MID Devon Riding Club, a small and friendly club near Okehampton, are exceptionally proud to have qualified two teams and two individuals for the Riding Clubs National Horse Trials Championship.
Members have put in much time and training to gain their wins at the Area 19 qualifier that was held earlier this month and they will now be representing Devon and Cornwall next month.
The open team of Marie Ewen, Kim Bland, Charlie Rowe and Amanda Friend won their section as did the intermediate team of Charlie Rowe, Sally McIntyre, Jen Rashbrooke and Shouna Sibcy. The second Intermediate team Izzie Potts, Erin Courtney, Karen Rickards and Kim Bland finished a creditable fourth.
Daisy Cornwall riding Fernhill First Diamond qualified as an individual for the senior novice section. Alice Monger (Mighty Max) qualified as a junior novice while the junior team came third, just missing out on qualification. Alice was joined by team mates Olivia Thornton, Fran Risdale and Molly Cornwall.
The BRC Championships will be held from August 5-7 at Aston Le Walls in Northamptonshire and will also be hosting the European Riding Club CIC Championship alongside its own National Championship. There will be 3,000 competitors, together with their families, friends, helpers and spectators, it guarantees to be a very well supported event.
The open and intermediate teams will both complete a 3-Day Event at the Championship including a dressage test, road and tracks, a steeplechase course and lastly a cross country course.
n The club is looking for potential sponsors to help with the high cost of sending 10 members with their horses to a national championships. If you can help please contact Shouna at [email protected]">[email protected] or 07740 626166. For more information about the club visit http://www.middevonrc.co.uk">www.middevonrc.co.uk
EMILY Colling flew the flag for the Mid Devon Pony Club at the Area Tetrathlon competition last weekend. The shoot and swim phases were held at the Dawlish leisure centre and the running and cross country ride at Bicton.
Former club member and Olympic hopeful, Georgina Geikie, had recently given the club's tetrathletes a coaching session and this was obviously a great success with Emily, who shot a wonderful personal best score of 940. This was the second best score in her class, only beaten by a girl who hit a maximum ten bulls out of ten.
With just one stop over Bicton's daunting X-C course, Emily did really well to finish in seventh place in the novice junior class.