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Hi Everyone After what has been a busy Winter and Spring series of competitions for us we wish to thank you all for all your support and appreciation on all the favourable comments we receive concerning the quality of our venue and organisation of competitions. We have now just returned from a short break and though Jill has been very ill lately we still intend running our popular competitions though the quantity will be reduced during the next few months. For those who have or intend to form a dressage team and have a go at the British Dressage Team Quest competitions for Novice riders, we will be running our next competition on Saturday 31st May. We provide below a copy of our Programmes for May and June and hope to see you all at a future competition. We are still holding our hire rates for this month, from which the rates

An opportunity has arose where we are looking to employ a Part time kitchen cook and who is able to also manage our kitchen. The work involves varying hours (minimum 3 hours) on weekend day’s when we are running competitions and one Wednesday evening in each month. The employment would commence from Wednesday 11th June until approx 17th September 2014 and we operate under PAYE. We offer competitive hourly rates and good working conditions. Full training will be offered to the successful applicant who must be responsible, honest, good with customers and willing to maintain good hygiene standards in our 5 star rated kitchen. For further details please contact Gary on 07887 400239.        

  Please be aware that due to Jill currently being very ill, we have not been able to produce a schedule for our evening dressage competition to be held on Wednesday 14th May.  However, we hope to correct this situation shortly but we provide details below for competitors assistance. You can simply enter by clicking on the below ‘Online Entry’ tab and calling us to pay by card or go to our download tab and print off a dressage entry form and send it to us with a cheque by Saturday 10th May.   Our evening competition includes the following tests and is likely to start from approx 6.00 pm (subject to times being confirmed):     Class 1: Walk & Trot Intro A/B – Pic & Mix   Class 2: Prelim 7 / 13 – Pic & Mix   Class 3: Novice 24 / 34 – Pic & Mix

Please could team Captains call for their team times between 3pm and 5 pm (tel 07771 346512) on Thursday 26th March. We look forward to seeing you all on the day.

Please could everyone be aware of an error we have made on our paper copies on our April Programme. Our next Unaffiliated Show Jumping Competition which will be a Hartpury College Qualifier  including prize money will be held on Sunday 20th April and NOT Saturday 19th April as printed on the circulated programmes. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. We look forward to seeing you all on the correct day!!  

Just to advise competitors who intend to enter our Team Quest Competition on Sunday 30th March that the closing date for entering this competition is Thursday 20th March. We look forward to seeing the teams for this competition with their colour matching team colours!!  

We are pleased to now confirm that the tests we will be running for our first BD ‘Team Quest’ competition on the 30th March are now provided along with the British Dressage ‘Registration Form’ and ‘Entry Form’ for entering Team Quest Competitions. British Dressage have announced the launch of their new ‘Team Quest’ competitions which are aimed at novice riders who are riding at Intro, Prelim and Novice competition tests in a fun and relaxed environment.  Teams of three or four riders (friends, colleagues etc.) will ride as individuals across the three test levels (any combination) and the best three scores count towards an overall total; highest percentage wins the day.  There will be three catagories for teams; 16 yrs and under, 25 years and under and mixed riders of any age. The rules will be more relaxed and teams can have their own colours and names as required. We

Regrettably due to the extremely windy and wet conditions today, and in the interest of competitors safety, we have decided to cancel our unaffiliated dressage competition this evening. Though our venue is fully operational and our flood defenses are working correctly we are mindful of competitors travelling to us and strong wind and rain is forecast until after 7.00 pm tonight. For all the competitors who have entered the competition tonight we offer the following options regarding your entry fees:   .1 All entries paid by cheque will simply be ripped up after Monday 17th February unless we hear from you requesting us to transfer your entry to another forthcoming dressage competition. Our next unaffiliated dressage competitions will be held on Saturday 22nd February (Hartpury College Qualifier) and 19th March for evening dressage (Cricklands Qualifier). .2 All cash entries will be held pending instruction from the competitor .3 Entries made

Please use the following  link for the promotion of this event: http://toltinharmonyuk.wordpress.com/ In the UK there are less than 1000 Icelandic Horses, so their owners form quite a close community. They are a versatile, hardy breed of riding horse with the added bonus of extra gaits. Most horses walk, trot, canter/gallop. Icelandic’s can also Tolt (a smooth gait that can be done between walk and canter pace) and some can do flying pace as well! This event is new to the Icelandic community and it is essentially dressage for Icelandics with the participants being scored on how harmoniously they ride (much like in BD or as per the 7 scales of training). The main difference is that the tests are performed in Tolt which is unique to Icelandics (so sadly to take part you need to ride one)! The organiser  welcomes spectators who wish to find out more about these wonderful

Depression Alliance ‘Horses helping people’ Self Help Group to be run in February. To ensure privacy/ confidentiality only those affected by Depression are invited to these groups. For further details contact Zeb on 07923 934457 or info@hhpda.co.uk