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Due to us having to cancel our Anniversary show jumping competition on Sunday 20th January and the forecast of further snow from the 21st January we have decided to cancel our evening clear round jumping. However, the arena will be open for hire for flat-work or with 6 jumps provided. Our hire rates during daylight hours are: Flatwork with two horses – £15 / hour with additional £5 / hour per horse. Show jumping with two horses – £20 / hour with additional £5 / hour per horse.

Regrettably we have had to take the decision to postpone tomorrow’s unaffiliated dressage competition and this Sunday’s show jumping competition. This is due to heavy snowfall received from 7.00 am today (18.01.13) along with the weather forecast for further snowfall during Saturday. We therefore, will offer the following: .1 Our Anniversary show will be transferred to our next programmed unaffiliated dressage competition to be held on Saturday 23rd February. The dressage tests for this competition will remain as intended for this competition other than Class 6 which will merge with class 7 and be one Pic & Mix Class incorporating Elementary 42 and 44 along with Medium 63 and 71. The winner will be the competitor with the highest percentage obtained between the four tests. By providing 6 classes we are then able to award our Anniversary trophies to the winners in each class section, as intended at our original Anniversary

We are often asked by riders whether we could provide lower jump heights at our competitions to help the more Novice riders. We have considered these requests and are pleased to advise everyone that we have from the 17th February incorporated ‘Cross Pole’, 1’9, and 2’0 classes to our popular Hartpury College Unaffiliated Competitions. Though riders will not be able to qualify at these lower levels it will give them the opportunity to compete at these jump height levels. We have also extended this opportunity to our Evening Show Jumping Competitions, by introducing a new height of 2’0 – 2’3 instead of 3’0 – 3’3 class. We hope riders will enjoy competing at these levels and further support our competitions. For assistance we have provided our latest schedules below for these events: Evening show jumping ‘Cricklands Qualifier’ – February-May_2013 NEW STARTER HEIGHTS Unaffiliated showjumping ‘Hartpury Qualifier’ – February_to_April_2013

We are pleased to confirm that our next series of Children’s Show Jumping Competitions and Points will commence from Sunday 3rd February and then on Sunday 3rd March, Sunday 7th April and finally on Sunday 26th May. Points will be allocated depending on attendance and success and those placed at the end of the series will be awarded a cup / medal. Our schedule for this series is now available under the ‘schedule download’ tab and we provide a copy below for assistance. We look forward to seeing you all at these events and hope both the children and parents have been practicing, especially under the ‘Led’ sections!! New Jumping Schedules for children from February – May 2013

We regularly receive requests to hire a full course of jumps and therefore, as from February 2013, we have changed our Programme to include Arena opening on Monday’s to allow a course of jumps from the weekend competition to be left available for hire. We do however, still need some time off and have therefore, decided that this will be on a Tuesday from 9.00 am until 3.00 pm, whereby  the arena will then be available for hire along with clear round jumping. Where we have clear round jumping from 5.30pm onwards, the arena will be available for hire with a course of jumps from 3.00 pm until 5.00pm only. Details will be available on our calendar web site for each relevant day. We have provided a copy of our new February & March Programmes under our ‘Schedule Download’ tab, but provide a copy below for assistance: HFEC February 2013

In order to hire our arena you have the following options: 1) You can book the arena immediately by phoning us direct and making a card payment. There would be an additional small charge of £1.00 (if under £50) for the card processing, but once paid this will guarantee your booking date and time. 2) You can also send your booking request by Post, stating what day and rough time you require the arena hire with an enclosed cheque made out to HFEC, and your contact details. We would then contact you to confirm your booking or agree any revised booking. We can no longer take a booking over the phone with NO payment, as we have experienced a number of people who have made a booking with no payment, and then cancel at the last minute, therefore not allowing others to get the date and time they require. Our

Well what a fun filled Gymkhana we all had and Father Christmas was very busy distributing presents, cups of tea and Poo Picking! But he hopes you all enjoyed the Gymkhana and his special thanks go out to all his happy elves, who were Jilly, Rachel, Kirsten, Kayley, Gema and in the kitchen Jackie and Maya all of who made it happen for Santa and all the competitors and Parents. Santa has asked for some photo’s to be provided which we have done below, but if you wish to see more then please visit Richard’s web site on the below link, who can provide you with your own pictures for a small charge. http://www.erp-imaging.co.uk/gallery.aspx We wish you all a lovely Christmas and enjoyable new year and look forward to seeing you all at future events we are running in the new year.  

We have now completed our  September to December 2012 series of points and we include below the points recently gained from our December competition. We look forward to seeing you all and others at our next children’s show which will be our Anniversary Show incorporating “OPEN’ sections from Class 4 (ie. both Adults & Children) to be held on Sunday 20th January 2013.  The final points for both led and unled sections are now provided below: Childrens show jumping points -DECEMBER-UNLED.Final_.2012 Children’s show jumping points-DECEMBER-_LED._Results.2012 Winners will receive a small cup and runners up to sixth place will receive a medal. Congratulations to everyone who competed and won the cups and medals, which will be available for collection at our Anniversary show. We will keep any uncollected items for future events. Further copies of these points will be provided on ‘Kids Corner’ so take a look! We provide a copy

Father Christmas has limited space in his sack, so he has asked if we could ask Parents who are bringing their children to this show to help him by bringing  a small present for their child.  If the present could be wrapped and clearly marked with the child’s name and handed into the office, then Gary & Jill and their helpers will store them until Father Christmas arrives. He is looking forward to seeing you all and hopefully there will also be some children and ponies in fancy dress (safe secure dress only) so he can view them all. Remember this show starts at approximatey 10.30 am and we provide a copy of the schedule below: Children Christmas Gymkhana Day held 16.12. 2012

Due to the death of Jill’s Mother on Friday 7th December we have closed the arena on Tuesday 18th December as her Mother will be buried on that day. Jill wishes to thank everyone who has sent to her their kind words of condolence at this sad time.