2009 ARCHIVE

CHIDDINGFOLD FARMERS' TETRATHLON, 19th October
Yet another very successful day for our fab tetrathletes. Both Katarina (best shoot) and Charlie (best shoot & swim) WON their sections and our team also WON. The other team members with Katarina where Suzannah Monk (2nd & best run), Indi Thompson & Charlotte Cruickshank. Our Parents Team of Tim (best swim) & Daniela Chichester Kaner, Steve Cruickshank and Julian Monk also WON from 9 teams of parents, each doing 1 phase of the competition.We had lots of good Minis out - Giselle & Luke Stent, Rosie Jameson, Matthew Rowe, Grace Jelley and Olivia Moriano, with Luke coming 6th in his section. Well done to the CKs and Jane for brilliant organising! See Gallery for photos

SOUTH BERKS TETRATHLON, 11th October CHID FARMERS' DO IT AGAIN!
Our team of Charlie, Katarina and Suzannah did brilliantly and WON the competition - each riding their own horses for a change and not anybody else's.  Charlie WON with best shoot and run, Katarina WON with best shoot and Suzannah came 3rd with best run.

Our brilliant Tetrathletes Katarina, Indi, Suzannah and Charlotte at OS&B

OS&B TETRATHLON, 5th September
The team who won this event last year won again by 600 points with Katarina coming 2nd, Suzannah 3rd, Indie 6th and Charlotte 12th. Charlie CK also won by 500 points individually. The team had a great day with their brilliant ponies Snip and Henry going round the x-country twice both times clear.  Congratulations also to Katarina, who came 9th and Suzannah, who came 14th, at the National Pentathlon Championships in Birmingham at the end of August.  It was their first Pentathlon and they are now very keen to do more!

Annie, Megan, Francesca and Florice - our winning Eventers and
Holly, Rosie, Luke and Hannah - our winning Showjumpers at the Southern Mini Championships

SOUTHERN MINI CHAMPIONSHIPS, Berkshire College, 30th August
Thank you to all our fabulous Mini competitors and their stalwart supporters for making this year's Mini Championships such a success.  A lot of hard work has gone on this year to bring everyone on and prepare for this event. 

Our Horse Trials team of Francesca Vallini on Malibu, Megan Brown on Dyno, Annie Murphy on Rupert and Florice Cole-Fontayn on Conker all rode their hearts out, as they have done all year, to WIN the whole competition, with good dressage tests and double clears all round.  Individually in their respective sections they came 3rd, 1st, 1st and 4th - a fantastic result and a great credit to the four of them and their wonderful ponies.

Individually in the dressage Olivia Moriano on Jack was 5th in her arena and Holly Partridge on Bailery was 8th in hers.  The other dressage competitors should all be congratulated on riding some really good tests - well done to Oliva Randell on Billy, Giselle Stent on Robin, Rosie Meadows on Mouse, Rosie Jameson on Ziggy, Hannah Ede on Parsley and Georgie Kemp on Midnight.

Our Show Jumping teams worked their socks off.  The CF Tigers, Rebecca Lewis on Cotty, Rosie J on Ziggy, Moses Fiddian-Greeen on Major and Georgie Kemp on Midnight all rode superb clears in the first round, and then responded with great bravery to the testing second round.  Well done to Moses who finished as top of the Tigers, even having been stung under the eye after the first round!  The CF Lions, Holly Partridge on Bailey, Rosie Meadows on Mouse, Hannah Ede on Parsley and Luke Stent on Lightning rode brilliantly and ended the day with four stunning double clears.  Only six teams got through to the jump off, and Luke and Lightning were chosen to ride on behalf of his team.  Luke rode with great intelligence and Lightening responded like magic.  They took the short route at every fence, and with their speed and sure footedness rode into the lead.  No other rider managed to get near him, and Luke lead his team to a magnificent triumph.  The Lions WON the whole competition!!

Charlotte, Katie, Susanna, Alice, Georgina, Indi, Phoebe & Katarina with all their rosettes

SOUTHERN NOVICE CHAMPIONSHIPS, Pachesham, 23rd August
What a brilliant end to a brilliant year for our Novices. At the Southern Novice Championships we had 8 keen eventers flying the flag for us and all 8 were placed individually. Alice Hanson on her first outing with Ombu WON her area, Susanna Milton and Dougal and Georgina Ambrose and George both went double clear to finish 3rd, Katie Patrick and Sue also came 3rd, Katarina Chichester Kaner and Snip came 4th, India Thompson on her first outing with Henry did a double clear to come 4th, Charlotte Murphy and Guinness came 6th and Phoebe Fuller and Toby came 8th. The team of Susanna, Charlotte, Alice and Katie finished 3rd and Phoebe, Georgina, Katarina and India finished 5th. An excellent round off to the year for the Novice section, which has seen some excellent riding, good results, huge progress made by horses and riders, brilliant team spirit and sportsmanship, and loads of lemon drizzle cake! Here's to next year.

