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Dear Supporter You may have seen the recent news stories concerning an outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV 1) in Gloucestershire. Two horses have been shown to have the neurological form of the disease and one the respiratory form. It appears that others are also showing signs but have yet to be definitively diagnosed. Although not a legally notifiable condition, EHV 1 is contagious and does have the potential to be quite a serious disease. Indeed, the neurological form can lead to paralysis. In most cases, EHV 1 is spread via respiratory transmission so wherever horses are brought together from different yards there is the possibility for the disease to spread if one of the horses present is affected. For this reason the Heythrop have very responsibly suspended hunting for a week. It is important to be aware that the risk of your horse contracting EHV 1 is very small and

Regrettably we have had to cancel again our 6th Anniversary show due to snow fall descending on us from 7.00am today, and forecast to remain for most of this morning.  We had to cancel our original Anniversary competition, due to snow, back in January and here we are now in Spring and snow is with us again! We are rescheduling this event for the 3rd time for SUNDAY 2nd JUNE, when hopefully the sun will be with us!! Please put this date in your diaries and we will prepare and issue a schedule for this event shortly. For those who wish to brave the weather this morning we are offering clear round jumping from 10.00am until 12.00 Noon, as we have a full course of jumps laid out. The cost is £3.50 / round. Riders have been booking the venue for the use of the course of jumps and we

We hope everyone enjoyed this show and congratulations to all those who were placed. Our next “Hartpury Qualifier’ with prize money will be held on Sunday 21st April, so hopefully we will see you all and others at this next competition. Unaffiliated show jumping ‘Hartpury Qualifier’ results held 17.03.13 Richard will shortly put his photo’s from the event on his web site so anyone interested in viewing and possibly purchasing some photo’s from him can just click on the link below: http://www.erp-imaging.co.uk/gallery.aspx

We hope everyone enjoyed this competition which all went well and to time and it was nice to meet new competitors at our venue, and receive some nice feedback regarding our venue and how well organised the event was with dressage 2 music included, with normal classes. We provide a copy of the results below which we sent to British Dressage for reference, but ask if competitors could refer to the official BD web site for their results and their allocated points. Our next Affiliated show will be held on Saturday  13th April  where we are running tests from Novice to Medium levels. For assistance we provide a copy of the schedule for this competition. Affiliated Dressage Competition held 9.03.13 including D2M 2013.04.13 Affiliated dressage schedule

We hope everyone enjoyed this show and congratulations to all those placed. Richard has now put his photo’s from the event on his web site so anyone interested in viewing and possibly purchasing some photo’s from him can just click on the link below: http://www.erp-imaging.co.uk/gallery.aspx The current Points gained by competitors for both Led and Unled Sections are provided below and we look forward to seeing you all and others at our next children’s show being the ‘Late Easter Egg Delivery’ jumping fun day to be held on Sunday 7th April 2013. The Mad March Hare Childrens SJ Results held 3.03.13 Childrens show jumping points for March 2013 – LED Childrens show jumping points for March 2013 – UNLED

We hope all the competitors who attended this evening competition enjoyed the event and we provide the results below. Our next evening show jumping competition will be held on Friday 5th April. Unaffiliated Evening Show Jumping Results held 1.03.13

We hope everyone enjoyed this competition which went well and to time. We congratulate all the winners of the classes who won a trophy and it was nice to meet new competitors to our venue. Our next Unaffiliated competition will be our evening dressage event held on Tuesday 26th March and then on Sunday 31st March for our next Hartpury College Qualifier. Unaffiliated Dressage Competition inc Anniversary held 23.02.2013

We hope everyone enjoyed this competition, which was well supported and we wish to congratulate in particular Ella-May Redmond, Jaymee Savill, Rosie Williams, Harriet Richards and Georgie Elliott who all won their classes, with some qualifying to enter Hartpury College Championships in May. We provide the results below and hope to see you all and others at our next  competition to be held on Sunday 17th March. We also provide a link to our photographers web site, should you be interested in viewing and hopefully purchasing some pictures. Show Jumping Results ‘Hartpury Qua’ held 17.02.13-1 http://www.erp-imaging.co.uk/gallery.aspx

We are pleased to advise all you dog lovers that GT Agility have hired our venue for two canine competitions to be held on Sunday 13th October and Sunday 8th December 2013. For further details please click on the below link: http://www.ukagility.com/Shows.aspx If there are any dog agility clubs who would be interested in taking out a long term evening booking with us for a week day evening, then please call Gary on 07887 400239, who can provide further details. 

We hope everyone enjoyed this evening competition which all went well and to time. Though it was a cold evening, at least you could all thaw out in our nice warm building and it was nice to see a lot of support to competitors from their families and friends. Particular congratulations go to Megan Hill on Bella who won Class 1 with an excellent score of 66.8% and then Lydia Heywood on Bonmahon JD with an impressive 68.5% who won Class 2. The results are provided below and we look forward to seeing you all and others at our next unaffiliated evening dressage competition to be held on Tuesday 26th March. Unaffiliated Evening Dressage Results held 12.02.13pdf