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Seniors Please find listed below dates for Barbara Ripman's Clinics for 2008. If you are interested in attending or would like more information please contact Barbara direct on the number / email below. Thank you. Kate Gibson - Pencoed College - Pencoed £30 for 40 minutes afternoon/evening sessions. Contact Sara Coffin 01656 302635 or SCoffin@bridgend.ac.uk
Carmarthen College 3/4hr ind. lesson £40
Kate Gibson - Cardiff Riding School Contact Penny Pembridge for more information including costs. 02920 383908 New Dates for 2008! 31May Spencer Wilton - Carmarthen College £55 for 45 minutes Contact Scott Gregory 01559 384407 / scottgregory@btopenworld.com Spencer Wilton - Marian Bach - North Wales Contact Paul Davies 01745 560196 or 07711 016301 daviespldvs@aol.com Rachel Struel - Moor Farm - Haverfordwest £40 for 45 minutes or £25 for shared lesson Contact Scott Gregory 01559 384407 / scottgregory@btopenworld.com Spencer Wilton - Lluest College - Aberystwyth - £55 for 45 minutes Contact Scott Gregory 01559 384407 / scottgregory@btopenworld.com BYRDS Contact Penny Jenner 01269 850042, 07989 385785 or dinefwr@supanet.com 25 May Joss Edwards - North West Wales Contact Veronica Bower 01492 572868 or email veronicabower@btinternet.com WALES NEWSLETTER – For Printer Friendly Version, Click Here Sue Harrison – Regional Development Officer Maes-y-Gwenith Llanvair Discoed Chepstow Monmouthshire NP16 6LN Tel: 01291 641259 – Email: ianmaesygwenith@aol.com Hello everyone and welcome to the Autumn Newsletter which has rapidly turned into the Winter Newsletter! We are busy planning our first Senior Camp. This is going to be held at Aberystwyth on 3 / 4 April. There is an affiliated competition taking place on 5 April and it is hoped that as many as possible will stay and compete. Programme is still being finalised, but it promises to be a great two days. We already have Angela Niemeyer Eastwood who is a German Grand Prix rider and BD trainer booked to do some training and also Andrea Hessay who is a listed judge and BD trainer. I have attached a booking form for this camp. If you are interested in attending please complete the booking form and return to me, together with your cheque (this secures your place but will not be cashed until after camp). There are only 24 places available due to stabling so if you would like to attend please return your booking form asap. Following on from the successful competition this year, the date for next years Senior Inter-Regional Competition is 24/25 May. This will be held at Keysoe College, Bedfordshire. We are hoping to be able to send 6 teams from Wales. This is a great competition and if you would like to be considered for the teams could you please let either Scott Gregory or myself know. Schedule is still being finalised but it will probably be along the same lines as this year. There is also going to be a Senior Home International, which is taking place at Hand Equestrian Centre on 11/12 October. We hope to be able to send our full quota of teams from Wales to this event. Again the schedule is still being finalised and once I have full details I will forward on to you all. As with all our team competitions clothing will be available for you to purchase should you wish to do so. We are also looking at sourcing some Wales team rugs for both our senior riders and our BYRDS riders. Again these will be available to buy for those representing Wales in team competitions. The Welsh committee are running a competition for someone to design a team rug for Wales. It needs to incorporate the Welsh colours and also have a Welsh theme. If you would like to enter this competition please send me a sketch showing both sides of the rug and front fastenings, together with any logo/design etc and colours. It doesn’t have to be a fantastic piece of art! These designs will then be judged and the winning design will be used for the team rug. The winner will receive a free rug. Entries for this competition close 30th December. The rugs are being supplied for us by Four Seasons Horse Rugs who are based in Ceredigion. Scott Gregory has arranged a visit to Carl Hester’s yard on Thursday 7th February, 0930 - 1300. We will be able to watch Carl work horses from 4 years to Grand Prix and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. The cost for this will be £15 for BD trainers and judges and £20 for anyone else. We need a minimum of 20 people and can take a maximum of 30. Please support this visit, as it is always very difficult to get dates for these visits. Once I know who wants to come I can look at sharing lifts etc. If you are interested in attending, please send a cheque made payable to British Dressage to me at my home address. Other regional training includes: Contact Penny Pembridge 02920 383908 leave message on answer phone. 23 May Grace Mew – Oswestry Equestrian Centre, Selattyn £35 for 45mins includes Indoor school hire, or two people sharing can be arranged. Tel 01978 752863. Mobile:-07517 463562. Debbie Jones - Welsh College of Horticulture - Northop - Flintshire Contact Marie Gellion 01352 720240 Dianne Breeze - Bryn Derw - Nr Caernarfon £41.50 for 45 mins contact Clare Stirling 01248 852672 c.stirling@stirlingthorne.co.uk Judge training has continued and we have run two successful sessions in North Wales, one at Marian Bach and the other at Welsh College, Northop. Both were very well supported. The following Judge Training has been arranged. 7 June – Welsh Festival – Novice / Elementary £12 per session. 