Ella, Chloe and Rebecca on the winners' podium at
The Pony Club Championships

PONY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS, Draycott House, 17th August
We are absolutely delighted to report that our Senior Horse & Pony Care Team of Chloe Collins, Rebecca Brown and Ella Sparkes WON this stiff competition by a margin of 20 clear points to become National Champions. The questions are mainly at B test level and above and this is a brilliant achievement due in no small part to the fantastic training they receive from Kathy Merrick. It was Chloe's 8th attempt at the title and she has been in the 2nd placed team several times, so well done Chloe for perserverance!

Anna Lawson, Tots Hanson and Laura Normand went up to Dracott House for the Open Eventing as they qualified as the winning team at Iping.    Ali's horse was sadly lame so he could not ride there with them. The course was very technical, with lots of skinnies, and a water complex which saw lots of eliminations and retirements.    It was a real Championship course, as many of them found out.    Tots completed, and I am sure next year they will be aiming to get up there again. Anna and Katie Harper also qualified for the open dressage championships, and rode there too. They all did brilliantly to get up to Draycott House, especially as they were all first timers, apart from Katie, who has been a regular at the Championships!

Our brilliant Minis, Annie, Holly, Florice and Francesca

ROMNEY MARSH ODE, 16th August
The Mini Team and all their supporters (two wonderful Dads included!!) had a lovely day down at the Romney Marsh ODE. Holly Partridge on Bailey was a Team member for the first time, with Annie Murphy on Rupert, Francesca Vallini on Malibu and Florice Cole-Fontayn on Conker. Everyone put in fabulous double clears to WIN the team competition. Francesca won her section, Annie was second in hers and Florice fifth in hers.

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Our Open Area Showjumpers Harri, Laura and Emma and
our 4th placed Minis Francesca, Florice, Megan and Holly

AREA SHOW JUMPING, Cranleigh, 4th August
In a day of mixed fortunes for the Chid Farmers, our Mini Eagles (Francesca Vallini, Florice Cole-Fontayn, Megan Brown and Holly Partridge) came a brilliant 4th out of 24 teams. The Mini Hawks (Hannah Ede, Luke Stent, Rosie Meadows and Briony Pearson) came 7th. Francesca and Hannah both jumped three lovely clear rounds and Florice, Luke, Rosie and Briony all jumped double clear - what an achievement! In the Novices, Grace Lloyd Jones jumped three stylish clear rounds to finish Individual 2nd and Phoebe Fuller finished on just 4 faults. The Novice B team of Georgina Ambrose, Charlie Chichester Kaner, Ellie Lloyd Jones and Chris Milton finished 12th and were 4th in Tack & Turnout. Louise Normand jumped two skilful clear rounds as an individual in the Intermediate Class to finish 8th. The Open Team of Emma Copestick, Laura Normand and Harri Snelling came 3rd in the Tack & Turnout. Emma jumped a fantastic clear round at 3'9 and we were delighted to have her back representing the branch.

Our soggy Novices at Area Dressage

AREA DRESSAGE, Eashing, 1st August
Another brilliant result for Anna Lawson - she came 3rd in her Open Arena and qualified as an individual for the Pony Club Championships! Other results in the Open Classes were Beth Stephens and Emma Copestick 4th in the Warmup and Katie Harper 4th in the Qualifier. In the Intermediate Class, Susannah Milton and Louise Normand came 6th, whilst Alice Hanson came 5th in her Intermediate debut. The Intermediate team finished 6th. Our Novice teams endured a very soggy afternoon to come away with brilliant results. In the warm up class 5 of the 7 were placed - Ellie 2nd, Christopher (riding a borrowed horse) 3rd, Georgina 4th, Grace 6th and Charlotte 7th. In the Area test Grace WON, Charlotte was 3rd, Katarina 4th, Ellie 7th and Christopher 8th. The team of Ellie, Grace, Katarina and Georgina finished in 3rd place, just missing qualification for the Championships. Grace qualified as an individual to go to the Championships, but unfortunately cannot go. Katarina also was given a qualification place but cannot go either, but to fly the flag for us Charlotte was also given a qualification place and will be able to go, so best of luck for Cheshire.

