REPORT
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Area 10 Dressage & Riding
Test Qualifier |
Kent County Showground, Detling
- 25th June |
Sevenoaks RC had a successful day at the Area 10
Qualifier for the British Riding Clubs’ National Championship to be held in Lincoln
in September.
Laura Reeves (Hedera Hat), Alice Burgess
(Florida Sunshine) and Emma Howard (Boolah Bee) won the Junior Riding Test team
competition, with both Laura and Alice coming first in their arenas.
Nicola Bunch(Radscha) won her arena for Prelim 13
in the Junior Novice Dressage so she also qualified for Lincoln, with Alice Burgess
(Florida Sunshine) third. Laura Reeves (Hedera Hat) came second in her arena riding Novice
26 and Emma Galpin (Black Star) was sixth in her arena riding the same test.
Emma and Laura also qualified for Lincoln in the
Junior Pairs Dressage despite Emma’s horse having a sudden attack of lameness in the
arena. They were the only Junior Pair entered and had been doing very well until the
unexplained lameness, so Gill Wise allowed them to continue the test so that they could
qualify. They deserved the chance because last year, when they were also the only pair at
Detling, they went on to a very creditable fourth place at Lincoln.
In the Senior Novice Dressage, Vikki Kent (The
Bear Necessity) was second in her arena and Briony Bunch (Highjinx Jack) was fifth in hers
in ompetition with the representatives of thirty two teams.
Senior Open Dressage had to go to all four score
before Vicky Rees (Market Design), Eleanor Comer (Climate), Julie Southby (Piglet) and Jo
Thomas (Dubonnet) were able to claim victory over Ardingly. Vicky was second individually
in Elem 43, Eleanor, third in Nov 30, Julie, sixth in Nov 26 and Jo was fifth in Novice 21
on both Dubonnet and Kruja Roslyn.
Sevenoaks also came tantalisingly close to winning
the Senior Riding Test Competition but one of the team was disqualified because the horse’s
vaccination certificate showed the correct
series of vaccination but the identity section, diagram and description, had not been
filled in, so did not, as the rules require, undeniably relates to the horse.
However Julie Southby came sixth in the Advanced Riding Test and Eleanor Comer
qualified as an individual winning with a score ten per cent ahead of anyone else. A delighted Chef d’Equipe, June Burgess, said
that she had never seen a test sheet like it; the marks were all eights and nines.
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