Hoofprint Spring Newsletter 2014
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VINE PONY CLUB www.pcuk.org/vine HoofPrint SPRING NEWSLETTER 2014 VINE PONY CLUB COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND ORGANISERS Area 13 Representative Mrs Sara Tremlett President Mrs Maggie Richardson District Commissioner Dressage Mrs Caroline Blatchford Mrs Katie Bartlett 07850 135 138 01635 268 288 / 07711 747 715 Woodhams Farmhouse, Hogscombe, Greenham, Thatcham, Berks. Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hants. SO23 7LB RG19 8HW [email protected] [email protected] Assistant District Commissioner Mini Activities Mrs Brenda Sampson Mrs Tina Skipworth 01635 298 379 01635 337 73 2 Tower Hill Court, Kingsclere, Berks. RG20 5SS Adbury Park, Burghclere, Berks. RG20 4HB [email protected] Hon Treasurer & Child Protection Officer Mrs Bo De Groot Racing Co-ordinator, Hunting and Tests/Badges 01256 770 260 Mrs Brenda Sampson Ashe Court, Ashe, Overton, Hants. RG25 3AH 01635 298 379 [email protected] 2, Tower Hill Court, Kingsclere, Berks. RG20 5SS Hon Secretary & Club Clothing Racing Mrs Penny Burton *Mrs Charlotte Fuller 01635 254 761 01635 250 658 Ashley, Ball Hill, Newbury, Berks. RG20 0NS Penwood Grange, Penwood, Newbury, Berks. [email protected] RG20 9EW [email protected] Chief Instructor & Eventing Mrs Phillippa Chamings Senior Camp 01189 814 494 Mrs Tamsin Raymond Inhurst Farmhouse, Baughurst, Tadley, Hants. RG26 5JS 07833 536 363 / 01256 397 257 [email protected] Stoken Farm, Steventon, Basingstoke, Hants. RG25 3BD [email protected] Eventing 2 Mrs Carrie Lees Polo 01256 397 571 *Mr Jon Casemore Orchard House, Steventon, Basingstoke, Hants. 07747 880 592 RG25 3BE Park Farm, Oakley, Basingstoke, Hants. RG23 7EH [email protected] [email protected] General Rallies. Junior Camp & Health & Safety Website & Newsletter Mrs Fiona McAlister *Kirstin Goodenough 01256 397 442 07974 715160 Holly Cottage, North Waltham, Basingstoke, Hants. Worting Wood Farm, Wootton St Lawrence, Basingstoke, RG25 2BZ Hants. RG23 8PA [email protected] [email protected] Show Jumping Dr Arlina Mauree 07966 886912 / 01488 658002 Mud Hall Cottage, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, Berks. RG20 8AY [email protected] *Not on Vine PC committee 1 Summer 2014 HoofPrint Dear All, The Vine One Day Event Hold onto your hats! Summer is here. It is fabulous to see those formerly The Vine levels 1 & 2 ODE will shaggy ponies looking sleek and ready for action. take place this year on Monday 1 September 2014 at Woodhouse Farm, A big thank you to all of our volunteers who are creating so many Ashford Hill (by kind permission of the opportunities for our children this year. One volunteer who has committed Pusinelli family). PLEASE SAVE THE hugely to the PC over the years is Sarah Curtis. Having supported the DATE IN YOUR DIARY! Vine in a variety of roles whilst her own children were members, Sarah now takes charge of some of the key health and safety tasks needed We have two new organisers – when we hold major events and shows. This year the Pony Club is Rachel Bladon and Jayne Aufiero. recognising her sterling contribution with a Cubitt Award which she will Thank you ladies! receive on 2 June 2014. Congratulations Sarah! We have chosen the Monday to Following our May show at Park Farm, Oakley (thank you to Mr & Mrs avoid clashes with Newbury Show, Small for allowing us to use the Park Farm facility), our next big event is the Southern Novice Championships, the One Day Event at Woodhouse Farm (by kind permission of Mr and the Southern Mini Championships Mrs Pusinelli) on Monday 1 September. This event has two levels (level etc. etc. 1 and level 2) which are open to PC members (see details on schedule due out shortly) and a special mini-mini level open to Vine members only. The Schedule will be out shortly. We We hope that as many members as possible will take part in the event shall send it by email and put it up and, perhaps even more importantly, as many parents, grandparents, on our branch website and the main friends, instructors, members etc. etc. will help as volunteers. Last year Pony Club calendar. It would be great we needed around 45 volunteers. Please contact Rachel Bladon at if you could encourage PC friends to [email protected] if you can help. come along as well. If you have noticed that this edition of Hoofprint looks just a little different, Running alongside the main events it is because Kirstin Goodenough has kindly taken over its production and will be a special smaller event just has used her professional skills to give it a subtle revamp. Looks great! for our Vine Mini members. We are Thank you Kirstin. keen to include our younger riders