seeking the inclusion of an Endurance Ride in the 2012 Olympics.Apart from being a great opportunity for home based riders to shine it would also be good advertising for the sport. Visit http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Endurance2012/ for more information and join in if you wish. Chris Taylor Added - 28/10/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GB Young Rider Team
The young rider team, including Kay Counter from Derbyshire, came home with 4th place in the team event. This is the best GB has ever done in Europe! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Death of Northwest team horse
Michelle France writes:It is with great sadness I have to report our horse Magi passed away this morning after a short illness. Magi was part of the successful Northwest team who won the inter regional championship at Ludlow this year . Shelby and Magi were also lying in 3rd place in the national championship. Magi was taken ill after the Piddle ride and never recovered. He has left a big hole in our hearts and Shelby is devastated. They had such a big future ahead of them. I would like to thank all the support we have received from everyone this last few weeks. Sadly, I fear most of us know how dreadful Shelby, Michelle and their family must be feeling right now and, on behalf of everyone, I offer our sincere good wishes. Chris Taylor Added - 20/09/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autumn Frolic 2008 – Awards
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A beige fleece top found at Delamere on Saturday
If you think the beige fleece top found at our Autumn Frolic Ride at Delamere may be yours then please contact Pat Guerin - Tel: 01477 534194 or Email: pat@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best Shod Horse or Pony Trophy
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Autumn Frolic - HELPERS WANTEDThank you to those who have already volunteered but I will need some more helpers on both days & most importantly I need people to come and help mark the route for a few hours on Friday 12th September.The more we have the quicker we can do it! Please contact Pat Guerin on 01477 534194 or email: pat@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk Added - 22/08/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bridleways PetitionSome of you may already know there is a petition to the Prime Minister to provide funding and use legislation for the creation of new public bridleways.I am sure most riders would find more bridleways useful so, if you are prepared to sign in (and haven't already done so), head over to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/publicbridleways/ and add your name etc. The deadline to sign up by is 28 May 2009. Added - 15/08/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NORTH WEST TEAM WIN AT THE INTER REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Congratulations to the team of 5 Cheshire and 7 Derbyshire riders who last weekend won the above competition at Ludlow. Team chefs Pat Guerin and Flick Edmeston wish to thank all their riders and crews for such a brilliant effort. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lindum Spirit Success for CheshireThe Cheshire Tigers team representing our Group and comprised of Kate Williams on Alderney Prince, Gaynor Jones on Squire, Maura Amies on Muharaam and Jane Stewart on Chant travelled to Lindum and took their place against 6 other regional teams in the 160k Team Spirit relay ER on 25 July 2008 and were delighted to finish 2nd against very stiff competition.The first horses went out at 6.00 a.m in the mist and the coolest part of the day and threw down the gauntlet in terms of the high level of competition and speed. Almost all the horses came in bang on the 18k maximum speed, including Maura and Muharaam in their first ever ER event, and vetted quickly (about 3 minutes). Our second horse out was Gaynor on Squire who set out at about 8.30 a.m. Thankfully it was still not too hot by then and despite Gaynor's concerns about Squire (he had had an abcess the week before and does NOT like the heat) they cruised round and maintained our fourth position. Kate Williams and Prince went out on the third leg - it was by now very hot but the course was ridng very quickly and although the horses were more strung out by then the competition was still very keen. Prince came in at 18k and presented in 3 minutes, giving our last rider, Jane a real fighting chance to do the team proud on the last leg - which she and Chant did - and then some. Unlike the first 3 horses in each team the last rider's riding time finishes when the horse crosses the line, not when they present to the vet. Everything hung on the final vetting ..... and Chant passed with ease. We were all so proud of our horses for their performances and for dealing with the heat so well. We were also SO grateful for our crews (each other, Steve Jones and Rita Tweddle and Don - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP). It was an absolute bonus and complete surprise to find out that we had actually finished second, only 10 minutes behind the winners, the Peak Ponies. We had said before the event when we saw who was on the other teams and that there were several International standard horses competing we would do well to be 4th or 5th. 2nd was way beyond our expectations. We collected our rosettes and Aerborn rugs in the team tops very kindly donated by Heather Warburton at Estate Supplies - thanks Heather for your generosity (again!). Lindum was just fantastic as ever and Team Spirit proud, yet again, what an exciting and highly competitive event it is. Kate Williams Well done team, crew and Heather (of Estate Supplies Country Store) from the rest of us too. Updated - 31/07/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DARCI (Stolen from Bollington Cheshire)
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INTER REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Team chefs Pat Guerin and Flick Edmeston are pleased to announce that the following horse and rider combinations have been selected to represent the North West Region at Ludlow on the weekend of August 2nd and 3rd. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stolen from Bollington Cheshire
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Training Partner WantedRachel Rolfe writes: "It doesn't matter if your horse hasn't reached advanced. I usually travel to Delamere Forest or Whitegate Way and a nice canter track in south Cheshire but would go anywhere else for a change !Please email me at rachel@rolfeandwest.co.uk if you are interested." Added - 29/06/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horse Wanted for Croal Irwell Valley Ride
Michell France writes: "We are looking for a horse for Shelby to ride in the Croal Irwell Valley ride on Sunday 10th August. If you have a spare horse you would like to take to a ride then we would really appreciate the ride. If you would also like to take part I am willing to crew you and pay your entry fee’s. We really would like to support a local ride but the date doesn’t sit well in the diary for our horse."
