News 2010

IHDT 28th November Despite surrounding snow the Sparsholt venue was clear of anything icy apart from the biting wind which didn't let up all day. A slightly reduced entry due to people traveling from further a field and the results are on the Results page. With the reduced entry everyone was glad to get away before dark and head home for a welcome warm up.
AGM 20th November A new venue of the appropriately named White Horse Inn in Downton saw 40 members attend the AGM. After the business of agreeing the accounts and presenting the trophies (Details of winners will be in the next newsletter) the new committee members were welcomed to the committee. Andi Rutledge is the new club secretary and is joined on the committee by husband Alan, both founding members of the club and they were also joined by Anthony Cooper. This business proceedings were followed by some very good food and a game of killer skittles which was won by Steve Harbach and he donated the £32 prize money to Children in Need.
IHDT 24th October  The first indoors went off without a hitch and a full house of 20 competitors enjoyed Julias first cones course. There were many cries of come back Steve all is forgiven! many thank to all those that helped and the results are on the Results page
Merrist Wood IHDT 17th October Well done all WHHC members at Merrist Wood. Nicola Blandin 1st Novice Pony with Troy on a dressage score of 17.5!!! and Matt Were 2nd Open Horse on a Dressage score of 19.5!! 
2nd - 3rd October IHDT training. - Well all I can say is those of you that did not attend missed a great opportunity to get some great coaching from Di Hayes and Naomi Harbach and what you lost out on was the attendees gain as we got more time to practice and play.

Saturday started with Di walking everyone through the P&P test with plenty of time to ask questions and many of us found we had been driving elements wrongly so many areas for improvement. Those on foot benefited not only from the walk but being able to sit and listen to Di critique the 5 turnouts that drove the test. Once to practice and then a marked test. After lunch a cones course that included some awkward angles, a slalom and a step out was walked and then driven by the five turnouts again each getting a couple of drives and for those that had trouble with a particular element Di was great at coaching them until they got it right.

Sunday there were only 3 turnouts and one attendee on foot so we had plenty of time to play in the 2 obstacles in the morning and then after lunch we drove the obstacles in reverse with again great coaching from Naomi.

A big thank you from those of us that attended to Di and Naomi for their time and from Naomi for organising this and hopefully we can repeat this next year.

 

26th September A lovely day was had by the 9 turnouts that attended the drive and cones at Pitchers Farm , Farley. 

The weather was kind so the 5 mile route around Pitchers Farm and Anthony Coopers land was very enjoyable through fields and  woodland. We then had a practice round  around the cones course and then a second timed round. The winner was no Surprise with Di Hayes taking the red rosette with Troy. There were also a couple of obstacles to have a practice round which was really good for the couple of young novice ponies attending.

All in all a great day out and those that didn't attend missed a great drive and relaxed atmosphere to have a practice in

National Championships

Congratulations to all members who competed at the BHDTA National Championships. Once again this year we had some fantastic results from all classes across the board, with some being crowned champions! And how lovely that many of the club members were there to support and watch them throughout the event. 

In the novice horse class Matt Were was crowned champion with ‘Davinci’ and Pam Evans was 8th. In the open pony class Naomi Harbach took first place with ‘The Apple Tart’ with Nicola Blandin driving ‘Dabido’ a close 2nd and Cathy Willis driving ‘Saffron’ was 9th. Karen Scott Barrett was a very respectable 3rd in the open horse class. Alan Rutledge finished 4th with his pony pair in the open class. Sue Mayes driving her tandem of ponies was second and husband Derek was also second in the open horse pair’s class.

In addition to that Brenda May and Brian Evans were awarded the BHDTA supporters club 'Steward of the Year' award by chairman Tony Bache at the Windsor National Championships, they were gobsmacked and all those WHHC members at the presentation raised the roof with cheers of support.

AGM News The AGM will be held this year at the White Horse Inn, The Borough, Downton, Wiltshire.SP5 3LY. There will be the formal AGM proceedings, agenda and last years minutes will be in the September newsletter which will be followed by food and the normal killer skittles. We have the Stable Room to ourselves for the evening and it is a lovely country pub with superb food. 

We desperately need committee members, Jacquie through pressure of work is having to retire after a year as secretary and whjilst Sue will continue as Treasurer it will be as a non committee position so we need a Secretary and 3 committee members. Please if you would like to help the club survive fill in the nomination form with the next newsletter and send it to the Secretary.

Also if you have AOB for the AGM it must be submitted prior to the meeting by sending to jacquie.hodson@yahoo.co.uk or by post to Julia whose address is on the committee members page

The food needs to be pre-ordered  and cheques need to be sent to Sue Courtney, Clements Cottage , Larch Avenue,  Holbury, Hants, SO45 2PB. A form will be in the September Newsletter where you can select you food which will be £8.95 a head and the food is very good and very much worth it.

Choice of food will be £8.95 a head

Banger and Mash with Onion Gravy

Scampi and Chips with garden peas

Homemade Whitehorse Burger served with onion rings, bacon , chips and salad garnish ( my favourite and yummy)

Cajun CHicken Burger with Chips and Salad garnish

Penne Pasta with either Tomato and Basil sauce or wild mushroon sauce served with garlic bread.

25th April  Marion Frankland has kindly agreed to take over responsibility for the clubs merchandise. So if you want to purchase any of the very nice clothes on offer please contact her on  07836546587 after 2pm and she can arrange for them to be available at the next event. See the merchandise page for what's available.
Keysoe  Indoor Finals A huge congratulations to WHHC members and Wessex Area qualifiers at the Keysoe Finals. We hope you all had an enjoyable long weekend and are probably still recovering.

