The Holderness Hunt Point-to-Point will be held at Dalton Park on Sunday 14th March.  The first race is due to be run at 1.30 pm and there are 107 entries for the 7 race card, with the biggest field being the confined race with 20 entries.  The last race, the Open Maiden race has been split at entry stage.

The postcode for satellite navigation is HU17 7PW and admission is £35 per car for the reserved car park, £25 per car for the non-reserved car park and single occupancy is £10 per car and £5 on foot.

9th Mar 2010

The British Horse Society has announced the nominations for this year’s BHS Queen’s Award for Equestrianism.  The Award, which is made on the recommendation of the Trustees of The British Horse Society, is "For Outstanding Services to Equestrianism".

Representatives from across the spectrum of equestrianism were invited to nominate one candidate each.  The nine nominations received (with nominating organisations in brackets) were as follows:

Stephen Clarke FBHS (British Dressage); Rosemary Barlow (British Eventing); Sydney Smith (British Horse Driving Trials Association); Jane Goldsmith (The British Horse Society); Ronnie Massarella (British Showjumping); John Hudson (Endurance GB); Dr Ernie Logan (BHS Ireland); Ernest McMillen MBE (The Pony Club); and Maggie Bradley (Riding for the Disabled Association).

8th Mar 2010

Darrowby and District RC is hosting a bitting clinic and demo at the GG Centre, Raskelf, York, North Yorks on Thursday 25th March between 7pm and 9 pm.  The talk will be by Elaine Sutcliffe of Whiterose Equestrian.  She will then do a demonstration using two horses with current problems. 

Elaine Sutcliffe is classically trained and has evented at 2-star level with her home-bred horse in just a loose ring bit and cavasson noseband. A holder of the Monty Roberts Preliminary Certificate of Horsemanship, she promotes "gadget free" enjoyable riding and horse handling.

She is BETA and Myler Accredited and stocks all makes of bits, including Sprenger and Neue Schule.  Her fittings take account of a horse’s conformation and temperament, often dramatically improving performance. Independent assessors in a 2009 study consistently rated horses bitted by Elaine above the same horses in their own bits.

Tickets are £8.00 for non-members and £6.00 for Darrowby RC members with a £2.00 surcharge on the door.

For tickets send cheque to Lydia Ebdon, Lund Farm, Easingwold, York  YO61 3PA

2nd Mar 2010

Incredibly feature-rich, the new Blue Chip website (www.bluechipfeed.com) is a multi-media online experience that offers a fantastic, user-friendly opportunity to share in the success of Blue Chip’s award winning feed balancers and supplements, enter great competitions and find out everything you ever wanted to know about Blue Chip.

Read all about Blue Chip’s scientifically researched and proven product range and discover how other owners have seen the amazing benefits of feeding Blue Chip to their horses and ponies. Check out why winning professional riders and trainers have chosen Blue Chip and get behind the scenes to learn about their feeding, management and training regimes - you can even share the experience with your friends using one of the easily accessible links to social networking and bookmarking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

2nd Mar 2010

Rob Hoekstra has been appointed as the World Class Performance Manager for Showjumping, with immediate effect.

Rob will be charged with leading the Showjumping Programme during the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games and will start to develop plans immediately for the 2010 season. At this stage it is not known whether Britain will be competing in the Promotional League or the Meydan FEI Nations Cup series.

An international show jumper, Rob has ridden at 5* level and represented Great Britain. He is also renowned as a successful trainer across Europe, with experience of coaching riders up to Olympic level.

1st Mar 2010

Joanne Ainsworth, from Rossendale, riding Up Date III and Eleni Murphy, from Preston, riding Del Fuego have qualified British Showjumping Business Partnership Winter Grade C Championship. The British Showjumping Business Partnership Winter Grade C Championship will take place at the British Open Show Jumping Championships on Friday 9^th April.

19th Feb 2010