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Tricia Hirst (Cheshire Group Member)
Tricia Hirst, an international endurance rider from Meifod, Wales (a member of the Cheshire group of Endurance GB) won the FEI 3* 160km Endurance Race at Thoresby Park, Nottingham in May. Tricia was riding her 9yr old part bred arab, Vlacq Abattarik (Tarik) and was competing against a high class international field including several riders from Bahrain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Rides and Ride Organisers wantedIf you have a route of 10 miles or more then the committee would like to hear from you.We are also looking for possible ride organisers who would be fully supported in running a pleasure or social ride. If you do have a favorite training route or even a long hack we would still like to know about it! Hopefully we can set up a system of sharing the best training routes with the intention of widening the number of rides in Cheshire and North Wales. Finally please let us know of possible venues for a ride however big or small. If you have a route or would like to organize a ride then please contact Harry Ingram at harry@endurancegbcheshire.co.uk. I would encourage people to spend a few minutes to submit your training rides on this website www.bridleways.co.uk. It’s an easy way to share unknown routes in Cheshire and North Wales. Added - 25/06/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INTER REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
We are again planning to send a North West Regional Team to the above competition where our past record has been most successful. The team will consist of 15 riders & horses & will be selected from members of the Lancashire, Derbyshire & Cheshire Groups of Endurance GB. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horse Thieves
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Desperately seeking an escort for Dukeries RideMichelle France writes “Shelby is riding in the 64k on the Sunday at Dukeries and unfortunately our normal escort has withdrawn.Shelby is only 5 weeks away from not needing an escort. Shelby is a pleasure to ride with and doesn’t winge or moan. She loves endurance. They would be willing to upgrade or downgrade just to be able to take part. I will of course crew you and pay your entry fee if you were willing to escort them. Kind regards Michelle France m: 07792 419161 e: michelle.france@martinco.com" Added - 19/05/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wirral Ride 2008 – Awards
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Use your Intelligence – Horse and Rider Day
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Cheshire BHS Member 'tacks up' to help alleviate suffering - can you help ?Karen Lewty, Development Officer, The British Horse Society - North West Region writes: "One of our Cheshire BHS Members is heading off to the Gambia shortly to volunteer for the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust for a year.Before she leaves, Anna is collecting equipment that will help alleviate the suffering of the animals out in the Gambia. The locals there often use quite barbaric pieces of tack, which cause all sorts of unnecessary injuries, so by providing them with a better option she can help to educate the people. Do you have any spare headcollars, bridles, snaffle bits, or numnahs that you would like to donate to this worthy cause? Unwanted stable toys would be extremely useful, as would any veterinary supplies or supplements. Items can be collected in the Chester area or Anna can provide details of drop of points, so please call now with your unwanted items. If you would like any more details about the work the charity do, their website is http://www.gambiahorseanddonkey.org.uk. To donate equipment, please contact Anna directly on mobile: 07783 772721 or email: picklebaba@yahoo.co.uk." Karen Lewty Development Officer The British Horse Society - North West Region 0161 980 7483 07720 404398 k.lewty@bhs.org.uk www.bhsnorthwest.org.uk Added - 21/04/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amersham Horses - Online PetitionHere's an incredible situation. Please add your name to the online petition referred to below if you want to try to make a difference.Karen Lewty, Development Officer, The British Horse Society - North West Region writes: "The British Horse Society has expressed its outrage at the decision to return 29 donkeys and Shetland ponies to the family at the centre of the recent rescue operation at Spindles Farm in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. The January rescue of more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys from the premises of Jamie Gray was one of the largest equine welfare operations ever to have take place in the United Kingdom. It saw many different horse welfare organisations working together to seize and subsequently rehabilitate the animals involved. The decision made at Oxford Magistrates Court to return 29 of the ponies and donkeys to the Gray family, and to have the remainder of the animals sold at public auction, has come as a huge blow to all of those involved with the operation and to everybody who is concerned about horse welfare. BHS Welfare Senior Executive Lee Hackett said: "The BHS is shocked and disappointed by the decision to return a number of horses to the Gray family. "Whilst we recognise that the trials of those charged in this case have yet to take place, the terrible condition of the animals at the time they were rescued should have been enough to ensure that they remain safely in the care of rescue organisations. "This will be devastating news to everybody who has been involved in the care and rehabilitation of these animals". Mr Hackett continues: "The decision to sell the remainder of the horses, ponies and donkeys at public auction is as mystifying as it is disappointing. "We are appalled that these animals will now be put in a position where their future welfare cannot be guaranteed. "We fully support the RSPCA's argument that they should be allowed to supervise the re-homing of these horses to approved homes where knowledgeable and responsible people will care for them. This is the absolute least that these animals deserve." So please could I ask you all to take a couple of minutes to add your name to the online petition which has been organised by the National Equine Welfare Council. http://www.gopetition.com/online/18321.html. Anything that you could do to publicise the petition further would also be much appreciated - friends, family etc. Please add your name - it will only take a couple of minutes and the horses involved deserve better treatment than this." Karen Lewty Development Officer The British Horse Society - North West Region 0161 980 7483 07720 404398 k.lewty@bhs.org.uk www.bhsnorthwest.org.uk Added - 14/04/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The British Horse Society launch mapping strategy
