New Whip Rule – Effective Immediately

New Whip Rule – Effective Immediately There’s a new ruling regarding whips for all BRC jumping competitions, including the Area SJ Qualifier on 22nd / 23rd Feb at Lincomb. Whip & Spurs Ruling (effective 1 January 2020) Available to read here: https://www.britishshowjumping.co.uk/_files/whip%20&%20Spurs%20Ruling%20and%20Visual%20Guide,%20Jan%202020.pdf

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Area 18 Dressage

Area 18 Dressage Thank you to everyone who came to support us and volunteered their help, time and equipment at our first go at hosting an area 18 competition. We ran the area dressage at Aston Munslow on Sunday 14th July and it was a great success! We had 5 arenas and a total of 28 tests. There were 89 combinations, 10 people riding multiple horses and most people doing more than one test. As you can imagine this caused a bit of a logistical nightmare in sorting the times and running different tests in different arenas! Thankfully it didn’t rain and we managed to get the scores out in… Read More

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Area D2M & Showjumping

Area D2M & Showjumping Wow, well done LDRC!  Great results from the area D2M and showjumping today. Novice no points –  Karen James 3rd Lou Burns 8th Louise Killey 10th Novice with points –  Heather Blythe 2nd Novice pairs –  Heather & Lou 1st Wendy & Louise 3rd Elementary-  Izzy Harris 2nd  Natalie Canning 3rd Emma Marrs 4th Open Pairs –  Nat & Izzy 1st Everyone came home with a rosette which is always nice and we had two sets of pairs qualify for the champs!! Show jumping- Hayley, Isabel, Yvonne and Donna went to Evesham for the 80cm and from what I hear the course was not easy and they had a few poles here and there but all… Read More

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Summer Camp Report

Summer Camp Report Thanks to everybody that made our 1st RC camp a resounding success. Penny, the facilities were first class, Jon, Jonquil and Jane your instruction was great, Emma and Alexa your photos are fab, Heather, you spoilt us with the lunches and all of the RC committee you all worked hard to make it successful. I have a few camp rosettes left so if you didn’t collect one please contact me. I also have a size S polo shirt, please let me know if its yours. We have decided to give a prize to the member that rode well, improved and entered into the camp spirit. This wasn’t… Read More

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Results – Area Intermediate Dressage Qualifiers At Abbey Dressage

Lovely sunny day at Abbey dressage yesterday doing the area intermediate dressage qualifiers.Huge well to everybody who took part you all did a great job.Results are as followsP13Lou k 11th 68.27Kim 22nd 65.77Ros 7th 69.04 N28Pete 6th 68.54Wendy 25th 62.29Lou b 11th 67.50 N34Heather 24th 63.33Heather jack 26th 62.14Issy 4th 70.24 E42Lou b gambi 12th 66.72Julie Smith 15th 65.78Nat 8th 67.66 TeamsLadybirds 5thLeopards 8thLions 20th. Massive well done to you all xx

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How To Sync LDRC’s Calendar To Your Own

If you would like to sync LDRC’s event’s calendar to your own calendar follow these steps: Find “Add Calendar” Then choose “From URL” option and copy this link in full and paste it in: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/q9n2n2oh547ndroqvk2r02clps%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics?fbclid=IwAR2mGv-sVuAgkVD3nUevOeXl1tPiHRuwyGfwUde-8N9Mass8Al1qkFe9shc

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Marie Ryan Talk – Report

A huge thank you to Marie Ryan for an inspiring talk last night for LDRC on riding under pressure and strategies for conquering nerves. Members commented that Marie’s wise words related to non-riding situations such as managing work colleagues as well! We couldn’t have had such a successful evening without the generosity and fabulous food from Heather Blythe, thank you! We will be arranging some more clinic dates with Marie so watch out for announcements on FB and our web page.

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