Our Winning Area Tetrathletes Indi, Charlie, Suzannah,
Katarina and Charlotte

AREA 11 & 13 TETRATHLON, Eridge, 26th & 27th July
What an excellent weekend for the Chid Farmers - we WON the Area 13 Tet Salver again and the team came a very close 2nd overall across both areas. Katarina came 3rd individually, Suzannah 8th with the best run, 12th for Indi and Charlotte 13th. The Chichester Kaner's pony Snip was a star as he had to go round twice. Charlie came 2nd and won the Area 13 Junior boys cup again - with the best shoot and swim - the broken leg is obviously better! The Area 13 girls team also WON - Katarina was in this one and the B team of Charlotte, Suzannah and Indi came 3rd.

Our Winning Open Area Eventing Team of Tots, Anna, Laura & Ali and Emily Stovod and Louise Normand, our Individually placed Intermediates

AREA HORSE TRIALS, Iping, 11th July
How fantastic and exciting - our Open team of Tots, Ali, Anna and Laura have qualified for the Championships! They all did very well in their dressage arenas, achieving excellent scores, and Laura in particular, who won the best dressage award for her arena.   The show jumping course, on a slope and very slippery because of the rain, threw up cricket scores - Tots and Anna went clear, two of the very few clear rounds at this level of the competition. The cross country was very technical with a number of offset combinations, and as a result there were lots of penalties. But clear rounds from our team, and over all the direct routes, made sure that not only did they qualify for the Championships (and only one team did) but they WON quite easily.   Ali came 7th in his arena, Tots and Anna WON their arenas. All 4 members were first timers at this level, and Tots and Anna shared the award for the highest placed first timers. We had an Intermediate team of three, Harri, Louise and Emily, all with relatively new horses. They all did nice dressage tests, and once again showed how well they could do in the show jumping, producing two clear rounds when poles were falling all over the place. The cross country course was quite stiff, and Chid Farmers finished with Louise coming 4th on Jack and Emily 7th on Monty, very good results for such new combinations. In the Novice Class Grace Lloyd Jones was a brilliant 2nd with a dressage of 29.6, Ella Lloyd Jones 6th and Leah Peatroy 6th.

PETERSFIELD ONE DAY EVENT, Coombelands, 5th July
A brilliant day for the Novices! We had 11 people competing at this event, with 2 strong teams and 3 individuals. Dressage went well for our doubles (the 2 Lloyd-Jones, Ellie and Grace and the 2 Susanna/Suzannahs, Milton and Monk) and Katarina Chichester Kaner. This was followed with good double clears from Grace, Susanna, Suzannah, Katarina and Charlotte Murphy. Georgina Ambrose unfortunately had to pull out of the XC because George lost a shoe in the SJ. but this did not stop the team of Grace, Susanna Milton, Katarina and Georgina WINNING the event with Grace coming individual 2nd, Katarina 3rd and Susanna 4th, and the other team of Ellie, Suzannah Monk, Phoebe Fuller and Charlotte coming 4th, with Suzannah individual 2nd. Our 3 individuals, Hannah Murphy, Charlie CK and Katie Patrick also completed successfully.

HICKSTEAD QUALIFIER, Smith's Lawn, 28th June
Well done again to our brilliant new Open Showjumpers. The team of Tots Hanson, Harri Snelling and Ali Inman came 4th in the competition, just missing qualifiction for Hickstead, and 3rd in the Tack & Turnout

CHIDDINGFOLD FARMERS' ONE DAY EVENT, Stilemans, 21st June
Well done to Tots Hanson, who WON her Open Arena, and to Ali Inman who came 8th. Together with Laura Normand, the Open Team came 3rd.

Our 80cm and 90cm Teams at Rogate

CHIDDINGFOLD ONE DAY EVENT, Rogate, 7th June
We were represented by 21 members, over half of whom were placed - is that a record?! In the Level One, Hannah Ede and Luke Stent both came a brillliant 3rd and Rosie Jameson came 5th. The team (including Rosie Meadows) came 3rd. Holly Partridge, riding as an individual in her first One Day Event came a fantastic 4th. In the Level 2, Francesca Vallini scored yet another confident win, with Florice Cole- Fontayn coming 4th, the team (including Annie Murphy and Megan Brown) finishing 4th. Grace Lloyd Jones and Ellie Lloyd Jones both came 2nd, Grace having an unbelievable Best Dressage score of 12.5, in an arena where others scored in the 30s and 40s. Susanna Monk came 6th. Chris Milton also had a great dressage of 17.9, but had to withdraw in the SJ. In the Level 3, Katarina Chichester Kaner came 7th and Leah Peatroy came 5th. Very well done to all!