Karen Lewty, Development Officer, The British Horse Society - North West Region writes: "The British Horse Society has launched a new mapping strategy, which aims to collate all existing equestrian routes in England, Scotland and Wales. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mark Rashid clinicsMark Rashid has written some great books on working with horses in a way that "preserves those essential parts of their nature".There are clinics at Westfield Park EC, Silkstone Common, Barnsley on July 15th, 16th and 17th and at Kingswood EC Albrighton, nr Wolverhampton (A41 just south of M54 jnt 3) on July 19th, 20th and 21st. Amanda Barton explains the clinic format: "Please note a change in format to the clincs from prior years. Each clinic will be 3 days long and will start at 9am and finish at approximately 6pm. We will be working with a different clinic format this year, Mark will work with four riders in the morning and another four in the afternoon. This means that riders will still have approximately an hour with Mark but split into smaller sessions with the opportunity to practice under the supervision of Mark's full time assistant and another student instructor. Riders will have the opportunity to ride for up to four hours if they wish to but can take as many breaks within that time as they want. I have seen Mark teaching this format a few times this year and it worked really well. The riders really got a huge amount out of it and have the opportunity to ride for as long as they want. Spectators will not be left out at all during any of these sessions. Mark encourages everyone to participate and there is always a very relaxed and open atmosphere where all are welcome to ask questions. There will also be a session where all spectators and riders alike will be working together in the arena to experiment with exercises in energy flow and mental intention." Booking forms can be obtained from Amanda Barton at www.amandabarton.co.uk and spectator tickets are £35 a day if booked before March31st, otherwise £40. They may not be available on the door Added - 18/02/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Land for Rent at Lower PeoverMichelle France writes "Whilst visiting one of my office’s I came across this advertisement that I thought maybe of interest to someone.Two and a half acres of land available in this great location in Lower Peover, between Macclesfield and Knutsford. Included are three stables and a tack room with power and water supply. Lovely setting. £350 pcm. If anyone is interested please contact Lisa at our Macclesfield office and tell her Michelle the Operation Director told you about the stables. Tel: 01625 503845 Regards - Michelle Martin & Co (UK) Ltd" Added - 11/02/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE GROUP VIDEOS
The Cheshire Group videos made at the 2006 Delamere Forest and 2007 Wirral Rides are now available on the ITV LOCAL website. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Have Horse Will TravelThe email below has been received from Emma Getliffe who is a director of Have Horse Will Travel. Please note that this is a commercial concern and EnduranceGB Cheshire Group has no connection with them and cannot recommend or endorse them in any way. This has been added here as it might be of interest to members."I would like to introduce you to Have Horse Will Travel which is a specialist tour operator based in Kent. The main reason for writing to is that we have two very exciting rides on offer which might appeal to your members. One is in Patagonia where people go on a ride in amazing landscape and then have the chance to take part in one of South America’s biggest endurance competitions (riding the horse they have been on during the trip). There is the option to do 45 or 20kms ride. It takes place end of April/beginning of May 2008 and I have attached more details about it for you. The other ride is in Mongolia and the south east group have shown interest in this. Although it is not an endurance competition it is certainly a long distance ride. More details on our website www.hhwtravel.co.uk It would be wonderful if you could circulate information to your members." Click here for an itinerary in pdf format. Click here for more information in pdf format. Added - 28/01/2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE GROUP MEMBERSHIP/TROPHY REGISTRATION 2008Please send in your membership renewals/trophy registration forms to Pat Guerin as early as possible to qualify for a free key fob with CEGB and EGB logos (while stocks last).See Group Membership for forms in Word doc and pdf formats. Added - 14/12/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DISTANCE CARDS - GROUP TROPHIES 2007Please take note of the following:Distance cards should be submitted to Pennie Drummond by 31st December 2007. Please complete the following before forwarding: Don’t forget you lucky people who won trophies last year to ensure that they are engraved and clean. Please contact Pennie to arrange for their safe return to her. Added - 14/12/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HIGHWAY CODE - 2007 EditionDid you know the latest edition of the Highway Code is available online?Click here to see it. Click here to see the part that has specific relevance to horses on the road. Please consider taking the time to read at least this part if you haven't yet bought and digested a paper copy. At least you'll know what other road users are expecting of you. I think you owe it to yourself, all ride organisers and to your horse! Stay safe - Chris Taylor Added - 15/11/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NATIONAL AGM & DINNER - 1st December 2007Pat Guerin is going to the AGM and Dinner and wonders if there are any other Cheshire members (or, maybe, friends of the Cheshire Group) who would like to help make up a Cheshire table.Pat needs to know by the 14th (this coming Wednesday) so if you are interested please let her know by then. Contact Pat on - 01477 534194 Email: pat.guerin@talk21.com. Added - 11/11/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Wales AHS Auction Evening
Everything from rugs and feed to art and books with wellies and wormers in between! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HORSE PASTURE MANAGEMENT
This event organised by the Cheshire Farming and Wildlife Group was originally scheduled to take place on 18th September but was postponed due the the renewed Foot & Mouth outbreak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sherwood Forest Ride CANCELLEDThe venue for the Sherwood Forest Ride is a working sheep farm and because of the renewed Foot and Mouth Disease situation the decision has been taken to cancel the ride this year.Disappointing for both the organisers and entrants but inevitable in the circumstances. Added - 14/09/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WARNING! - HORSE THIEVES IN OUR AREA
