Christmas holidays - our programme of special activities is now available to book via ECPro
University Competition - De Montfort University train here at Witham Villa and after selection trials they now have an A and B Team. The A team had their home competition here in November comprising a dressage test followed by a showjumping round on a different horse. The teams are made up of four riders per team for each university competing. Each horse is ridden around the same course by one member of each team and points are awarded on the best round per horse and accumulate for the team result. Horses that take part are Orla, Mac, Buddy and Roxy, Murphy, Jeanie, Shannon, Victor, Deacon
Staff - Friday 24th November was staff pizza day as part of the Good Employment week. Thank you to Ruth in the cafe for putting on a great spread that was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
British Dressage - we now have several horses qualified for the Winter Regionals:- India has Ivan (Ivan The Terrible) qualified for both the Elementary Gold and Medium Gold and Izzy (Issey Magic) qualified for the Medium Gold, Verity has Gaya qualified for the Medium Silver Freestyle.
Training - Verity took Gaya for a lesson with Gareth Hughes which was very beneficial and also a clinic with Kate Cowell. India continues to train with Gareth.
World Class Programme - India attended the Equine Sport Science Day held at Hartpury College with lectures on biomechanics, fitness, training, use of different surfaces, use of water treadmills and other topics.
Dressage Camp and Clinic - Verity held the final camp of 2023 in November, dates for next year are now available on My Riding Life and are generally the third Monday of each month.
British Dressage Convention - held at Addington this celebrated 25 years of British Dressage. India was delighted to be invited to attend as a demo rider for a session that was run by Gareth Hughes. We were very proud of them as they performed beautifully in front of a very large audience demonstrating work on half passes, canter pirouettes, 4 time, 3 time and 2 time tempi changes. and finishing by showing work developing the one time changes required for Grand Prix.