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1 Vine Pony Club Spring Newsletter 2014 Vine Pony Club Committee Members and Organisers Area 13 Representative Mrs Sara Tremlett President Mrs Maggie Richardson District Commissioner Mrs Caroline Blatchford Woodhams Farmhouse, Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hants. SO23 7LB Assistant District Commissioner Mrs Brenda Sampson Tower Hill Court, Kingsclere, Berks. RG20 5SS Hon Treasurer & Child Protection Officer Mrs Bo De Groot Ashe Court, Ashe, Overton, Hants. RG25 3AH deborah.degroot@btinternet.com Hon Secretary & Club Clothing Mrs Penny Burton Ashley, Ball Hill, Newbury, Berks. RG20 0NS burton_ballhill@hotmail.com Chief Instructor & Eventing Mrs Phillippa Chamings Inhurst Farmhouse, Baughurst, Tadley, Hants. RG26 5JS chamingsracing@talk21.com Eventing 2 Mrs Carrie Lees Orchard House, Steventon, Basingstoke, Hants. RG25 3BE carrie.lees@btinternet.com General Rallies. Junior Camp & Health & Safety Mrs Fiona McAlister Holly Cottage, North Waltham, Basingstoke, Hants. RG25 2BZ fionajmcalister@yahoo.co.uk Show Jumping Dr Arlina Mauree / Mud Hall Cottage, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, Berks. RG20 8AY arlina@mauree.wanadoo.co.uk Dressage Mrs Katie Bartlett / Hogscombe, Greenham, Thatcham, Berks. RG19 8HW hogscombe@btinternet.com Mini Activities Mrs Tina Skipworth Adbury Park, Burghclere, Berks. RG20 4HB tina.skipworth@btconnect.com Racing Co-ordinator, Hunting and Tests/Badges Mrs Brenda Sampson , Tower Hill Court, Kingsclere, Berks. RG20 5SS Racing *Mrs Charlotte Fuller Penwood Grange, Penwood, Newbury, Berks. RG20 9EW fuller@penwoodgrange.com Senior Camp Mrs Tamsin Raymond / Stoken Farm, Steventon, Basingstoke, Hants. RG25 3BD tamsinraymond@aol.com Polo *Mr Jon Casemore Park Farm, Oakley, Basingstoke, Hants. RG23 7EH jon@parkfarmoakley.co.uk Website & Newsletter *Kirstin Goodenough Worting Wood Farm, Wootton St Lawrence, Basingstoke, Hants. RG23 8PA kirstin@woodlandstudio.co.uk *Not on Vine PC committee 1

2 Dear All, Hold onto your hats! Summer is here. It is fabulous to see those formerly shaggy ponies looking sleek and ready for action. A big thank you to all of our volunteers who are creating so many opportunities for our children this year. One volunteer who has committed hugely to the PC over the years is Sarah Curtis. Having supported the 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 when we hold major events and shows. This year the Pony Club is recognising her sterling contribution with a Cubitt Award which she will receive on 2 June Congratulations Sarah! Following our May show at Park Farm, Oakley (thank you to Mr & Mrs Small for allowing us to use the Park Farm facility), our next big event is the One Day Event at Woodhouse Farm (by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Pusinelli) on Monday 1 September. This event has two levels (level 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. We hope that as many members as possible will take part in the event and, perhaps even more importantly, as many parents, grandparents, friends, instructors, members etc. etc. will help as volunteers. Last year we needed around 45 volunteers. Please contact Rachel Bladon at rachelbladon1@googl .com if you can help. If you have noticed that this edition of Hoofprint looks just a little different, it is because Kirstin Goodenough has kindly taken over its production and has used her professional skills to give it a subtle revamp. Looks great! Thank you Kirstin. We do love to celebrate the activities of our members and their lovely ponies in Hoofprint. Please do send in your photographs and, if relevant, a little commentary. Competition photos are great (and do keep sending them) but we also want pictures of you and your pony just having fun! Congratulations Congratulations to Sharon and Chris on the birth of Master William Quant who was born on Friday 21st February weighing in at a fighting weight of 9lbs 13oz. All are doing well and, as you can see (right), William has already decided where he should be spending most of his days and is looking forward to becoming the youngest member of the Vine Pony Club and our mascot at the Area Show Jumping competition in June. 2 Caroline The Vine One Day Event The Vine levels 1 & 2 ODE will take place this year on Monday 1 September 2014 at Woodhouse Farm, Ashford Hill (by kind permission of the Pusinelli family). PLEASE SAVE THE DATE IN YOUR DIARY! We have two new organisers Rachel Bladon and Jayne Aufiero. Thank you ladies! We have chosen the Monday to avoid clashes with Newbury Show, the Southern Novice Championships, the Southern Mini Championships etc. etc. The Schedule will be out shortly. We shall send it by and put it up on our branch website and the main Pony Club calendar. It would be great if you could encourage PC friends to come along as well. Running alongside the main events will be a special smaller event just for our Vine Mini members. We are keen to include our younger riders in the competition and this year will be a test to see how a mini-mini class goes. If it is a success, we may open this section of the event to members from other branches next year. Running the ODE on a Monday does mean that we may lose of our regular helpers (we hope not!) but we would love to gain lots of new helpers including our older members and friends, relatives etc. Could you please contact Rachel Bladon at rachelbladon1@googl .com to let her know if you can help either the day before to set up or on the day. Last year we needed 45 people to help so please do volunteer. If you have a young child riding and cannot help yourself, please see if you can provide someone else e.g. relative, friend etc.