Kate Williams has this disturbing information - TAKE CARE:- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHESHIRE AUTUMN FROLIC - 22nd & 23rd September
Pat Guerin reports that entries continue to arrive for both days and she is keen to have sufficient numbers of helpers to meet the number of entrants to ensure the event runs smoothly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EQUESTRIAN ACCESS
A new petition has been created to help us get more access and rights on way and we need to get as many riders to sign up as possible. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheshire Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
On Tuesday 18th September the Cheshire Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group are holding an event on Horse Pasture Management at Kelsall Hill Equestrian Centre from 5:30pm to 9:30pm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RIDING ON THE ROADS AND CYCLE TRACKS
If you signed the e-petition on this subject referred to in the News item added on 10/07/2007 below then you will have received a reply from the Government. For those who didn't sign the petition the Government's reply reads as follows:- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SaddleUp Cheshire
6th September – Equine Behaviour Workshop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Endurance GB (European Championship) Supporters Polo ShirtsPolo shirts have been produced to support EGB riders at this year's European Championships in Portugal. The polo shirts will have an Endurance GB logo on the front with the text “European Championships Portugal 2007 Official Supporter” underneath.Click here for an order form in Word Doc format. Added - 01/08/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GOOSTREY RIDE - CANCELLEDClaire Shorthose reports:-"Unfortunately, due to the recent weather we have had to make the reluctant decision to cancel the ride. The field at the venue has finally been cut, but the gateway has been so severely poached by agricultural machinery that we could not possibly get our vehicles in and out. We have ridden the route today, and although the tracks are all passable with care, many of the best parts are very wet indeed." This is disappointing news not only for all those who had entered but also Claire and Andy who have put in many hours working on the event on everyone's behalf. Thank you Claire and Andy we hope you will try again next year when we know the members will have a great ride. Added - 27/07/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Talk and Demonstration
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INTER-REGIONAL CHALLENGE
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INTER GROUP CHALLENGE
This will now be held on the first day of the Cheshire Autumn Frolic at the
Delamere Forest venue on Saturday September 22nd.Teams will consist of 3 riders in each class made up of 2 Adults plus 1 Junior/Young Rider. There are 4 classes of 40 km Open , 40 km Novice, 32 km Open & 32 km Novice so each team will have a maximum of 12 riders. If you wish to be considered for a team please send your details as below:- 1) the Cheshire Team to Pat Guerin; 2) the Derbyshire Team to Flick Edmeston; 3) the Lancashire Team to Sue Taylor-Green. Added - 30/06/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GOOSTREY RIDE - 5th August 2007
Claire Shorthose reports that plans are all going well and entries are coming in steadily. She is just hoping for some dry weather (aren't we all). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RIDING ON THE ROADS AND CYCLE TRACKS
The BHS is asking for last-minute amendments to the new Highway Code, which could be in force in August. The BHS suggested amendments to the new Highway Code to the Secretary of State back in February 2006. But according to BHS director of access, safety and welfare Mark Weston, some have apparently been ignored.The Code will forbid riding two horses abreast on narrow and busy roads and when riding around bends. It will also exclude horses from all cycle tracks. There can be many valid reasons for riding two abreast: groups of riders, nervous horses, novice riders, and defensive riding on winding country lanes where there is insufficient room for a car to pass a single horse safely. There are many cycle tracks which have been specifically designed for use by horse riders, and the loss of these would be very serious for those who rely on them. Breaches of the Highway Code could potentially be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts in order to establish liability in an accident. To support this effort please consider signing up to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Horseriding/. Added - 10/07/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INTER-REGIONAL CHALLENGE
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LINDUM SPIRIT RELAY
Rita Tweddle and Gaynor Jones are thinking of entering the Lindum Spirit Relay (which requires a team of four riders each completing 40km). They are, therefore, looking for at least another two interested people.
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PEAK DISTRICT RIDE CANCELLED
We have just received this message from Sue Cunningham:-"Unfortunately Peak District has had to be cancelled as the venue is too wet. The route was OK, but the land owner felt the venue would suffer too much damage, especially given tomorrow's forecast. Flick hasn't banked any of the cheques yet, so don't worry about refunds. Please pass this on to anyone you know who planned to attend. Sorry about the short notice, Sue Cunningham" Sorry to those who had planned to enjoy this ride. Added - 29/06/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ASHBROOK EQUINE HOSPITAL
Ashbrook Equine Hospital have generously agreed to sponsor the Cheshire Autumn Frolic. This is the two day event at Delamere and Kelsall Hill on the 22nd and 23rd September which is a new venture for the Group. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SaddleUpCheshire and Rural Enterprise
The Group enjoyed a very successful and satisfying day with our stand at Tatton Park on Monday 21st May 2007.
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SaddleUpCheshire and Rural Enterprise
On the back of booming interest in horse riding, www.saddleupcheshire.co.uk in conjunction with the Rural Enterprise Programme is organising Cheshire’s first equine trade fair. The event, supported by Equitrader is expected to attract thousands of horse lovers from the region, is to be held in the Tenants’ Hall at Tatton Park in Knutsford from 1.00pm to 8.00pm on 21st May 2007.