GARTH HUNT ONE DAY EVENT, Smith's Lawn, 31st May
Our Open team came 3rd, a really good result as this was the first time all of them, Ali, Anna and Tots, had competed at this height for Pony Club eventing.   The show jumping was not an easy course, and the cross country was twisty and a lot of it through woods, definitely not a galloping course.  Individually, Anna came third in her arena, and Tots sixth in her arena.    Ali, who has been doing university exams, had not jumped his horse since the beginning of April until this week, and would have been well placed in any other arena with his good score.   

AREA MOUNTED GAMES, Eashing Farm, 30th May
Hannah Ede, Olivia Leaning, Grace Jelley and Luke and Giselle Stent came 3rd in the tack and turnout and 4th in the competition. They all sparkled, as can be seen above!!

Our 2nd Placed Mini SJ Team at Cowdray with
Francesca on Malibu Individual 2nd

Open Team at Cowdray - Sadly for Ali, the Aston Martin
was not the prize!

COWDRAY SHOW JUMPING, 28th May
Ali Inman, Harri Snelling and Anna Lawson came 2nd in the Open Teams. This was a really brilliant result as not only was this a new height for all of them, but they were a team of just three - they were superstars! The course was a very full up, twisty, technical course, on a sloping field, and to come second was a really good achievement. Anna, on her 14h pony Indian Princess, came 4th in the warm up class, and in the team event, with the second round at 3'9", she came a brilliant and confident individual 2nd. Our Mini Team of Luke Stent, Bertie Cole-Fontayn and Hannah Ede were ably led by Francesca Vallini. They all rode for their lives and came a very well deserved 2nd in the team competition. Francesca also rode beautifully to come 2nd in the Individual Class on the great Malibu. Well done all of you: your turnout was immaculate, you rode with magnificent style and were a great credit to your Pony Club and to your supporters. The Novice team of Leah Peatroy, Katie Patrick, Grace and Ellie Lloyd-Jones tackled their difficult course well. Two rounds were required from each member with Grace, Ellie and Katie producing at least one super clear each. It was fantastic to have to have all this new talent to add to the novice teams and also was a wonderful opportunity to meet new members and make new friends for the girls and the mums.

INTER AREA TETRATHLON, Stockland Lovell, 27th May
Katarina Chichester Kaner was selected to make up the Area 13 team with 3 girls from other Branches in our Area and they WON this tough competition. Katarina also WON individually. Our Branch team of Katarina, Suzannah Monk and Indi Thompson came 8th and all achieved Personal Bests in their Swims. Our Tetrathletes really must be congratulated on their incredible successes and thanks also to their dedicated parents and particularly Tim and Daniela Chichester Kaner who do a huge amount of organising. We hear there may be a Parents Team at the South Berks Tetrathlon in October!!

GARTH SOUTH ONE DAY EVENT, Tweseldown, 24th May
Garth South set a really big challenge for the Novice teams at Tweseldown in the 90cm class. We started off well with Katarina CK, Georgina Ambrose and Christopher Milton all performing excellent dressage tests, and the well up to height SJ  course caused no problems for Phoebe Fuller, Georgina, Charlotte Murphy and Christopher. The XC course was huge and quite technical, and really took its toll on competitors in the class, but Georgina, Phoebe and Leah Peatroy flew round clear to help their team (plus Katarina) finish in 4th place, with Georgina finishing 2nd individually. Katie Patrick was the 3rd member of the other team and did really well for her first time out at this height, just coming unstuck at the water having cleared all the earlier technical fences.

NEW FOREST TET, 17th May
Katarina came a very good 1st, Suzannah came 7th with the Best Run medal and Charlotte came 12th.  The team came second.  All girls broke their Personal Bests

PETERSFIELD FRIENDLY 19th April/CHIDD FARMERS FRIENDLY 9th May
The first outing for our Junior mounted games team was on the 19th April.  Luke and Giselle Stent, Olivia Leaning and Hannah Ede found that their practice paid off, and they finished an extremely creditable 9th out of 16 teams.  On 9th May we had another good day - we entered a team in the 9 and under section, which was Giselle, Hannah, Olivia Leaning and Olivia Moriano.  The girls were fantastic, and came FIRST, winning three of their races outright!  The girls were then joined by Luke Stent to form our Junior team.  This competition was a lot tougher, with many older children, and teams from all over the south entered.  The Chiddingfold Farmers team rode very well, and managed to improve on their last performance by finishing in 8th place!  Special mention to Luke, for not making any mistakes AT ALL;  to Olivia Leaning for surviving an unexpected and extremely energetic 'bronco' from her pony Story, and then carrying on despite it;  to Olivia Moriano for coping very well with joining the team at the last minute and being so confident; to Giselle for motivating  Robin so well, and never complaining; and to Hannah for putting up with her Mum being the trainer, and keeping Parsley so calm, even though he wanted to gallop everywhere!