8 June – Welsh Festival - Medium / Advanced Medium £12 per session 6 July – Marian Bach – Kim Ratcliffe – Novice £12 per session 9 November – Welsh College of Horticulture – Northop – Jane Peberdy – Novice / Elementary £12 per session Please make all cheques for judge training payable to British Dressage and send to me. Just to let you know that Anne Cooper a List 4 judge has moved to Upper Cwmbran, South Wales. She can be contacted on 01495 740367, 07813027090 or anne222@btinternet.com. I am sure you will all make her feel very welcomed. We currently have 28 trainee judges in Wales. The British Dressage Judge Training Exam System has changed, the exam itself is now hopefully less stressful. If you would like details of the new system, please let me know and I will send you a copy. For those of you who are in the process of sending in your CVs, the date of the next Judges Committee meeting is Monday 4th February 2008. The closing date for Cv’s to be considered is Tuesday 29th January 2008, any CV’s received after this time will unfortunately not be able to be considered until the next meeting, so please ensure that all the relevant paperwork is with BD before this date. We now have a full set of training DVS and are planning some DVD evenings in the future. There is an opportunity for trainees or judges who are interested in writing at either the Winter or National championships. Please contact Caroline Weston by the end of January for the Winters and by the end of June for the Nationals. This is an ideal opportunity for trainee judges or judges who are in the process of upgrading to further their judging experience. Caroline’s contact details are candaweston@uwclub.net There is also a very useful website for judges which is www.judgesnotebook.co.uk Sharon can be contacted on 02920 634611 / 07841 580411– sharoncl@fsmail.net Lluest Equine Centre is running a Winter League dressage champs this winter for riders with a disability. The final will take place on 31 May 2008. This has kindly been sponsored by Celtic Equestrian. There is a para class at all novice affiliated competitions run at Aberystwyth. For more information please contact Carol Green. After a very successful training day with Jane Goldsmith. Carol Green is planning a workshop to be held in the new year with Jane Goldsmith FBHS as the trainer. The aim is to open the day to anyone who is interested to promote paras and make a greater awareness of it. It will be open to trainers, judges and anyone else who has an interest in it. As soon as Jane has given us a date I will let you know. For all Para Training contact Carol Green on 01970 622575 or cgg@aber.ac.uk BYRDS are still going from strength to strength in Wales. Having done consistenly well throughout the Summer there were some good individual placings at Sheepgate in August. Special congratulations must go to Jenna Capel who came 3rd at the Talent Spotting Final in Adddington. The standard at this competition was extremely high and Jenna just proves what talent there is in Wales. BYRDS camp has been arranged to take place on 31 March / 1 April at David Broome Event Centre. There is an affiliated competition there on 2 April and it is hope that as many as possible will stay and compete. I have attached the booking form and if you are interested in attending please return the booking form together with a cheque and I will reserve a place. The cheque will not be cashed until after camp. Some 2008 dates for your diary include: 3 / 4 May Necarne Castle Dressage Festival – Northern Ireland 5 / 6 July Marlton U21 Dressage Championship – Wicklow - Ireland 12 / 13 July BYRDS Inter Regional competition – Keysoe – Bedfordshire 26 / 27 July BYRDS Home International – Myerscough Int Arena 21 / 25 August BYRDS U25’s Championship – Sheepgate – Lincolnshire The following BYRDS training has been arranged. 28 December - Islay Auty - Dinefwr Riding Centre Contact Penny Jenner 01269 850042, 07989 385785 or dinefwr@supanet.com Carol Green - Lluest College - Aberystwyth - £30 for 45 mins – contact RDO Contact Veronica Bower 01492 572868 or email veronicabower@btinternet.com Other dates for your diary: National Sports Science Seminar will be run on the 20th February 2008 – Hartpury College Contact Ruth Tyler. National Judges Seminar 2008 - Monday 14th April at Addington Manor EC, Bucks / Eric Lette from Sweden. 10am - 4pm Apply to Lianne Harris at British Dressage for tickets Thank you to those of you who have sent me your email addresses it really does make my life a lot easier and enables me to get information out to you as soon as it is available. If you would like your address added please email it to me. **************************************************************************************** Sue Harrison - Regional Development Officer 01291 641259 / 07894 232359 – email ianmaesygwenith@aol.com Jeanne Hyett – Chairman 02920 885697 – email jh.wdlandsfm@btinternet.com Dr Carol Green – Paralympic 01970 622575 – email cgg@aber.ac.uk Penny Jenner – BYRDS (British Young Riders Scheme) 01269 850042 / 07989 385785 – email dinefwr@supanet.com Sharon Clinch – Judges Representative 02920 634611 / 07841 580411– email sharoncl@fsmail.net Carolyn Evans – Members Representative 01446 781498 Scott Gregory – Training Representative 01559 384407 - scottgregory@btopenworld.com Paul Davies – North Wales Representative 01745 560196 / 07711 016301 email Daviespldvs@aol.com Angela Townsend – North Wales (East) BYRDS Clinic Organiser 01244 660347/ 07789 225873 – email angel25t@btinternet.com Veronica Bower – North Wales (West) BYRDS Clinic Organiser 01492 572868 – email veronicabower@btinternet.com Grace Mew – North Wales Judges 01978 752863 – email gmew@msn.com |
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