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4 FOR THE NORTH - Northumberland & Tyneside Group
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INTER-GROUP COMPETITION“ YOUR GROUP NEEDS YOU ”This year the Inter-Group Competition will again be held at the Peak District Ride which is on Saturday 30th June & will include CR classes of 65, 50, 40 & 32 km. The 50, 40 & 32 km distances all have a Novice class as well as the Open thus making a total of seven classes for the competition. We are allowed to have 3 riders in each, one of whom should be a Junior or Young Rider. That makes 21 riders for a FULL TEAM & that is what we are aiming for! You will be riding for Cheshire against the rest of the North West Groups plus West Yorkshire & it will give you an opportunity to have a taste of team competition as well as a lot of fun. I would like all those wishing to be selected for the Inter Regional Team at Ludlow to enter this event but not necessarily at the same distance. If you wish to be considered for either or both events please send me details of you & your horse plus copies of vet sheets for the last twelve months where possible & state your preferred distance. Pat Guerin Added - 29/04/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INTER-REGIONAL CHALLENGETAKE UP THE CHALLENGE!This year’s inter-regional challenge is taking place at Ludlow on Saturday 14 July and YOU could be part of the North West team. We need riders from Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and North Wales to make up a winning team. The North West has held the Inter-Regional trophy twice in the past and came third last year, only missing second place by a couple of points so we are determined that it will come home with us again in 2007. We know we have a lot of talented horses and riders in the area and this is a fantastic chance for you to experience the fun and excitement of being part of a team effort. We think there will be a full range of classes on offer from 32km CR to 100km ER so there is a chance for everyone to compete. If you are interested, all you have to do is ring Pat Guerin (Cheshire and North Wales) on 01477 534194, Flick Edmeston (Derbyshire, Staffs) on 01335 390631 or Sue Taylor Green (Lancs) on 01772 436043. Anyone who wants to take part should send a copy of their mastercard and 2007 vet sheets to Pat Guerin by the end of June and should have successfully completed a CR in June, preferably at the Peak District on 30 June. We will provide team shirts and possibly cooler rugs for all who take part, so if you know a supplier who is willing to provide a set of rugs at a reasonable price (preferably free), we would love to hear from you. Back-up will be available for those of you who haven’t got a crew as well as help and advice. Up to date team information, including long-lists and short lists will be posted on the Cheshire EGB website [on this page]. Flick Edmeston Added - 29/04/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kate Williams - IT'S A BOYFriends will be interested to know that Kate Williams gave birth to a baby boy yesterday (24th April).A brother for her twins. Alex arrived by c-section and weighed in at 8lbs 11oz. Congratulations to Kate and Dicky Added - 25/04/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THANKS to HELPERS - Wirral RideA huge thank you to all our helpers at the ride on Sunday, it was greatly appreciated by all. We have been swamped with thank you’s from all who competed saying just how well the day ran, this is thanks to all involved, without the help and support to the ride from you all it would not have been such a success.I am sure some of you can be spotted in Chris’s rogues gallery which he will be posting on the site shortly!!! Despite the wet weather everyone was so cheerful and helpful, so thanks again, Terry and Amanda Added - 24/04/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 FOR THE NORTH - Northumberland & Tyneside Group
Left click here to see a Press Release containing the results of the first qualifying event at the Durham Valleys Ride on the 25th March 2007
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Wirral Ride, April 22nd - Important NoticeAs part of our organisation for the Wirral Ride we have just discovered that there has been an outbreak of Strangles on the Wirral, many yards have imposed quarantine procedures on their yards to minimise cross infection.As a result of this we have sought advice from Leahurst Veterinary Hospital regarding the risk to horses competing at our ride. We have been advised that there has been a higher than normal incidence of Strangles within the Wirral area in the last six months, however, the disease is not airborne and is only transmitted through direct contact. The vet advised that the risk to horses competing is virtually non-existent. We apologise for the lateness of this information, however, as we do not reside or keep our horses on the Wirral we were unaware of this situation. This information is being provided so that competitors can make an informed choice as to whether they still wish to compete, if people choose not to compete then please can we request that you contact us as soon as you receive this information as the ride does have a waiting list for people to utilise any cancelled entries. Many thanks, Terry and Amanda Contact Terry or Amanda after 8.30pm on 01352750847 or any other time on 07776182521 or e-mail us at terrymadden54@yahoo.co.uk. Added - 14/04/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wirral Ride, April 22nd - Helpers Required !!Organisation is well under way and the entries are coming in thick and fast for our group's first competitive ride of the season.Please can we urge members if they are not competing at this ride and have free time on the day to contact us and support the ride by helping. We are aware it is a popular ride with members and most people like to take part in this ride, however, our rides would not take place if we could not safely run them without the support of helpers. If you can assist we would be most grateful, refreshments and lunch will be provided from one of the best cafes on the Wirral!! Contact Terry or Amanda after 8.30pm on 01352750847 or any other time on 07776182521 or e-mail us at terrymadden54@yahoo.co.uk. Added - 01/03/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 FOR THE NORTH - Northumberland & Tyneside GroupThe Northumberland & Tyneside Group (N&T) of Endurance GB (EGB) are once again administering the unique “4 for the NORTH” competition. This particular event adds a competitive element to graded rides and it is the third year that this event has been run in the latest format.The COTTEE class is suitable for novice and experienced horses / riders whereas the BEDMAX class will give any experienced Endurance Ride combination a good challenge with speeds over 16 km/h and heart rates as low as 36 beats/min recorded. The N&T Group and their sponsors are well aware that the event is growing in stature and in recognition of this have introduced the following changes. BEDMAX class: 1st Place A quality embroidered cooler rug identifying the horse’s success for years to come. The beautiful engraved trophy for a year. Rosette 2nd Place An embroidered horse related prize. Rosette 3rd Place A horse related prize Rosette COTTEE class: 1st Place A £20 cash prize. An engraved trophy for a year. Rosette. 2nd Place Rosette 3rd Place Rosette Most of the endurance events across Durham, Northumberland, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and the Borders are included as eligible rides, but only the best 4 results count to the end of season trophies. For more details see the Press Release here. For an application form click here. Added - 20/02/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