3 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 at the Royal Artillery Pony club show. Anouk was joined in qualifying for the Dengie Area Final by Lauren Wall, Connie Burrell and Tatiane Mauree. The final was hosted by Goodwood pony club and held at Crofton Manor. The girls all jumped a tough 95cm course extremely well, with Anouk placed 7th. Georgie Vile qualified her new pony for the Blue Chip Affiliated Championships at Hartbury. She jumped some great clear rounds in the final coming 17th overall. Six Vine members made the trek to the Cricklands Winter League Finals at the David Broome Centre in Wales (Jessica and Katie Blatchford, Lottie and Elizabeth Hutton and Anouk and Tatiane Mauree). All the girls jumped some great clear rounds and there were rosettes all round. All the girls did well in the overall championship with Anouk coming joint 2nd on points in the 3 championship and awarded the Championship Bronze Medal. Anouk will also be representing the Vine at 1.05m in the Pony Club Area 9 Championships later in the summer. Rider Development Pathway The Pony Club s new initiative the Rider Development Pathway is a scheme set up to identify the most talented Pony Club members in the country and help them prepare for programmes offered by the British Equestrian Federation and provide a stepping stone for young riders working towards the talent pathways of the three Olympic disciplines. The Pathway is open to all Pony Club members aged years who meet certain competitive criteria in Dressage, Show-Jumping and Eventing. This year over 250 riders applied to take part at nine regional training and assessment days. As Olivia was able to meet the criteria for her age group she applied for Eventing. Her application was successful and she spent an interesting training day at Warwickshire College, working first on the flat in a large group of members whose age and level of competence varied enormously and then show-jumping somewhat strangely with a group of members who had applied specifically to show-jump. Cross-country riding was not assessed. About 40 Pony Club members attended the day in Warwickshire with only three riders (sadly Olivia was not selected as the Eventing member) invited to attend a national camp in Cheshire this summer. Looking ahead, from the Cheshire camp 6 riders will be selected as the 2014 Pony Club Rider Development 3 Squad one from each discipline plus a further three. Having spoken to one of the organisers of the scheme, I understand that plans for the roll out of the scheme were developed in haste as funding for the pathway was only finalised 2 months ago. I am sure changes will be made to the scheme for next year with the benefit of hindsight. The organisers certainly felt that talented riders had been missed who had been unable to meet the necessary competitive criteria. I think it is a case of watch this space. This is certainly an exciting development for the Pony Club and extremely popular amongst members but may need some fine tuning over the coming months. Katie Bartlett

4 Easter Egg Hunt: Preparing for egg throwing Minis The minis are starting to shake off the winter blues, even the waterproofs have been left at home on occasion. The ponies are all getting their summer coats and we are looking forward to a busy summer. Over the winter we were very lucky to be able to use the lovely new school at Plantation Farm owned by Richard and Kate Bandy. We held a few mini rallies there which were well attended and just kept everyone ticking over. In March spring turned up at the farm with the arrival of calves and lambs. Some of our Minis came along one Saturday morning to feed the pet lambs and twin orphan calves. We took the opportunity to do the Mini Farming Badge congratulations to Roddy Goodenough, Henry McDermott, Eleanor Ford, Elinor Hewitt, Ella Woolmer, Ella Mead and Isabella Thorne who all passed with flying colours. During the Easter holidays we were very lucky to be able to visit Oaksey House, the rehabilitation centre for injured jockeys and people who work in racing. It is a wonderful facility and they were very welcoming. The children were given a lesson in falling off (using the airtrack) and were also allowed to use the Equicisors. I can certainly see that pony racing could suit some of our members. One or two of the adults also had a little instruction on the airtrack learning to fall correctly what I learnt was that I am too old to fall off. I have been visiting the physio ever since! Our annual Easter Egg Hunt was held on a dry, warm Saturday morning. 20 minis and their ponies came along. We had a lovely group hack round the farm and back to the garden where the ponies were then put away whilst the children looked for pegs to trade for chocolate. We played some egg inspired games (using real eggs) and finally had hotdogs and cake. A good morning was had by all. Looking ahead to the summer months we are now holding fortnightly rallies at Zoe s on a Wednesday evening, we are planning a picnic hack round Sydmonton Wood and of course camp is fast approaching. Zoe and I hope to see all our minis over the coming weeks and especially look forward to welcoming our new members. Happy Riding! Tina Learning about the Rehab facilities at Oaksey House Bertie tests the Airtrack at Oaksey House Discussing the reasons for learning to fall William and Elinor trial the Equicisors 4