Best Chid Farmers Mini Individuals and Winning Mini Team

Best Chid Farmers Novice Individuals and Novice Teams

CHIDDINGFOLD FARMERS ONE DAY EVENT, Coombelands, 3rd May
Our members had a very good day! In the Minis, Florice Cole-Fontayn and Francesca Vallini both came 2nd in their arenas, Annie Murphy came 4th and Hannah Ede came 7th. The team WON! Tamara Chiltern-Hunt went HC but had a very good score which would have earned her a place in the class. In the Novices, Phoebe Fuller and Katarina Chichester Kaner came 2nd, Susanna Milton came 3rd, Susannah Monk, Georgina Ambrose and Leah Peatroy came 4th and Ellie Lloyd Jones came 5th. The team of Katarina, Georgina, Leah and Chris Milton came 2nd and the team of Susanna, Phoebe, Anna Passmore and Hannah Murphy came 5th.

MID SURREY TET, Walton on the Hill, 26th April
Indi Thompson did the full tet and came 3rd overall and Katarina Chichester Kaner and Charlotte Murphy did the tri part HC and did very well - Katarina got the best shoot of 940.  

3rd Placed Mini Mini Team & Novices at Bisley ODE

BISLEY ONE DAY EVENT, Dunstall Green, 19th April
The first ODE of the season was taken on with great enthusiasm by our Minis and their supporters.  The Mini Mini team (11 and under) started the day brilliantly at their first ever proper ODE: Rosie Meadows on Mighty Mouse, Hannah Ede on Parsley III, Luke Stent on Little Lightning and Rosie Jameson on Ziggy all rode their hearts out and came a fantastic 3rd, while Rosie J was 6th individually.  The Mini team of Florice Cole-Fontayn on Conker, Francesca Vallini on Malibu, Annie Murphy on Rupert and Tamara Chiltern-Hunt on Prince have matured hugely since last season and rode very well to WIN their competition with great style and composure. Tamara was 4th in her section, Annie 2nd in hers and Francesca and Florice WON theirs respectively.  They pipped a mixed Novice/Mini Team of Charlotte Murphy on Guinness, Julia Normand on Jack and Ellie LLoyd-Jones on Kilcarroll Lad into second place.  Congratulations to Julia on coming 4th individually, Charlotte 3rd and Ellie 2nd. Following on from the successes of our mini teams, our novice teams of Phoebe Fuller, Christopher Milton, Lilli Meadows, Georgina Ambrose, Leah Peatroy, Katarina Chichester-Kaner, Hannah Lewis and Suzannah Monk had a really good day - albeit a long one! Georgina set a very high standard by performing a stunning 21.4 dressage test. The show jumping went well for most, but unfortunately George decided to remind Georgina that horses are great levellers!. Everyone set off round the quite demanding cross country course with real determination and 6 of them went clear. Final results eventually came out late into the evening with good results individually for Katarina 2nd, Lilli 4th, Georgina 4th, Christopher 4th, Suzannah 8th and the Blue Team of Lilli, Phoebe, Christopher and Georgina coming 4th. Well done to everyone - a brilliant start to the season.

3rd Placed Mini Mini Team & 6th Placed Novice Team at Bisley SJ

BISLEY SHOWJUMPING, Dunstall Green, 29th March
The Novice Team of Hannah Lewis, Arthur Cole-Fontayn and Georgina Ambrose all rode well and showed great improvement in their second rounds to come 6th.  The Minis fielded a Mini Mini Team of  Giselle Stent, Holly Partridge, Hannah Cobb and Vicky Cobb and a Mini Team of Rebecca Lewis, Bertie Cole-Fontayn, Rosie Meadows and Francesca Vallini.  It was the first time the Mini Minis had had an outing at this level: they did fantastically well with a perfect jump off ridden by Holly and Bayley to come 3rd.  The Mini Team all rode really well, but were just out of the places - well done to Bertie and Conker, also on their first outing at this level, for their fabulous double clear.

Our brilliant Area Quiz Teams

AREA QUIZ AND HORSE & PONY CARE, Isle of Wight, 1st March - Chiddingfold Farmers had an absolutely fantastic day! In the Horseman's Quiz, our team of Rebecca Brown, Evie Crosdil, Katarina Chichester Kaner and Megan Atkin came 1st, qualifying for the Quiz Championships at Moreton Morrell and our team of Chris Milton, Charlie Chichester Kaner, Megan Brown and Luke Stent came 2nd. In the Senior H&P Care, our Team of Chloe Collins, Ella Sparkes and Rebecca Brown came 1st and qualified for the Pony Club Championships and Chris Milton, Charlie Chichester Kaner and Evie Crosdil came 3rd. Our Junior H&P Team of Megan Brown, Katarina Chichester Kaner and Rosie Jameson also came 6th. Congratulations to all who travelled over there and particular thanks to Kathy Merrick for her fantastic training as always.