KELSALL HILL (formerly Somerford Park) RIDEStolen from the latest Committee Minutes.Due to a shortage of free dates earlier in the season the Committee decided to run this as a two day ride combined with Delamere which is close by. Kelsall Hill will be run as Day 2. There are facilities available for camping, corralling & stabling at the venue. It will be called the Cheshire Autumn Frolic. We hope to give prizes to high achievers in various categories over the two days. More details will be published as they become available. Added - 05/02/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OFFICIAL SURVEY RE THE USE OF VOLUNTEERSThe sport of endurance riding relies heavily on volunteers to survive. Jill Loader (from BEF) has forwarded the message below to EGB. Please could you spare a minute or two to ensure that Equestrian Sport has a voice? Please feel free to forward it to anyone who might be interested."The Commission for the Future of Volunteering, an independent inquiry which is an initiative of the England Volunteering Development Council, is developing a long-term vision for volunteering. It has challenged sport to make sure that its voice, as the largest involver of volunteers in the country (26% of all volunteers are involved in sporting activities), is heard. The Commission has established three themes and is seeking comments/evidence on each of these prior to publishing its final report in October 2007. To enable this to happen, the Commission has extended its deadline to 25th May 2007. In order to ensure that equestrian has a voice, I would like to encourage as many people as possible to become involved in this survey and offer their views. Participants are not obliged to answer all the questions, being encouraged to 'pick and mix' and answer only those questions relevant to themselves or their organisation. Please note that this inquiry is open to anyone who has an opinion on volunteering, whether they have ever volunteered or not! Please therefore feel free to circulate this email as widely as possible. In order to participate, visit the website: http://www.volcomm.org.uk/. Many thanks Jill Loader Consultant National Volunteer Co-ordinator British Equestrian Federation" Added - 03/02/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SOMERFORD PARK RIDEI am very sorry to report that this ride will not be run any more. As most of you know we have to pay for each horse to go round the farm ride & last year we made a small loss. This year the cost has increased still further making it too risky for us to go ahead. Without the farm ride the route would not be viable as there are so few bridleways in the area and so regrettably we have decided to give up the ride.We are currently looking to run a ride from Kelsall Hill using the farm ride there but as yet no date has been agreed. Our date in May was already booked so we are now looking at June or July and will let you know as soon as something is arranged. I have enjoyed running Somerford and have greatly appreciated all the help and support I have received. I trust I can rely on you all at Kelsall in the future! Pat Guerin - Ride Organiser Update: The dates in June and July when the venue is available are not too convenient so dates in September and October are also being considered. Added - 07/01/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
STARTER FOR '7 - 4th February 2007
Cheshire Group have arranged a special day for our members at Ashbrook Equine Hospital to get their 2007 season off to a flying start. The aim of the day is to combine a 16 km training ride with a pre-season ‘MOT’ for horses and riders at all levels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AWARDS DINNER and CONFERENCE - November 25th
Those of you who are EGB members will have had the information regarding this event. This year the AGM is to be held at Hinkley Island Hotel, Hinkley, Leicestershire. Whilst it is distance away for us as Cheshire members it is well worth attending and contributing to some very interesting debate and having the opportuntity to have your say around the future shaping of EGB.There are some members who will be travelling down to the event, if people are interested in attending why not pair and share travel arrangements? I would be happy to assist in co-ordinating this for people if they contact me, Terry Madden, terrymadden54@yahoo.co.uk or 01352750847 (after 7.30pm) Added - 15/11/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WIN A WEEK'S HOLIDAY IN FRANCE!
The Golden Horseshoe organisation is once again selling raffle tickets at the EGB AGM to win a holiday in a French gite, courtesy of Ian & Cath Wilson.
The gite, which sleeps two adults & two children comfortably, is situated north of Toulouse, close to the village of Cazes Mondenard, with its own private driveway, and use of Ian and Cath's private swimming pool. There will be a full display of the facilities at the AGM. Don't forget to bring your wallets! Tickets are £5 each, and the draw will take place at the awards dinner. Anyone who is unable to come to the AGM can reserve their tickets by contacting Barbara Wigley at: The Old Forge, Luckwell Bridge, Wheddon Cross. Somerset. TA24 7EG Tel. 01643 841183 e mail - ian.wigley@btinternet.com Added - 23/10/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EGB Young Riders - Supporters Merchandise
The EGB Young riders team (of Helen Perry, Suzanne Perry, Rachael Rogerson and Abigail Lockett) are heading off to Zabreh in the Czech Republic to compete in the Young Riders CEIJY-CH4*120km on 15/17 September 2006.
Merchandise has been made available to provide some financial support for the team. Please buy something to help them on their way. Please click here for an order form showing what is available in Word.doc format. Please click here for the same order form in PDF format. Added - 1/9/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MALPAS Social Ride - Update
Steph (the organiser) tells us the route is 13 miles with 8 miles of off-road riding.
Entries will be acccepted up to Monday 4th September; thereafter at the organiser's discretion. Don't miss out - make sure you get your entry in before the deadline. Please make sure the postage is correct for the size of the application and the return envelopes !! Go to Pleasure Rides for more details of the ride. Added - 29/8/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Byways and Bridleways Trust - Journey for Access 2006
Are you concerned about the lack of access horseriders have to the countryside ?
