Home Farm Equestrian Centre

  We hope everyone who attending our evening show enjoyed themselves and we provide the results and a photo of a competitor taken with their consent.                 Class 1 2’3 – 2’6 Place Rider Horse 1st Morgan Henry Jiggy 2nd Katherine Merrett Rowen   Class 2 2’6 – 2’9 Place Rider Horse 1st Katherine Merrett Rowen 2nd Morgan Henry Jiggy 3rd Patrick Whittle MJ   Class 3 2’9 – 3’0 Place Rider Horse 1st Poppy Clarke Rocky 2nd James Clarke Dandy   Class 4 3’0-3’3 Place Rider Horse 1st Victoria Thurwell Marmalade Duke 2nd James Clarke Dandy  

We have left our weekend show jumping course out for a further day to allow hire on Wednesday 6th June at our new rate of £20 / hour for two riders.  A further £5 is charged for each additional horse. Don’t worry about last minute booking on Wednesday, we will try and fit you in!

Following the success of our reduced rate trial period in May, we have decided to continue the reduced rates from  1st June 2012.  We hope this will encourage riders to use our arena more regularly for their personal training. Our new rates are summarised as follows and we provide a new price list for download / printing: Flatwork : £15 per hour (up to 2 riders) and add £5.00 per every additional horse Pole work / Showjumps (up to 6 jumps): £20 per hour (up to 2 riders) and add £5.00 per every additional horse. 01.06.2012 Rev D New Price List 01.06.2012 HFEC Terms & Conditions doc

We hope everyone who attended this competition had a good time and look forward to seeing you all and others at our next competition to be held on Saturday 9th June.  The results were as follows: CLASS  1 Walk  & Trot intro A (Children) JUDGE: Jackie Potter Section Rider Name& Number Horse Name & Number Col Mark % Place Led Megan Vickery Daisy May 72 164 71.3 1st Led Emily Watkins Minty 58 142 61.7 2nd Unled Megan Hill Diesel 60 137 59.5 1st CLASS 2 Prelim 1 (Children) JUDGE: Jackie Potter Section Rider Name& Number Horse Name & Number Col Mark % Place Unled Megan Hill Diesel 56 109 57.3 1st CLASS 3 Walk  & Trot Intro A/B Pic & Mix (Short Arena) JUDGE: Jackie Potter Section Rider Name& Number Horse Name & Number Col Mark % Place B Lynne Macleod Skye 70 157 68.2 1st A Andrea McMahon

We provide a copy of the results issued to British Dressage for information and competitors are asked to refer to the BD web site for the official results and points allocation: CLASS 1 Novice 22 S (Long Arena) JUDGE: Beth Franz (List 5) Bridle No   Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number   Col   Mark   %   Place Prize Money   1   R   Georgina Bull (87602)   Sun Bian (54336)   58   205   70.6   1st   1st   2   O Emma Payne(0158100) Sezincote Schumi(55517)   50   187   64.4   1st   4   O Donna Carter(178004)   UFO III (52796)   42   158   54.4   2nd AFFILIATED DRESSAGE CLASS 2 Novice 39 SQ (Long Arena) JUDGE: Beth Franz (List 5) Bridle No   Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number   Col  

What a fun filled day we all had on this event and we all hope you had as much fun as we did and look forward to seeing you all and others at our next children’s show to be held on Sunday 3rd June.  The results were as follows:   Class 1  Cross Pole only Class (Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Oliver Fry Penny 2nd Ruby Orenz Merlin 3rd Tabby Yendall Percy 4th Minnie Turkinton Smithy   Class 1  Cross Pole only Class (Un-Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Toby Fry Smartie 2nd Katie Watkins Tango 3rd Abbi Byrd Fancy Pants 4th Katie Watkins Polo 5th Kayleigh Scrivens Poppy 6th Milly Baker Freddie   Class 2 – 1’6 (Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Ruby Orenz Merlin 2nd Rory Watkins Serenade 3rd Minnie Turkinton Smithy   Class 2 – 1’6 (Un-Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Oliver Fry Penny 2nd Toby Fry Smartie

We hope everyone enjoyed our evening show jumping event and provide the results below: Class 1 2’3 – 2’6 Place Rider Horse 1st Stephanie Harris Button 2nd Jessica Stallard Ceris 3rd Lauren Henry Prince 4th Stephanie Harris Keita 5th Poppy Clarke Rocky   Class 2 2’6 – 2’9 Place Rider Horse 1st Abbi Whiting Second Chance 2nd Poppy Clarke Rocky 3rd Stephanie Harris Button 4th Stephanie Harris Keita   Class 3 2’9 – 3’0 Place Rider Horse 1st Jessica Stallard Bohenian 2nd Abbi Whiting SAS Special Agent Splash 3rd Abbi Whiting Second Chance 4th Ross Paxton Majic 5th Ross Paxton Tigger 6th Georgie Russon Mr Oogle Boogle   Class 4 3’0-3’3 Place Rider Horse 1st Jessica Stallard Bohenian 2nd Georgie Russon Mr Oogle Boogle 3rd Ross Paxton Majic 4th Ross Paxton Tigger

Please note that we are still running our popular unaffiliated dressage competition for both children and adults on Saturday 24th November, though we are experiencing problems with our web site. We provide an entry form and schedule for assistance below, so please either post your entry to us or alternatively call us to pay over the phone.  Hopefully you will be able to enter on-line or alternatively just scan in the entry form and email it to Jill at Jilly_m_rickards@hotmail.co.uk We apologies for any inconvenience caused by our web site problems but we have been assured that the technical faults we are currently experiencing are being sorted and the web site should be fully operational shortly. DAYTIME Dressage Entry Form Hartbury Qualifier Dressage Shows – Sept to Dec 2012 Please be aware that as from 7.30pm on Saturday 17th November you can now enter on line by clicking on the

Most people have heard of or experienced first hand the trauma of a family member having Cancer and as this has now directly affected our immediate family, Gary has taken on the LINC 3 Counties Cycle Ride on Sunday 10th June 2012, to raise some money for the LINC office at the Haematology Department at Cheltenham General Hospital.  The ride will start from Tewkesbury Rugby Club over an approximate distance of 32Km, and he will make his way through Bushley, Bushley Green, Upton on Severn and surrounding Cotswold town’s back to Tewkesbury. If anyone would like to make a donation then please complete the attached sponsorship form and return it to us at Home Farm with a cheque made payable to LINC.  Following receipt we will add your details to our master sponsorship form and then will submit the form and all donations to Cheltenham General Hospital once the cycle ride has been completed. Any sponsorship money received would be greatly

Due to unfortuanate circumstances here we are now having to cancel our holiday booked this coming week.  As the arena was planned to be closed from the 4th May until the 15th May, we are offering out the hire of the indoor arena at the below specially discounted rates for these dates only: FLATWORK – £15 / hour up to 2 riders (excludes lights at standard rate). Additional £2.50 / rider / hr SHOW JUMPING – £20 / hour up to 2 riders (excludes lights at standard rate). Additional £2.50 / rider / hr Please contact Jill on 07771 346512 or Gary on 07887 400239 to arrange bookings. We have so far received good feedback from riders wishing to book the arena under this offer, and if this support continues we may consider  reviewing our future hire rates for individuals.