5 Eventing HoofPrint The Vine eventing season got off to a good start on Sunday 25th April at the Bisley & Sandown Chase Pony Club. The Vine team of Tori McAlister, Gemma Raymond, Alice McGonnel and Anna Jones in the Level 3 won their class with Tori winning her section, Gemma and Alice both coming 2nd in their section and Anna 7th in her section. Miles Albert was also competing as an individual and he came 6th in his section. In the Level 2 class Jessica Blatchford came 7th. All of the Vine competitors enjoyed the event the course was beautiful with many of the fences in a wood surrounded by bluebells. Vine Survey Results Thank you to the 21 families who responded to the Vine Survey. Our very first attempt at a questionnaire the good news is that it all worked and we got some useful ideas both for mounted rallies and social events. For mounted rallies, jumping in its various forms (cross country, show jumping, general and grid work) are still the most popular with dressage in the mix as well. All things which we are currently offering. There is, however, a demand for all day rallies combined both with stable management and social activities and for a hack. Jenny Englefield and Brenda Sampson are putting together plans for a hack. Is there anyone who would be able to organise or help to organise an all day rally for the branch? In response to an interest in attending shows, Charlotte Piddington arranged for the branch to meet up on Cross Country Day at Badminton. We also have considerable enthusiasm being shown for eating pizzas and barbecues. In response to that I am looking for a volunteer to host a barbecue over the summer. Can you help? Caroline It is not every day that you find a National Champion in your midst! Nadine Gregory is a long standing instructor at the Vine Pony Club camp each year. This year she will be arriving at camp with a new title under her belt. On her beautiful gelding Candover Dramatico she won the Petplan Equine Area Festival Medium Restricted class at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships with a margin of over 3%. An amazing achievement! Royal Windsor Congratulations to Emma Chamings who represented the Vine Pony Club and Area 13 at Royal Windsor Show. Not a winner this time but a strong performance and a wonderful experience! For our experienced show jumpers this is an event to watch out for. Each local branch puts forward up to two nominated riders into a ballot and around 8 riders from Area 13 get the chance to compete. It usually gets advertised around the branch at the beginning of the year so keep your eyes peeled! 5

6 DATE DETAILS VENUE ORGANISER COST 27th May C +/ B Test Arlina Mauree 10 27th May C Test Mud Hall Cottage, Arlina Mauree 10 Winterbourne Road, Boxford, Berkshire. RG20 8AY Tuesday 27th May from 2pm Cross Country Rally 15 Tuesday 27th May 29th May AM Grid Rally with Sam Albert Road Rider with Brenda At the Pusinellis, Woodhouse Farm, Woodhouse Lane, Ashford Hill, RG19 8BA Yew Tree Stables, Ballhill, Newbury, RG20 0NG Woodhouse Farm, Woodhouse Lane, Ashford Hill, RG19 8BA 29th May Cross Country Rally Thanks to The Baldings, Cannon Heath Down, Kingsclere, RG25 3EJ 8th June 21st June 6th July 19th July Provisionally 20th July Show Jump Rally with Paul Crago. This rally is open to those confidently competing at 2 9 / 85cm and over. Maximum of 4 in a ride. Mud Hall Cottage, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, Berkshire. RG20 8AY Forms returned by 20th May to Carrie Lees, Orchard House, Steventon, Basingstoke, RG25 3BE Fiona McAlister 15 Brenda Sampson Carrie Lees 15 Arlina Mauree Paul is an international show jumper and has has been a GB nations cup member on several occasions. He is still successfully competing his own horses. Show Jump Rally with Sharon Quant Maximum of 4 sessions Show Jump Rally with Jess Dimmock East End Farm East End Newbury RG20 0AB Mud Hall Cottage, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, Berkshire. RG20 8AY Arlina Mauree Arlina Mauree Jess was the u23 British Champion at Olympia 2013 and is part of the British Show Jumping Elite Development Programme. She is trained by Tim Stockdale. This rally will be limited to 4 rides with a maximum of 5 in a ride. SJ with Sharon East End Farm Arlina Mauree East End Newbury RG20 0AB Show Jump Rally with Sharon Quant East End Farm East End Newbury RG20 0AB Arlina Mauree This will focus on teams for the Area Show Jumping and Hickstead Interbranch team competition. 6