Are you concerned that all ancient bridleways that are not correctly recorded will be extinguished in 20 years time ? It may seem a long time but, as you know, time does fly. If your answer to either question was "Yes" then an article about this and some action being taken may be of interest you. Left click here to read the article. Support them if you can. Added - 1/8/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stranger On The Shore
(Ahh, that title takes me back to ... well if you don't know you're just too young !!!)
We have received the following letter and wondered if anyone can help. We have not met the writer but this appears to be a very genuine request. Please help if you can and make her feel welcome in our area. Dear Muriel, I very recently moved to Liverpool. I wonder if there are stables not too far from Liverpool where there are people who do endurance and would like a mad Italian joining them. I have been doing a few 30 Km regularity competitions in Italy and I really enjoyed them. Now I could be doing 60km. Unfortunately I do not have a horse here in the UK and I wonder if there is anybody who would be willing to partially share one. The endurance team I belong to in Italy is called Lancillotto and the web site is http://www.lancillotto.biz. many thanks Paola Dr Paola Albertazzi App 119 15 Hatton Garden L3 2HA Mobile 07759651963 e mail: albertazzi@doctors.org.uk See 2005 section of photographs page. Added - 24/7/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Young Riders Recognised
Two of Cheshire EGB's young riders have been invited to attend the Young Riders Trainng Camp this summer.
Well done Harry Ingram and Josie Ratter. Added - 20/7/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inter-Regional Championships
The North West Region Team (organised by Rachel Atkinson assisted by Flick Edmeston and Pat Guerin) also had successful day coming third in the Inter-Regional Championships. They actually finished equal second on points but just lost out on final race ride heart rates.
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Inter-Group Challenge
The Cheshire EGB Team (organised by Pat Guerin) ran out WINNERS of the Inter-Group Challenge at the Peak District ride. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New EGB Polo Shirts
Rachael Claridge has organised the sale of polo shirts to support the EGB
team at Aachen. They cost £12 each plus £3 postage and have the EGB logo on
the front with the text "World Equestrian Games Aachen 2006 Official
Supporter" underneath.
Profit from the sale of these polo shirts will go towards the British Senior Team expenses for the 2006 World Equestrian Games. Please buy one (or more!) to help our team. Left click here for a Word .doc Order Form. Left click here for a PDF format Order Form. Added - 9/7/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Committee Changes
Following the resignation of John Illingworth (reported here earlier) two additional members have been co-opted onto the Committee.
They are Josie Ratter and Amanda Jones. Josie is a young rider who competes regularly in endurance rides and Amanda is co-organiser of the Wirral Ride. We hope they will both enjoy working for the benefit of local endurance riders. Their contact details are shown on the Committee Members page - 29/6/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BRIDLEWAYS
The message below has been forwarded to us. It is reproduced in it's entirety.Bridleways are very important to our events and, so, you may wish to take some action. BRIDLEWAYS Some MPs have tabled Early Day Motion number 2332. This reads, "That this House recognises the importance of bridleways for horseriders to exercise in safety and enjoy the countryside; notes that many bridleways are in poor condition or are abused by people using motorised vehicles; and calls on the Government actively to promote the use of bridleways, to ensure that those who use bridleways inappropriately are fined, to look to extend the number of bridleways across the country and to ensure that existing bridleways are kept open and are well maintained for horseriders." Early Day Motions (EDMs) are often used to find out how much support different policy choices might attract, and to see whether proposed legislation might get through the Commons. This could be such a flyer. If you would like to see the EDM supported, you need to write to your MP giving the number of the EDM, and reasons why you think it needs support. It is always best to give your own personal experience relating to one or more of the aims of the EDM rather than to use a form letter. You may also wish to ask your MP to write back saying whether he supports the EDM or not. You can find out who your MP is here: http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/l/ You can see whether your MP has already supported the EDM here: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=30884&SESSION=875 Posted - 25/6/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inter-Regional Championships, Ludlow July 14th-16th
As advertised in the last edition of the group's newsletter please can expressions of interest for selection to represent the North West be made to Pat Guerin as soon as possible. It is disappointing that we have received very few expressions of interest to date.We are fielding a team compiled from members from Cheshire, Derbyshire & Lancashire, classes range from 40km Novice to 100km ER, see Ludlow schedule for further details. The final selection will be made in the next couple of weeks so if you are interested please contact Pat as soon as possible. I would like to urge all group members to give this opportunity consideration as it is an excellent experience that riders at all levels would greatly benefit from and is lots of fun! Many Thanks, Terry Madden Pat Guerin's contact details are shown on the Committee Members page - 16/6/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Somerford Park ResultsThe results of our Somerford Park Ride have been added to the site and the Wirral Results have been updated to agree with the official results as published on the EGB site.See Ride Results - 12/6/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delamere Ride CANCELLEDWe're sorry to report that the Delamere Forest Ride on 3rd June has been cancelled due to a lack of entries. This is very disappointing for both organisers and entrants.It is now intended to run a Pleasure Ride at this venue later in the year - 28/5/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Somerford Park Prize WinnersThe four winners of the £20 vouchers kindly provided by Hope Valley Saddlery were :-Class 1 - Charlotte Curtis Class 2 - Garry Urquhart Class 3 - Kathleen McGhee Class 4 - Jodie Watts Thanks to Hope Valley Saddlery for their support. Thanks also to Baileys Horse Feeds who donated feed samples to all taking part. Further results will be added to the site when they are available - 16/5/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Public Relations OfficerJohn Illingworth has asked to be relieved from his role of Press