REPORT
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Area 10 Indoor Show Jumping,
Inter-club Friendly |
28th January |
The Club got the year off to a good
start with a win at the Area 10 inter-club Indoor Show Jumping held at Golden Cross, East
Sussex. The competition was for Senior and Junior teams of three which consisted of a
novice rider, a novice horse and an open horse and rider combination.
The Sevenoaks team of Ann Mills (Grey
Fly), Sara Roberts (Bonny) and Jo Thomas (Rosie) won the Senior competition as the only
one of twenty-two teams to jump two rounds with a clean slate.
Riding Campanile, Sara was also part
of the Sevenoaks team that came sixth, with Jan Ames (Sparky) and Clare Gaylor (Aries).
Several Sevenoaks members are also
Bradbourne RC members and compete for that club – and we don’t hold it against
them! Annie Etherington (Jazmine) was in the Bradbourne Riding Club team with Carole Cook
(Finnigan) and Marisa Turner (Danny’s Limmerick) which came second, just 4 faults
behind the leaders.
Bradbourne’s second team, Carole
Cook (Budding Annie), with Sevenoaks members Lynn Bright (Murphy) and Janet Phillips
(Silvern Conetta), came fourth.
The morning’s Junior competition
was a more controversial affair due to some unusual course building.
Sevenoaks thought that their first
rider had had a clear round only to hear that Alice Burgess and Rex had been eliminated
for failing to go through the finish. Even though she had passed the only “Finish”
marker in a round that wasn’t against the clock, she had failed to break the beam of
the timer which was angled away from the final fence and the exit from the ring.
Alice was only the third
rider in the class, the first having been eliminated for failing to jump the last fence
altogether. Once the word went round that to cross the beam horses had to make a sharp
right hand turn after the last fence no one else made that mistake but it did lead to the
unattractive sight of some riders who made a big jump over the last fence having to drag
their horses round to avoid jumping an additional fence.
Alice had the consolation of riding a double clear on Cracker, along
with Emma Howard (Paddy) and Khia Cadney-Moon (Phoebe) to give that team second place. Of
the eliminated team, Khia (La Gioa) came second in her section and Daisy Price (Minnie)
was first in hers, leaving them wondering what might have been had Rex been able to go
into the jump off.
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