7 BOOKING FORM 27th May 2014 Starting 12 noon 15 C+ Test / B Test Rally Payment Code CB27/05 Venue to be confirmed Member s name Age Enclosed Return by 15th May 2014 to Katie Bartlett, Hogscombe, Greenham, Thatcham, Berks. RG19 8HW BOOKING FORM 27th May 2014 Starting 9.30am 15 C Test Stable Management Rally Payment Code CT27/05 Mudhall, Boxford Member s name Age Enclosed Return by 15th May 2014: to Arlina Mauree, Mudhall, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, RG20 8AY or form to arlina_import@yahoo.co.uk BOOKING FORM 27th May (afternoon) 15 Cross Country Rally Payment Code: XC27/05 Woodhouse Farm, Ashford Hill It will be possible to attend this rally and any of the Test Rallies in the morning. Competing Can you do both days, if not which day can you do Return by 15th May: Carrie Lees, Orchard House, Steventon, Basingstoke, RG25 3BE 7

8 BOOKING FORM 29th May (morning) 15 Road Rider Rally Payment Code: RRR29/05 Woodhouse Farm, Ashford Hill Member s name Age Please tick which sessions: am Session 1 dismounted am Session 2 mounted dressed appropriately for the road am Session 3 dismounted am Session 4 mounted dressed appropriately for the road 10 I have completed sessions 1-4 and would like to do session 5, the mock test, followed by the test. The cost will be 20 but until I know if there are enough of you ready to do this I cannot arrange an examiner so do not arrange payment for this until notified. Enclosed Return by 15th May: Brenda Sampson, 2 Tower Hill Court, Kingsclere, Berks RG20 5SS BOOKING FORM 29th May (afternoon) 15 Cross Country Rally Payment Code: XC29/05 The Baldings, Kingsclere Those confidently jumping Competing Can you do both days, if not which day can you do Return by 15th May: Carrie Lees, Orchard House, Steventon, Basingstoke, RG25 3BE BOOKING FORM Sunday, 8th June Show Jump Rally with Paul Crago Payment Code SJ08/06 Mudhall, Boxford. Paul is an international show jumper and has been a GB nations cup member on several occasions. He is still successfully competing his own horses. This rally is open to those confidently competing at 2 9 /85cm and over. Maximum of 4 in a ride. Competing Return by 15th May 2014: Arlina Mauree, Mudhall, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, RG20 8AY or form to arlina_import@yahoo.co.uk 8

9 BOOKING FORM 11th June 2014 (5-7pm) 15 Dressage Rally With Matt Hicks Payment Code DR11/06 Hurstbourne Priors Equestrian Centre This rally is restricted to those who have been selected for the Area Dressage Championships Squad, including test riding with a judge. You will need to have returned the dressage team form to be considered for teams.... Return by 25th May 2014: Katie Bartlett, Hogscombe, Greenham, Thatcham, Berks RG19 8HW BOOKING FORM Sunday 22nd June 15 Show Jump Rally with Sharon Quant Payment Code: SJ22/06 East End Farm Attendance at this rally is highly recommended for those who would like to take part in the Area or Hickstead Teams.... Competing Return by 10th June: Arlina Mauree, Mudhall, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, RG20 8AY or form to arlina_import@yahoo.co.uk BOOKING FORM 2nd July 2014 (5-7pm) 15 Dressage Rally With Matt Hicks Payment Code DR02/07 Hurstbourne Priors Equestrian Centre This rally is restricted to those who have been selected for the Area Dressage Championships Squad, including test riding with a judge.... Return by 25th June 2014 to Katie Bartlett, Hogscombe, Greenham, Thatcham, Berks RG19 8HW 9

10 BOOKING FORM Sunday, 6th July Show Jump Rally with Jess Dimmock Payment Code SJ06/07 Mudhall, Boxford. Jess was the u23 British Champion at Olympia 2013 and is part of the British Show Jumping Elite Development Programme. She is trained by Tim Stockdale. This rally will be limited to 4 rides with a maximum of 5 in a ride.... Competing Return by 15th June 2014: Arlina Mauree, Mudhall, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, RG20 8AY or form to arlina_import@yahoo.co.uk BOOKING FORM Sunday 20nd July 15 Show Jump Rally with Sharon Quant Payment Code: SJ20/07 East End Farm This will particularly focus on training for those selected for Area or Hickstead Teams, however, this rally is open to all.... competing Return by 5th July 2014: Arlina Mauree, Mudhall, Winterbourne Road, Boxford, RG20 8AY or form to arlina_import@yahoo.co.uk 10