Liaison / Public Relations Officer due to insufficient time. We'd like to thank John for all his work in the past.Thankfully, Terry Madden has agreed to take over these duties for us. Terry's contact details are shown on the Committee Members page - 11/5/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Helpers wanted for the Delamere RideLiz Finney is seeking helpers for the Delamere Forest Ride on 3rd June.Don't forget that if you want to qualify for Group trophies you must have helped on at least one ride - could you help at this one ? Liz's contact details are shown on the Committee Members page - 11/5/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Goostrey Pleasure RideThe date for this ride has now been set for 6th August 2006 - 16/4/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wirral Ride - Helpers WantedAmanda and Terry are looking for helpers for the Wirral Ride on 23rd April 2006. If you want to qualify for Group trophies you must have helped on at least one ride - could you help at this one ? Amanda and Terry will be extremely appreciative and welcoming to any volunteers and will do their best to find a job you are comfortable with.Please give them a ring on 07766134957 (daytime) or 01352750847 (evenings) - 10/4/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wirral Ride FullThe Wirral Ride is now full and no further entries can be accepted. Sorry if you are too late but Wirral Country Park have been very specific on parking arrangements and Health & Safety issues.Fingers crossed for some good weather and an enjoyable ride for everyone - 10/4/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URGENT - accommodation/stabling required for Wirral RideAmanda and Terry have had entries from riders who live some distance away and they would need accommodation and/or stabling. One person wants to come from Cambridge and another from Lambeth in south London. The lady from Lambeth is staying with a friend in Liverpool so doesn't want the horse too far away and the other person needs accommodation for herself and the horse. Terry has said he will get back to them on Sunday 9/4/2006 as, if he can't help, they could enter another ride closer to home.Can you help with stabling near Liverpool or stabling and/or accommodation near the Wirral venue ? If you think you can help please contact Amanda or Terry on 01352750847 or 07766134957 as soon as possible - 7/4/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tegg's Nose Pleasure RideUnfortunately the re-arranged date for this ride was also plagued with bad weather so the ride had to be cancelled again. Very disappointing for riders and organisers alike.It looks like a fresh attempt will be made to hold a ride at this venue later in the year. We'll let you know as soon as we hear anything. - 25/3/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Somerford Park Ridesponsored by
HOPE VALLEY SADDLERY have generously agreed to sponsor the Somerford Park Ride on 14th May 2006. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tegg's Nose Pleasure Ride re-arranged for Saturday 18th March 2006Due to adverse weather conditions (snow and ice) the Tegg's Nose PR had to be postponed. The re-arranged date is 18th March 2006.At the time of writing there are still a few places available so entries are still being taken. See Pleasure Rides for details. - 7/3/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Training Day CANCELLEDWe regret to report that the Training Day has been cancelled due to insufficient numbers. Apologies to anyone who had hoped to attend. - 16/2/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delamere LatestAn update on the "Delamere Threat" below.Vale Royal Council have approved the Planning Application made by the Forestry Commission. The Forestry Commission are reported to have said they will make changes to the paths to minimise the potential problem for horses. We don't know how successful this might be but hope for the best. We are optimistic that it will not spoil our Delamere Forest Ride. The "Go Ape" facility will be completed during March so we shall soon know if a problem exists. - 16/2/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bridleways QuizTeams from the Cheshire Group of Endurance GB came second and third in yesterday's Quiz at The Golden Pheasant in Plumley. Well done team members (Josie, Jane, Geoff, Pat, Liz, Peter, Muriel & Chris) and other Group members who were present in various teams. - 16/2/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delamere ThreatThe Forestry Commission have applied for planning permission to Vale Royal Council to erect a cabin and shelter as part of a new "Go Ape" facility. It is very close to the new mere and therefore will affect anyone parking in the Whitemere (Christmas Tree) car park (where our rides start from) and heading across the road and into the main part of the forest. For more details see Delamere Threat - 12/1/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tegg's Nose Date confirmedBoth the Country Park and the Forestry Manager have confirmed the date for Saturday 4 March 2006. The closing date for entries is 24 February 2006 but don't leave it too late - see Pleasure Rides - 10/1/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bredbury Social RideDetails of this popular local ride have been added - see Pleasure Rides - 10/1/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Endurance Ride ScheduleThe Endurance Rides Schedule was published on the EGB site on 4/1/2006. Dates of all the local (Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, West Riding and North Wales and Borders Groups) rides were added to our site on 5/1/2006. Please note that the Wirral Ride is on 23 April 2006 not the 26th as reported earlier - see Endurance Rides - 10/1/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 ClubThe names of recent winners have been published monthly. You can still join in - see 100 Club - 10/1/2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bridleways Quiz NightThe annual quiz night will take place on 15th February 2006 - see Social Events - 20/12/2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EGB Announces New InsurersThe November/December 2005 edition of the members magazine reveals "that as of 1st December 2005 the association and it's members will be receiving the benefit of insurance cover from THB British Equestrian (formerly BEIB)." They already look after the insurance needs of the British Equestrian Federation, British Show Jumping Association, British Dressage, British Horse Driving Trials Association and are corporate brokers to The Pony Club - 03/11/2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Merchandise for EGB Young RidersEndurance GB's Young Riders are heading off to their World Endurance Championships in Bahrain this December. Merchandise is now available to raise funds to support their trip. Use the following link to see what's on offer - EGBYR Merchandise - 25/10/2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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