Home Farm Equestrian Centre

Regrettably due to the extremely windy and wet conditions today, and in the interest of competitors safety, we have decided to cancel our unaffiliated dressage competition this evening. Though our venue is fully operational and our flood defenses are working correctly we are mindful of competitors travelling to us and strong wind and rain is forecast until after 7.00 pm tonight. For all the competitors who have entered the competition tonight we offer the following options regarding your entry fees:   .1 All entries paid by cheque will simply be ripped up after Monday 17th February unless we hear from you requesting us to transfer your entry to another forthcoming dressage competition. Our next unaffiliated dressage competitions will be held on Saturday 22nd February (Hartpury College Qualifier) and 19th March for evening dressage (Cricklands Qualifier). .2 All cash entries will be held pending instruction from the competitor .3 Entries made

We hope everyone enjoyed this competition which all went well and to time and it was nice to meet some new competitors at our venue. There was a high standard achieved again and we congratulate competitors for their effort and high standard of riding. We provide a copy of the results below which we had sent to British Dressage for reference, but ask if competitors could refer to the official BD web site for their results and their allocated points. Our next Affiliated shows will be held on Saturday 8th  March  where we are running tests from Novice to  Medium levels including D2M.  We also provide a schedule of this competition for information: Affiliated dressage competition results held 8.02.14 2014.03.08 Affiliated dressage schedule

We hope everyone enjoyed this show and congratulations to all those who were placed. We provide the results from this show below and look forward to seeing you all and others at our next children’s show  which will be the ‘The Mad March Hare’ Jumping Fun Day to be held on Sunday 2nd March:   The Juggling Squirrel Show Jumping Show Results held 2.02.14pdf   We also provide below the current table for Points gained by competitors for both the Led and Unled Sections. We congratulate in particular Rebecca McFarlane who leads  the ‘Led’ section and Millie Warner who leads the ‘Unled’ section. This information is also featured in our ‘Kids Corner:   Childrens show jumping points for February 2014 UNLED Section Childrens show jumping points for Feb 2014 LED Section To view photographs taken by the event photographer, please click on the following link http://www.erp-imaging.co.uk/gallery.aspx   We had a number of new competitors

Please use the following  link for the promotion of this event: http://toltinharmonyuk.wordpress.com/ In the UK there are less than 1000 Icelandic Horses, so their owners form quite a close community. They are a versatile, hardy breed of riding horse with the added bonus of extra gaits. Most horses walk, trot, canter/gallop. Icelandic’s can also Tolt (a smooth gait that can be done between walk and canter pace) and some can do flying pace as well! This event is new to the Icelandic community and it is essentially dressage for Icelandics with the participants being scored on how harmoniously they ride (much like in BD or as per the 7 scales of training). The main difference is that the tests are performed in Tolt which is unique to Icelandics (so sadly to take part you need to ride one)! The organiser  welcomes spectators who wish to find out more about these wonderful

Well another year has now passed and Jill and Gary would like to thank everyone who braived the weather to support our weekend of competions in celebration of  our 7th Anniversary, with Dressage and then Show Jumping on Sunday 26th January.  Both these competitions went very well and we awarded  cups for all the winners in both competitions. We list below all our winners along with the results from each competition for reference. We had taken some photographs of winners from the dressage competition which will be posted shortly. The winners for the Dressage Competition were as follows: –Lillie Northover -Ella Martin -Sarah Bilsby -Jenny Colbourne -Cordelia Marshall -Maddy Whelan -Katie Newland Our Show Jumping Winners were as follows: –Bathany Sallis -Rebecca McFarlane -Amy Baker -Rebecca McFarlane -Laura Bingham -Megan Partridge -Rosie Williams -Antonia Oxford -Amelia Williams The Results: Anniversary Dressage Competition results held 25.01.14 Anniversary Show Jumping Show Results

Depression Alliance ‘Horses helping people’ Self Help Group to be run in February. To ensure privacy/ confidentiality only those affected by Depression are invited to these groups. For further details contact Zeb on 07923 934457 or info@hhpda.co.uk  

We hope everyone enjoyed this competition which all went well and to time and it was nice to meet some new competitors at our venue. There was a high standard achieved and we congratulate competitors for their effort and high standard of riding. We provide a copy of the results below which we had sent to British Dressage for reference, but ask if competitors could refer to the official BD web site for their results and their allocated points. Our next Affiliated shows will be held on Saturday 8th  February  where we are running tests from Prelim to Advance Medium levels.  We also provide a schedule of this competition for information: Affiliated dressage results held _12.01.14 2014.02.08 Affiliated dressage schedule

We are pleased to offer a course of jumps for hire on the Friday before Clear Round Jumping on the first Saturday of the Month from 3.00 pm until 10.00 pm. Our hire rates remain the same as 2013 at £20 / hr for 2 horses with an extra £5 per horse.  

We hope everyone enjoyed this competition which went well and to time.  We look forward to seeing you all and others at our future competitions. The results from this competition are provided below and our next Unaffiliated Dressage competition will be held on Wednesday (evening) 12th February  (Cricklands Qualifier) and then Saturday 22nd February which will be a ‘Hartpury College’ Qualifier. HFEC Unaffiliated dressage competition results (Hartpury Qualifier) held 29.12.13

We are pleased to now offer Clear Round Jumping from 9.00 am until approx 12.00 Noon with last tickets sold around 11.30 am, on Saturday 1st February, 1st March and the 12th April 2014. The Jumps will be at varying heights to suit riders ability throughout the morning, though there will be grouping of jump heights depending on riders requests while attending.  Entries on the day and the cost is £3.50 / round. We will open our kitchen as a trial for our first event only on Saturday 1st February. If it is popular then we will continue to offer this service. The arena is then available for hire from approx 1.00 pm to 10.00 pm with the course of jumps laid out. Our hourly hire rate is £20 / hr for 2 riders with an additional £5 / hr for each additional rider.