in the competition and this year will be We do love to celebrate the activities of our members and their lovely a test to see how a mini-mini class ponies in Hoofprint. Please do send in your photographs and, if relevant, goes. If it is a success, we may open a little commentary. Competition photos are great (and do keep sending this section of the event to members them) but we also want pictures of you and your pony just having fun! from other branches next year. Caroline Running the ODE on a Monday does mean that we may lose of our regular helpers (we hope not!) but Congratulations we would love to gain lots of new helpers including our older members Congratulations to Sharon and and friends, relatives etc. Could you Chris on the birth of Master please contact Rachel Bladon at William Quant who was born on [email protected] to Friday 21st February weighing let her know if you can help either the in at a fighting weight of 9lbs day before to set up or on the day. 13oz. Last year we needed 45 people to All are doing well and, as help so please do volunteer. If you you can see (right), William have a young child riding and cannot has already decided where help yourself, please see if you can he should be spending most provide someone else e.g. relative, of his days and is looking friend etc. forward to becoming the youngest member of the Vine Pony Club and our mascot at the Area Show Jumping competition in June. 2 Summer 2014 HoofPrint Show Jumping Report We have had a great start to the 2014 Show Jumping. Bea Webber, Grace McFarlane and Izzy Ackroyd represented the Vine at the Goodwood Pony Club Show Jumping–all the girls jumped clear and the team came 5th. Really well done–fabulous result. Congratulations to Hattie Lees taking two 1st places at the New Forest Hunt Pony club show, with Lucy Harley 7th and Anouk Mauree 7th in their respective classes at the same show. To continue the success, well done to Gemma Raymond for her 4th place in the 90cm Open and Anouk for the winning the Dengie Winter League Qualifier & coming 2nd in 1m class jumped some great clear rounds in at the Royal Artillery Pony club the final coming 17th overall. Six show. Anouk was joined in qualifying Vine members made the trek to the for the Dengie Area Final by Lauren Cricklands Winter League Finals at Wall, Connie Burrell and Tatiane the David Broome Centre in Wales Mauree. The final was hosted by (Jessica and Katie Blatchford, Goodwood pony club and held at Lottie and Elizabeth Hutton and Crofton Manor. The girls all jumped Anouk and Tatiane Mauree). All a tough 95cm course extremely well, the girls jumped some great clear with Anouk placed 7th. rounds and there were rosettes all round. All the girls did well in the Championship Bronze Medal. Anouk Georgie Vile qualified her new overall championship with Anouk will also be representing the Vine pony for the Blue Chip Affiliated coming joint 2nd on points in the at 1.05m in the Pony Club Area 9 Championships at Hartbury. She 3’ championship and awarded the Championships later in the summer. Rider Development for her age group she applied Squad–one from each discipline plus for Eventing. Her application a further three. Pathway was successful and she spent The Pony Club’s new initiative–the an interesting training day at Having spoken to one of the Rider Development Pathway–is a Warwickshire College, working organisers of the scheme, I scheme set up to identify the most first on the flat in a large group of understand that plans for the roll talented Pony Club members in members whose age and level of out of the scheme were developed the country and help them prepare competence varied enormously in haste as funding for the pathway for programmes offered by the and then show-jumping–somewhat was only finalised 2 months ago. I British Equestrian Federation and strangely–with a group of members am sure changes will be made to provide a stepping stone for young who had applied specifically to the scheme for next year with the riders working towards the talent show-jump. Cross-country riding benefit of hindsight. The organisers pathways of the three Olympic was not assessed. About 40 Pony certainly felt that talented riders had disciplines. The Pathway is open to Club members attended the day in been missed who had been unable all Pony Club members aged 12-18 Warwickshire with only three riders to meet the necessary competitive years who meet certain competitive (sadly Olivia was not selected as criteria. I think it is a case of “watch criteria in Dressage, Show-Jumping the Eventing member) invited to this space”. This is certainly an and Eventing. attend a national camp in Cheshire exciting development for the Pony this summer.