Major Novice & Minor Novice SJ Teams, Sands Farm March 09

SURREY UNION PC SJ, Sands Farm, 14th & 15th March - In the Minor Novice event the team of Katarina CK, Suzannah Monk & Charlotte Murphy all jumped clear to put them through to the Jump Off where they finished 6th, and the Major Novice team of Phoebe Fuller, Georgina Ambrose and Charlie CK went through with 4 faults to the JO and came 5th. Katarina also came 5th and Georgina 10th individually. In the Minis, the team was Francesca Vallini (Malibu), Megan Brown (Dino), Hannah Ede (Parsley), Rebecca Lewis (Cotty).  Beautiful sun started us off to a good day, with plenty of big smiles. We all had a good warm up round, the team then had a good course walk which was made up of some good questions to start the season, plenty of turns and doubles not to forget the coloureds. It is always nice to hear the more confident older children helping the others!  All the girls rode a super first round, with the Panthers getting their three clears to qualify for the jump-off, in which all 4 members were required to jump off. We had a few nerves but as ever the team all got together to spur each other on.  We had some lovely quick and clear rounds (most of which had ..... some ...... control!!).  Unfortunately not quite quick enough - we were beaten into fourth place but it was very tight with only 4 seconds between us and the winners.  Well done - a really super day out. Give your ponies a good pat for a really good job!

Novice SJ Team, Sands Farm Feb 09

CRAWLEY & HORSHAM SJ, Sands Farm, 17th & 18th February - We were well represented at this very popular competition. Our Mini Lions (Briony Pearson, Megan Brown, Luke Stent and Rosie Meadows) came 6th out of 18 teams, with our Mini Tigers (Tamara Chiltern-Hunt, Moses and Goldie Fiddian-Green and Hannah Ede) not far behind. In the Novices, all seven of our members went clear in the individual class, with Katarina Chichester Kaner finishing 4th and in the team competition, our team of Christopher Milton, Georgina Ambrose, India Thompson and Phoebe Fuller came 5th. Our other team of Katarina and Charlie Chichester Kaner and Susanna Milton finished on just 4 faults. In the Intermediates, Louise Normand was 7th and Laura Normand was 8th in the warmup class and our Blue team of Louise Normand, Emily Stovold, Anna Lawson came 3rd. Particular congratulations to Anna for going triple clear in her first Intermediate Team competition.

Ardingly, 2nd January - The Novices braved the arctic conditions to compete in the 2'9 teams show jumping event. In the scurry all 4 team members went clear - a great start! In the team event, Georgina Ambrose had a lovely clear round on George. Leah Peatroy followed on Tiger Lily with a very unlucky pole - the second part of the double which caught a number of competitors out. Charlie Chichester-Kaner on Rory had two poles, but India Thompson on Tetley finished on another lovely clear. All four team members went at a cracking pace which meant they were the fastest "4 faults team", finishing 5th out of 21 teams. A great start to the year - well done you four!

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CRAWLEY & HORSHAM Show Jumping, Sands Farm, 6/12/08
Our two Mini teams of the CFPC Lions (Megan Brown, Briony Pearson, Francesca Vallini and Marigold Fiddian-Green) and the CFPC Tigers (Rosie Meadows, Rebecca Lewis, Luke Stent and Moses Fiddian-Green) did fantastically well. The Lions WON the team competition and the Tigers came fifth. In the Individual warm up competition, Francesca came 2nd, Briony 3rd and Luke 8th. Our Novice team of Lilli Meadows, Georgina Ambrose,Christopher Milton and India Thompson had a very successful day. All jumped clear in the first round and Christopher was voted in to do the jump off against 5 other teams. He and Looby Loo rose to the occasion and did a fantastic fast clear and the team claimed 2nd place.

SOUTH BERKS Triathlon 23/11/08
The team did really well on Sunday and came 3rd, having been beaten by an all boy team for 2nd. In it was Charlie, Charlotte and Indie. Charlie came 3rd individually, Indie got best run and came 4th individually. However Susannah and Katarina were both unfortunately injured, so it was a very small team.

