The High Fen Demo raised £385 for the Essex and Herts ait ambulance - so well done you generous lot and also a special thank you to Gloria for organising this, Nicola mangers for hosting us and Lynda and Eric Benton who kindly covered all the costs for the food at the demo.
This £385 is in addition to the £200 which we raised at the Quiz too earlier this year.
Read all about the High Fenners at the recent Horse Trials Championships 2024
High Fen Summer Demo and BBQ
High Fen members enjoyed an informative afternoon on Sat 17th. Aug at Kyloe Farm.
Heather Lilley introduced us to Working Equitation with an " Ease of Handling " demo.
This was followed by Louise Towers riding Okke Krol's horse "Alffie" with Okke guiding them through dressage movments from Elementary to Prix St.George.
For the finale Louise rode her own " Neville " to music at Adv Med level.
Greatful thanks to Nicola & Kurt Manders and all others who gave their time free of charge.
A special thank you to Lynda Benton and her husband Eric who provided ( free of charge ) a super BBQ assisted by their friend Jane. We also had Lynda's excellent homemade cakes and Pymms.
We were very pleased to raise £385.00 for Essex and Herts Air Ambulance.
Gloria Outten.
Norfolk Show ground 6th. July 2024.
The High Fen girls had a successful time at this venue over the weekend. Three teams competed at the B.R.C Dressage qualifier.
"Swifts" were Lizzie Horne, Zara Thain, Simone Money,and Shannon Stratton. Team placed 6th
"Wrens" were Zara Thain, Jackie Barrie, Lisa Sadler and Hannah Green. Team placed 4th
"swallows" Simone Money, Caroline Crowe, Sandra Bond and Penny Baker. Team placed 5th.
Fiona Gordon- Clarke on Clare competed in Pick a Test.
Tests were Med 61 and Adv Med 92 which she rode successfully in the pouring rain ! There was a real team spirit on the day despite the very unpleasant weather !
Addie Akers and her horse Smokey came up for a short Holiday and competed at the Norfolk Show jumping Club, she had a very successful time and WON both her class's.
The combined training qualifier was also held on the Sunday and High Fen put forward six individual competitors.
They were Ella Smith, Emily and Louise Clover, Jackie Barrie, Addie Akers and Amanda Ainsworth.
All had placings and Amanda WON the Prelim 7 and 80cm Jumping.
Our long standing committee member Louise Clover presents the charity SERV with a new motorbike, in memory of her much missed Husband Duncan, who sadly was lost at sea last year. Our raffle at the AGM has helped to donate towards SERV. Please visit their website to find out about the amazing work that they do, which Duncan was a part of. www.servc.org.uk
Arena Eventing Championships Report 2024
The Friday was an early start for Jo Dedross and Lucy Lou so they travelled down the night before and stayed over with Lisa Sadler and Clancy. Jo had a lovely round but unfortunately Lucy took a dislike to the water jump and stopped which was costly and put them out of the placings.
I travelled down with Sandra Bond and did the team helper role and was assigned the joker fence! It caused lots of problems during the afternoon and I’d say over half of the competitors had it down. There were over 100 riders in the senior 80 and the teams did a good job of getting through those numbers.
Sandra did a lovely SJ round and then just lost focus going into the second arena and stopped at fence 7 and then had the joker fence. Sadly the atmosphere got to Clancy too and he wasn’t feeling it resulting in them retiring so the pressure was on Louise and Simone. Louise had a great round within the time just clipping the joker fence and Simone also had the joker and 4flts in the SJ round. Despite there being no placings this time out everyone enjoyed the experience and venue and lots learnt
😊 Well done to all our riders 🤗
Denise
Area 14 Horse Trails 2024
A super day, very well organised by Finn Valley RC so lots of thanks to Julia Hicks and her Committee and an amazing day for our High Fenners - Well done to everyone who took part.
There were qualifications for Sandra Bond 1st place in the 80.
The 90 team (Simone, Claire, Kate and Fiona) in the team event with top ten placings for Simone and Claire.
The 100 was won by Laura Erith on Jet and qualifies for the champs and a 6th place on her second ride Mochi.
The 80 (purple team) narrowly missed out on qualification with a 2nd place (Maria and Natalie both 4th in their sections and Louise 7th)
The 80 (Green team) were 3rd with Sandra 1st, Jo 8th and Becky 10th.
The 70 team were 4th overall with top ten placings for Laura 6th and Addie 8th.
