Its been another busy weekend for club members. Our team at Kent Count Show jumped well - but not quite well enough to win this time. Maybe they felt it was unfair for Maidstone to win 3 times running...They came 7th of 13 teams so well done to Jo Cottee, Mel Jones and Jenny Hutchinson.

The Area 10 dressage held at Speedgate saw us fielding several teams with some excellent results..but still not quite any winners! 3 teams came 2nd, and several people surpassed their own expectations. For more details go to Results page.

We have an update on our Dressage Points Championship if you want to know how you are doing.

And finally a plea for help with our Ride for Life on September 19th- please contact Wendy Neath if you are free for a few hours.

July 4th 2010

Summer is well under way now - we seem to have gone from winter to high summer in one go with hard ground already an issue for some.

A new venture for the club was a weekend camp at Coldblow Farm on the hottest weekend of the year so far! Grat fun was had by all, and Kate is already planning next year. Our thanks to her for all the work she put in to this. One of our happy campers has written her account - check it out on Camp report.

On another hot day a few of us ventured out into the woods for one of our Club Social rides - read about it here

We have run teams at the Area 10 qualifiers in SJ at Felbridge,and Horse Trials at Borde Hill. Congratulations to our Open Horse Trials team who had a clean sweep of individual placings and so have qualified to go to the Nationals at Aston in August - we wish them luck. Read all about by clicking here.

Today was the third of our Dressage / combined Training shows attended by a good number of members and guests - results will be posted as soon as possible.

Our second Pink Ride wil take place on September 19th - schedules are now to be found on the Ride For Life page. Come along and lets try to raise even more for Cancer Research than last years total of over £5000. Even if you can't ride for whatever reason we do need stewards so please offer your help. Non - horsy assistants are also welcome, and we  offer a prize for the pinkest helper!

June 2nd  2010

We are well into the spring / summer season now, and at last the weather does finally seem to be on our side.

Our third dressage show ran well, and you will find the results on the results page.

We have a plea from the committee members who manage the various teams - please come forward and make yourselves known if you are interested . Details of who runs which teams are on the Contact us page, or if you check the diary you will find more info

May 2nd 2010

Rain at last! At least a chance to stay in and dry and watch Badminton XC day if you had nothing else planned...and think about the ground softening up at last.

Its been a busy month for the club, with the first summer season members dressage show attended by some new members - we hope they enjoyed themselves. Well done to those who notched up their first Championship points. Results are available on the Results page.

We sent teams to the Festival of the Horse qualifier at Redlands - for most it was the first attempt at this which combines a XC & SJ course. Whilst they didnt come back laden with rosettes, it was a learning curve.

We have also run TREC training - thanks to the Rillie family for a great day, and a fun quadrille from scratch for St Georges Day. Regular SJ training continued at Street Farm and Duckhurst

We only have 2 affliated Horse Trials a year in Kent; last weekend 2 days of competition ran at Nurstead near Meopham. One of our Committee members, Jenny Hutchinson, was placed 2nd in her BE100 [ Pre-novice] . This was her best result to date so well done to Jenny and Bailey. Jenny is also famous for her wonderful food at MDRC events!

April 8th 2010

We hope you are all out enjoying the sunshine while it lasts!

Unfortunately we have to cancel the XC training at Bull Farm this Sat 10th as their ground is still too wet. However Wed 14th April at Bonfleur should be OK, and there will be an additional earlier group if enough interest is shown.

Against the odds and trusting in the weather forecast we went ahead with the Fun Jumping Show at Street Farm on Easter Friday with an amended schedule to finish about 3 minutes before the rain hit us hard just before lunchtime! Great to see over 30 members and friends jumping well, and congratulations to our winners, especially those who had  their first ever go at Top Score and jumped the Joker at 3'6'! [ see Results page] Check the Reports page soon for a riders views on the day

Don't miss our Curry night next Tuesday and the next Dressage Show on Sat April 24th.

And of course lots of training every weekend - check the diary page!

March 28th  2010

We'd like to draw your attention to the revised date for this years Ride for Life - our Pink Ride! The date previously advertised has now been moved back 1 day to Sunday 18th September. All other details remain the same, and we hope to have schedules available soon. Another event of interest is Court Farm BHS TREC competition in June - schedule can be downloaded from Schedules page. And if you need training - check out Sunday April 18th on the diary page!

Our Dressage Test Training day on March 20th was a great success with lots of people commenting on how much they learnt in a friendly environment. [You can check out Jo Cottee's report on the News report page]  It was good to see Sam Underdown back on board after a long recovery from a  nasty broken leg  last September.

Meanwhile other members were out honing their XC skills at Chilham with Alex Hudson training -  so a busy weekend for the club with something for everyone!

The club is getting off to a great start to 2010 now that the weather has finally improved and we hope all our members are enjoying a little much needed sunshine!

Check out the diary for future training and events - in the next few weeks there is XC for novices and the more advanced, and dont forget the regular Sj clinics with Neil Boorman and Wendy Neath. The new season of members dressage shows started in February at Stilebridge and it was good to have a new  venue for our club - thank you Vanessa for welcoming us and to all of you who turned out before it had started to warm up!

Although we welcome non - members to these shows, it's only members who can clock up points towards the Club championship.

Remember - you have to be in it to win it!

And if you'd like to catch up with other members - why not come to our curry night in Burham on April 13th. All the details are in your newsletter [or look on the newsletter page here on the website] or check the diary page .

If you've never celebrated St George's day or done a quadrille from scratch then tick both off by coming to our Quadrille from scratch on Friday evening April 23rd - all info in newsletter as before.

Another new and exciting venture is our summer weekend camp - thanks to Kate for all her work on this - it will be fun.