COBHAM SJ, Sands Farm 20/10/08
Our Novice team of Christopher Milton, Anna von R, Madeleine Iafrate and Georgina Ambrose came 5th after having to do the jump off for places, with only 1 team having finished on no penalties. The plastic ducks in the water tray caused a lot of trouble! The other team of Imogen, Lilly and Leah completed but finished out of the placings. Well done everyone.

CFPC Tetrathlon 19/10/08
Charlie Chichester Kaner came first and won a cup for the best Junior in Area 13. Our team of Katarina Chichester Kaner, Indie Thompson, Suzannah Monk and Hannah Lewis also won! Individual placings were: Katarina 2nd,  Indie Thompson 3rd, Hannah 5th and Suzannah 8th (with best run). It was Luke Stent's first tet and he came 9th.  The girls tri team came 5th, which was great since it was their first time together as a team and for some their first tri.  Indivudally Emma Harridge came 2nd with a best swim, Grace Jelley and Olivia Moriano both came 15th and Jess Harridge 13th - well done to them all.

GOODWOOD ODE, Iping 28/9/08
For once the sun shone and our novice team of Anna Von Radowitz, Christopher Milton, Georgina Ambrose and Felicity Sturgedid really well at the ODE at Iping on Sunday. The team came 2nd to the home team of Goodwood and Georgina came 2nd individually.

OLD SURREY & BURSTOW TETRATHLON 7/9/08
Despite a lorry breakdown which meant two of our team had to ride ponies they had never sat on before, our team WON by 849 points, with Charlie and Katarina Chichester-Kaner both coming a brilliant second individually, Charlotte Murphy 4th and Suzannah Monk 5th. Both Indie Thompson and Suzannah got the best run. 

SOUTHERN NOVICE CHAMPIONSHIPS, Bisley 31/8/08
Another wet day - who'd call this summer?! 5 Teams - 14 children and ponies, all performed very well at the Championships with excellent results.

The Horse Trials Team of Anna von Radowitz, Lilli Meadows, Georgina Ambrose and Madeleine Iafrate did a fantastic job, coming 3rd as a team, with Madeleine WINNING her section.

The Dressage team of Christopher Milton on Dougal, Charlotte Murphy, Ella Sparks and Arthur Cole-Fontayn came 2nd, with Christopher WINNING his arena and Charlotte 7th. The team of Emma Harridge, Leah Peatroy, Rebecca and Christopher on Looby Lou came 6th with Emma coming 5th.

The Show Jumpers - Christopher Milton, Alice Cross, Sarah Hodson, Livia Turnbull, Leah Peatroy, Arthur Cole-Fontayn and Rebecca found the first round rather tricky, but the 2nd round jumped much better with clears for Sarah and Livia, and both teams finished with 1 fault difference between the 2 teams - consistent if nothing else!! Well done to everyone, a fantastic climax to the season for the Novices!

SOUTHERN MINI CHAMPIONSHIPS, Lower Peake 29/8/08
Our two Dressage teams of Phoebe Fuller, Emma Harridge, Suzannah Monk and Megan Brown, and, Megan Atkin, Rosie Meadows, Lauren Gale and Giselle Stent all rode some very nice tests, with Emma coming 2nd in her arena, and Suzannah 7th in hers.

Our Horse Trials team of Florice Cole-Fontayn, Francesca Vallini, Annie Murphy and Briony Pearson all rode personal best dressage tests, thoroughly determined show jumping rounds and intelligently across country, on what was a very technical course.   Briony came 7th in her section and the team were 8th.

Our two Show Jumping teams of Phoebe Fuller, Megan Brown, Suzannah Monk and Emma Harridge, and, Matilda Agace, Luke Stent and Rosie Meadows showed us how it should be done, with Luke and Megan leading the way with two beautiful double clears.   Phoebe, Megan, Suzannah and Emma all jumped out of their skins and into the Jump Off of the top six teams. At the end of a fast and furious, and extremely noisy, Jump Off our team came in a very well deserved 3rd.

Congratulations to everyone, and a special "well done" to Megan A, Lauren, Giselle and Matilda who are all new to the Mini Squad

HH ODE, Rogate 24/8/08
Novice - Georgina Ambrose and Leah Peatroy completed just out of the placings, Christopher Milton came 3rd on Looby Loo and Lilli Meadows and Lance did extremely well in their first 3' 3" class, WINNING their section, with the best dressage score.

Mini - The day started very wet and soggy but the seniors were up first, and the sun came out for us which was great. The ground was pretty boggy and churned up but it didn't seem to upset our little lot who had a very succesful day out. Hannah Lewis came 8th, Emma Harridge came 4th, Annie Murphy came 4th and Francesca Vallini came 2nd

NATIONAL NOVICE CHAMPIONSHIPS, Cheshire 24/8/08
A fantastic result for Anna Lawson in the Show Jumping where she came 7th out of 54. Anna jumped double clear on Willow and then was the fastest 4 faulter in the jump off.

