2008 AREA 18 & BRC CHAMPIONSHIP DATES

Area 18 Qualifiers, BRC Championships & Other team competition dates

5th July Area 18 Dressage to Music – RDA Cheltenham (LVFRC)
13th July Area 18 Snr & Jnr Novice Dressage, Pairs, RT – Swanley (CERC)
20th July Area 18 Snr Open Dressage – West Littleton, near Bath (BkRC)
26/27th July Royal International Horse Show - Hickstead
27th July Area 18 Senior SJ & Style – Blackmore Park Rd, nr 3 Counties S’grnd, Malvern
8/10th August BRC Horse Trial Championships – Offchurch Bury, Warwickshire
6/7th September BRC Dressage/RT/Style/SJ Championships – Lincoln Showground
11/14th September Blenheim Horse Trials – Woodstock

AREA QUALIFIER - SHOW JUMPING & STYLE JUMPING
The final numbers for this event on Sunday 27th July at Blackmore Park Road, Malvern (next to 3 Counties Main Gate), mean that we are sending one Novice team and one Open individual, to compete at both show jumping and style jumping, as follows;
Novice Team: Michelle Rayleigh, Amy Griffin, Angie Handley, Clare Haley
Open Individual: Melaney Baker
I still need entry fees from some of you by 18th July please – cost is £21.00 per person. Don’t forget to take your fluvac certificates with you. Times will be displayed on the www.mhrc.co.uk website from Thursday 24 July onwards. Good luck to all of you, remember the juniors were placed at their qualifier – so have laid down a challenge for the seniors to get placed too!
Bev Townsend

HICKSTEAD – TEAMS OF THREE SHOW JUMPING
As the RIHS clashes with the Area 18 Show Jumping qualifier on 26/27th July we only have enough competitors to send one team this year, comprising of Amanda & Simon Atkinson and Karen Saunders – Good luck!
Bev Townsend

AREA NOVICE DRESSAGE, PAIRS & RIDING TESTS
This is on Sunday 13th July at Swanley. Team members are also scored as individuals and can qualify even if the team does not. The tests are as follows;
Novice Dressage – 4 riders x Prelim 13 (2006)
Pairs Dressage – BRC Pairs 4
Riding Test – 2 riders x BRC RT6 (2005), 2 riders x BRC RT8 (2005)

AREA OPEN & MEDIUM DRESSAGE
This is a week later, on Sunday 20th July at West Littleton, nr Junct 18 M4. Team members are scored as individuals so can qualify if the team does not. Tests are;
Open Dressage – 1 x Nov 20 (2007), 1x Nov 27 (2007), 1 x Nov 30 (2006), 1 x Elem 48 (2007)
Medium Dressage – Individuals only Med 64 (2006)
I still have a couple of spare places to make up teams of four, so please get in touch immediately if you can compete and haven't been in touch yet!
Sue Odom

BLENHEIM TEAM CHALLENGE
This year the organisers have changed the format from pure Show-jumping to a Derby style competition so that all riders will jump a course of show jumps plus some cross-country style fences. Riders 1 & 2 will compete in the morning over 8 - 10 show jumps leading onto 6 - 8 efforts over portable/fixed cross country fences. Riders 3 and 4 will compete over the same obstacles in the afternoon. The maximum height of obstacles will be 1.05m (3’ 6”) with maximum spread of 1.55m at base; however the majority of fences will not exceed 1.0m (3’ 3”) in height.
The SJ phase will have one double combination and must be jumped at a speed of 325m/minute. Competitors then go to the XC phase where the optimum time is based on 400m/minute. Rosettes will be awarded at the end of the day to all competitors who have completed both phases.
We have been invited to enter a team for this event and the new format will increase the number of teams competing there to 30, so I would really like to put forward a strong team. I will be ‘talent spotting’ at all our Members’ show jumping/Open Show as well as the Area events! If you would like to be considered, please let me know. We always have masses of supporters along with us at this event and I’m sure with the change in format, there will be even more to make it a very special day.
Bev Townsend