Area Show Jumping

 

Nineteen Burghley members arrived at Flitteris Park bright and early for the area show jumping competition last Saturday, which was organised by the Cottesmore pony club this year.  All the horses and riders looked smart and the novice team of Lisa Reid, Zoe Andrew, Amy McPhail and Alice Turner were placed 5th in the tack and turnout competition!  The second novice team of Jake Webb, George Andew, Bethany Fitt and Charlie Parkin all went clear in the first round and Charlie jumped clear again in the second round, going through to the individual jump off.  She was drawn 4th to go so jumped a safe clear which put her into 16th place, not bad out of 160 riders!  The 1st novice team finished with a respectable score of 16 faults, with Lisa having the unenviable task of being the first to go.  This was a challenge for both rounds as the second round was jumped over the intermediate course.  Our 2 individuals were Katie Sutcliffe and Catherine Davies.

 

Special congratulations go to Jess Varley, who won the individual Intermediate competition and will represent our branch at the Championships on Monday 17th Aug.  Having jumped double clear in the 1st two rounds she rode a blinder in the jump off to clinch the class.  The intermediate team of Charlotte Adams, Harry Ladds, Stephi Reynolds and Jess finished the 1st round on a zero score but had to move to the Open course for their 2nd round.  This course had proved tricky for the Open teams and coursed quite a lot of problems to the intermediates.   Emily Henriques and Suzie Bliss rode as individuals, Suzie was very pleased with her horse as he stumbled after fence 1 in the 2nd round and lost a shoe, but completed the course with 8 faults.

 

The Open team of Rachel Spain, Claudia Kendall and Emily Lumb were the only team with 3 members instead of 4 which put them at a big disadvantage.

 

A huge thank you goes to Nikki Herbert, our team trainer, who walked all the courses with our riders and helped them in the warm-up over a very long day.