We had three champions crowned

Nicola Blandin overcame her illness over the weekend to become Open Pony Champions with Troy going on to be Reserve Supreme Champions and also coming 2nd in the evening challenge representing the Wessex Area

Matt Were  followed up his Novice win last year to become Intermediate Horse Champions with Da Vinci

Jo Sore appropriately won the Pony Pairs Championship winning the Snowy Cleaver Memorial Trophy

 

 

BRING YOUR BRA’S ALONG TO REDENHAM PARK HORSE DRIVING TRAILS

 BAG-A-BRA DAY - 27TH MAY 2010 -

Thank you for showing your support for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance and women in West Africa

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, as well as many women in West Africa , need your discarded bras please. HIOWAA work with a recycling company called ‘Bag it up’, who recycle donated clothes, which are processed and then sent to other countries for resale. HIOWAA receives payment in relation to the weight of clothing donated, which is then used to help maintain the service of the air ambulance across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight .

Bras are worth more money per tonne than most other textiles, this is because it takes a lot of bras to make up a tonne! We hasten to add though, please keep donating all other clothes, shoes and textiles into our charity textile banks. These are invaluable, and a sustainable source of income for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance

Recycling of bras is slightly different, as most of the donated bras are shipped to West Africa for resale to local women, at affordable prices.

The underwear gives women prestige and helps to raise their self-esteem, which are certainly very emotive reasons to dig into the bra drawer to find an unwanted bra or two!

We are asking companies, clubs and individuals to collect unwanted bras in the lead up to 27th May, and on the day itself, to deposit the bags of bras in your local Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance Recycling Banks (we can advise you of the nearest one to you if you would kindly supply us with your post code)

 Jill Thorpe

Mob: 07901 651663

3rd April 2010 The outdoor challenge was well supported by club members and some new faces. the weather wasn't really on our side and we had to endure some heavy showers and many returned rather muddy from the drive.

However every one seemed to enjoy themselves and it was a good start to the season. the results are on the results page and we hope to see everyone again at Redenham.

21st March 2010 So who is going to Keysoe?

 The league winners for each class from the best 3 out of 4 events are as follows:

Novice Pony David Bull  and his ever young mare and Patricia Caddy and Mickey both on 26 points and it looks like David is the one entered

Open Pony  Nicola Blandin and Troy on 30 points

Novice Horse Pam Evans on 30 points, sorry Pam dont know the name of your horse

Open Horse Caroline Douglas with Storming Norman on 25 points

Intermediate Horse Matt Were who finished the season with Da Vinci on 30 points

Horse tandems Annie Wilkinson with her French Cobs with 10 points

Junior Amber O'Neill with Sarah on 30 points

Team Julia Liles with her team of greys on 30 points

Pony Pairs Jo Sore with Buddy and DIckie on 30 points

Horse Pairs Karen Scott-Barrett with her PRE horses on 20 points

Good luck to all of you who choose to go.

16th March 2010 Congratulations to our Chairman Julia Crockford and hubby David on becoming Grandparents for the first time with the birth of Marshall Lee Butterworth who entered the world just after 4am on the 16th March weighing 8lb 1oz, mother and baby doing well.

Those of you who know Julia will know how excited she was about this event!

14th Feb 2010 The final event of the season went off very well with some challenging obstacles from Steve Lucas which caught out a lot of people with an unprecedented number of corrected errors of course plus a couple of eliminations.

A big thank you to all those who have helped along with our judges, Di Lucas, Jane Stuart, Paul Davis and Di Hayes for stepping in at the last minute at our last event.

Many thanks to those competitors who have emailed their thanks to the committee and we hope to see you all next year. The dates are provisionally booked as below so put them in your diary!

24th October 2010

28th November 2010

23rd January 2011

13th February 2011

13th March 2011

7th Feb 2010 If you are going to be competing at the Nationals at Redenham and West Overton you will have the chance to drive your dressage test at the end of the day after the clubs competition so that you can have a practise. To do this please let Brenda know this when entering so that you can be given an additional time for this test. 
New events overview page created to give first timers an idea of what to expect at club events can be found on the Events Diary Page.
Provisional dates for the 2010-2011 Indoors now on the Events Diary page.

Summer training is planned to be based on How to Improve your Driving horse from the ground. Venue , date and trainer to be announced soon but contact Naomi to register your interest.
A new event is provisionally planned for the Sunday 26th September. To be held in Farley Wilts.  this will be a fun day to relax at the end of the season. Events planned are a clear round cones, another outdoor challenge but not part of the series ,  a pleasure drive to be finished off with the normal WHHC BBQ where you bring your own meat and drink and the club provides the salads etc.

More details  will follow but put this date in your diary.
1st Feb 2010 Outdoor Challenge New event for the club to be held Saturday 3rd April at Tenantry Farm, Rockbourne. Run on the same lines as the World Cup Challenge  with a fast and furious dash against the clock round cones and obstacles with the fasted winning. This is part fo the qualifying series for the final to be held at the Nationals in September.

Or if this isnt to your taste, join up for an approx 7km drive round Tenantry farms course including the water complex. Details on the event diary, use the normal entry form £15 for the challenge or the drive or £25 for the two.
Jan 2010 All schedules for events for 2010 are on the Events diary page ready for you to download.

Please support the club and enter these events.

There should be something for everyone at all events with the option of a shortened marathon for the less fit and an inside out on the Sunday at West Overton