NATIONAL OPEN & INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS, Nottinghamshire 20/8/08
Our Senior Horse & Pony Care Team of Chloe Collins, Ella Sparks and Christopher Milton came a fantastic 3rd behind the third time title winners of Sandown Chase and close rival Atherstone Hunt. Our Junior team of Evie, Anna and Megan also competed and came 10th in a close fought competition.

In the Horse Trials our Open Individual Kate Harper had an unfortunate stop at the difficult water complex but was thrilled with her round after Marley's recovery from a fractured skull at last years Champs.

Our Intermediates all had fantastic clear XC rounds and our team of Louise Normand, Ali Inman, Hannah Murphy and Emily Stovold came 6th, with Louise coming 5th in her arena with a double clear and a good dressage score.

WELL DONE TO EVERYONE - IT WAS A BRILLIANT FEW DAYS

COWDRAY ODE 10/8/08
Mini - This was a really nice event and a really good first event for Luke, who did tremendously well. It was all very relaxed and we all had a great day out. Luke Stent 6th, Briony Pearson 3rd, Francesca Vallini 2nd, Megan Brown 8th

AREA SHOW JUMPING, BCA 3/8/08
Open - Charlotte Gray was our only representative and jumped two fantastic and beautifully ridden clear rounds.

Intermediate - It was not the best day for our team, although Louise Normand did jump clear in the first round!

Novice - Another long, wet day at Berkshire College! Our two teams were spotless and gleaming for the Tack and Turnout Competition - thanks for the hard work, you were a credit to the Pony Club. Neither team were placed in the competition but all riders rode well, and coped well with the conditions. Georgina Ambrose, Madeleine Iafrate and Anna Lawson went clear in the first round, and Anna von Radowitz & Anna Lawson went clear in the second, which meant that Anna Lawson was eligible for the jump off. Supported by a very enthusiastic crowd of Chidd Farmers we lived every second of her risky, but successful round that WON her the class, and the qualification for the Championships.

Mini - There was a mini competition at Area and although it was not a qualifier, it gave the minis a taste of a big competition. Emma Harridge jumped two lovely clear rounds on Billy.

AREA DRESSAGE, BCA 31/7/08
Open - Our team of Charlotte Gray, Katie Harper, Charlotte Wheeler and Anna Rickenberg finished 7th. We had some consistent placings, the best of which was Charlotte Gray who came 5th in both tests. Hannah Murphy as an individual also came 5th in the warmup, whilst in the Open test, Charlotte Wheeler came 5th and Anna Rickenberg came 6th. This is the first season of dressage for Anna's horse (a former showjumper) so she was very pleased with him.

Novice - Our two teams had a very successful day with team and individual places gained by 5 out of the 8 members. The team of Madeleine Iafrate, Anna Lawson, Lilli Meadows and Christopher Milton came 4th, with Madeleine coming equal 2nd in the Area qualifier and earning a place at the Championships. Chris was 2nd in the Warm-up test and 5th in the Novice Area test, Anna Lawson came 3rd in the warm-up. The team of Arthur Cole-Fontayn, Anna von Radowitz, Katarina Chichester-Kaner and Charlotte Murphy came 9th, with Katarina coming 8th in the Novice Area Test, Charlotte 4th in the Novice Area and 7th in the warm up test.

AREA HORSE TRIALS, BCA 20/7/08
Open - Our team of Katie Harper, Chloe Collins, Sam Dracott and Charlotte Wheeler also did really well, and came second. Normally the first and second placed teams qualify for the Championship but this year only the team placed first qualified, which was a real shame for our team. Katie qualified as an individual and will be going up to Derbyshire, so very well done to her.

Intermediate - Our team of Hannah Murphy, Emily Stovold, Louise and Laura Normand WON and have qualified for the Pony Club Championships in August in Derbyshire. Emily and Hannah both came 2nd in their arenas while Louise & Laura came 8th. Our other team of Kirsten Pressler (individual 4th), Ali Inman (ind 3rd) and Rachel Passmore (ind 5th) also did very well, and came 4th. Kirsten qualified for the Championships as an individual, and will be going up to Derbyshire as well. All seven riders got placed which is a fantastic result and they should be very proud of themselves and their horses.

Our Novices also did extremely well with Madeleine Iafrate WINNING her Arena on a fantastic dressage score of 24.3 and qualifying for Cheshire as an Individual. Evie Crosdil came 6th and Anna von Radowitz came 7th with their mixed team also coming 6th.