Home Farm Equestrian Centre

We thank all competitors who competed at our venue today, which all went well and to time. Today we would like to feature Tina Price who we nickname ‘Marathon Woman’ as she owns at least 10 horses and today she competed on three of her horses and did six tests.  Tina competed on her horses ‘Ghilley’, ‘Bo’ and ‘Cheeky’ and we show a picture below of her in action in Class 3 on her horse – Cheeky.

We hope all who attended our show jumping competion on the 18th March found it challenging especially with the two double sets of jumps which were not for the faint hearted.  We provide the results below and look forward to seeing you all again: Results from Hartpury Qualifier Show Jumping Competition held on Sunday 18th March 2012 Class 1  2’0-2’3 Place Rider Horse 1st Megan Tisshaw Stroodorps Fuliette 2nd Ellie Hall Star 3rd Bethan Doel Billy 4th Libby O’Brian Southern Rose 5th Rosie Williams Gaoth 6th Sally Ingram Twinkel   Class 2  2’3-2’6 Place Rider Horse 1st Amelia Williams Copper J 2nd Megan Tisshaw Stroodorps Fuliette 3rd Sally Ingram Twinkel 4th Lana Robinson Ebony 5th Libby O’Brian Southern Rose 6th Ellie Hall Star   Class 3 – 2’6-2’9 Place Rider Horse 1st Louise king Fred Astare 2nd Amelia Williams Copper J 3rd Megan Tisshaw Stroodorps Fuliette 4th Lana Robinson Ebony

We have just added this new page which will shortly be developed, and hope we will receive feedback from interested Parents.

We are pleased to advise that we have added some photographs to our Events Gallery taken at our ‘Hartpury College Qualifier’ competition, so have a look and see if one is of you! We intend doing this on a regular basis, but you need to attend to get a picture! We offer this as a free service and hope this will become popular with those photogenic riders in action! From this show we feature today Megan Tisshaw.  We were advised by her mother that Megan had a great day on her new pony, and what a lovely pony she is to, BUT she has an almost impossible name for Jilly to pronounce.  Poor Jilly had great fun with her trusted companion – Rachie, trying to pronounce the name ‘Stroodorps Fuliette’.  However, Jilly did try with varying degrees of success much to the amusement of Megan and her mum – Tara.

We are pleased to advise that we are now able to offer BHS Stage 1, 2 and 3 training programmes in 4 week blocks commencing from Thursday 17th May 2012 for Stage 1.  These courses are intended to be progressive through to Stage 3 between the hours of 9.30 am to 2.30pm, for one day a week. Please click on the link below to enable you to obtain further details of the course syllabus with T&C and print off as necessary. We are offering the use of our facilities to Becci Trower BHS1 (regd) UKCC 3 (generic) who will be the course instructor and will be providing all necessary course content, handouts and instruction. It is intended that the theory side of the syllabus will be carried out in our viewing gallery at our indoor arena, with stable management and other practical training being carried out at our stable yard

Remember the Octopus which predicted the winners of each round for the World Cup, well we received a call today from Radio 5 Live who were attending and featuring the 2012 Cheltenham Festival at the Race Course this week and decided they would contact a local equestrian centre so they could arrange for a horse or pony to predict winners for the Queen Mother Champion Chase today, the World Hurdle tomorrow and the Gold Cup on Friday.  The good news is that they chose us and Kauto Stone was chosen by our resident pony ‘Angus’ for today’s winner. Radio 5 Live will be mentioning our venue and the predicted winner each day, so listen out and you may be a winner! We thank Kevin Day (Presenter) and Emily Croydon from Radio 5 Live for approaching us and for Charlotte lending us the use of her pony, with assistance from Jackie

Well done everyone who attended today’s show and in particular Jenny Pitman who was riding her new horse Jeda, who came 1st in the Prelim 12 section and then 2nd in Prelim 18 on her debute.    The results were as follows: Saturday 10th March 2012  UNAFFILIATED NOVICE DRESSAGE  CLASS 1 Walk & Trot intro B (Children) JUDGE: Eileen O’Mahoney   Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number   Col   Mark   %   Place Led Poppy Poole Viking   60   144   62.6 1st Led Amy Poole Page   48   119   51.7 2nd Unled Kirby Warwicker Tiger Lilly   62   140   60.8 1st Unled Teagan Manning Cindy   58   130   56.5 2nd   Unaffiliated Dressage CLASS 2 Prelim 4 (Children) JUDGE: Eileen O’Mahoney   Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number   Col   Mark   %   Place Unled

HOME FARM EQUESTRIAN CENTRE Friday 9th March 2012 AFFILIATED DRESSAGE CLASS 1 Prelim 14 S/ SQ (Short Arena) JUDGE: Sue Duffy List 4 Bridle No Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number Col Mark % Place PrizeMoney 5 Q Sarah Barden(364738) Aztec Exclusive(53558) 52 157 65.4 1st 1st 1 Q Lisa Russell(241482) Baleno (47230) 52 153 63.7 2nd 6 Q Justine Speller(374741) Goss GreenHarlequin (54847) 46 138 57.5 3rd 2 Q Sally Ingram(255998) Shindig (46826) 44 135 56.2 4th 3 N/Q Becky Harris(364649) Oscar (R53545) 66 129 53.7 1st  CLASS 2 Novice 24S (Short Arena) JUDGE: Sue Duffy List 4 Bridle No Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number Col Mark % Place PrizeMoney 8 R Oliver Booth(332127) D.H.I Good Luck(38755) 64 183 70.3 1st 1st 7 R Val Danahar(148695) Poppy (44772) 60 169 65 2nd 5 R Sarah Barden(364738) Aztec Exclusive(53558) 59 168 64.6 3rd

We hope everyone who attended this fun filled event with the children, enjoyed themselves and it was lovely to see all the smiling faces from the grandparents, parents and the competing children.  The results were as follows: Results fromThe Mad March Hare Jumping fun day for under 16 year old’s held at Home Farm Equestrian Centre on Sunday 4th March 2012 Class 1  Cross Pole only Class (Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Toby Fry Smartie 2nd Oliver Fry Penny 3rd  James Fallon Cefn 4th Charlotte Hocken Mo Mo 5th Honore Thorn Gemma 6th Amy Bell Toby   Class 1  Cross Pole only Class (Un-Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Kayleigh Scrivens Poppy   Class 2 – 1’6 (Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Milly Baker Freddie 2nd Toby Fry Smartie 3rd Amy Bell Toby 4th Ruby Orenz Merlin    Class 2 – 1’6 (Un-Led) Place Rider Horse 1st Oliver Fry Penny 2nd Kayleigh

 Sunday 26th February 2012 UNAFFILIATED DRESSAGE CLASS 1 PRELIM 12 (Short Arena)  JUDGE: Eileen O’Mahoney Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number   Col   Mark   %   Place   H/Q O   Jane Felton Painswick Rebel Queen 48 156 62.4 1st YES O   Cara Sweeney   Sorya 48 151 60.4 2nd O   Jennie Lawrey   Drops of Jupiter 42 137 54.8 3rd R   Lucy Dickenson   Lucky Country 52 173 69.2 1st YES R   Suzanna Hext   Kilmana Fred 48 153 61.2 2nd R   Judy Rorison   Ashley 58 147 58.8 3rd R   Ashley Giles   Qwilhem 48 145 58 4th H/C   Gillian McDonald   Rania 54 160 64   H/C   H/C  UNAFFILIATED DRESSAGE CLASS 2 Prelim 14 (Short Arena)  JUDGE: Nicki Maddaford   Section Rider Name & Number Horse Name & Number   Col   Mark