British Riding Club Area 4

The 2 attachments are the list of duties that need to be covered at all the shows and a proposed list of which clubs will be responsible for running which event.

Club Job Rota 2012
jobs at shows

This system has worked well at the winter dressage and the winter SJ and will be implemented this year.
As an example at the summer SJ show at REC Northallerton and Eldwick are shown as the clubs that will organise and run the show. That means they will between them organise the office, putting up and taking down of all the arenas, organise arena parties etc. etc.

Please read them, look at what you have to do and then start to liaise with the other clubs and organise yourselves. I propose that at the meeting on Monday (30th Jan) we all agree which of the clubs takes on the role of the Point of Contact.

Can you also look at the job list to see if I have missed anything off. It may well be that we do not have to do all the jobs but it is best to have then shown ad then cross them off in the 1st instance for example REC always do the car parking.

Once your club has done that event (except when XC is involved when you will have to send 2 FJ for the duration) you will not be required to do another job this year.

There are a minimum of 2 clubs for each event so that the workload is shared and I think I have accounted for every club in the area. As the 1DE is going to be a very long day I have shown 5 clubs with ARea 2 assisting, Darrowby please note that I have put you down to help at the 1DE I know you helped at the winter dressage and hope that with this experience you will be of great assistance at this event.

Before anyone moans and says that they have to travel or that their membership is down on last year or that they can not ask their members to be there all day or X..Y…Z… please look at what you have to provide. If there are clubs that want to do a mutual swop then let me know, if your cub has a valid and genuine reason as to why you can not do the event please let me know.

I know that this is short notice for you to discuss it with your clubs committee but it is time to take some responsibility for the organisation of our qualifiers.

I already know that Silsden can not make the meeting but if there are any others will you let me know.

As of Dec this year it will be compulsory to start paying £1 per horse plus the travelling for the dressage judges, rather than put the entry fees up we need to look at ways of saving money. About 18 months ago 2 clubs did some in depth research into getting our own radios but we never went any further. I will resurrect their reports, cost them up and bring it to the meeting on Mon where we will make a definite decision whether to purchase.

Area 4 managed to obtain the 5 places for the Steward Training weekend, apparently it was over subscribed causing HQ to ballot, therefore Mary, Jann, Margaret, Sharon and myself will be attend the training the weekend after the indoor S.J. so if you want us to raise any topics then please let us know on Monday. Training in hat tagging will be the hot topic and how we will do it before the qualifiers might need to be discussed I think that between the 5 of us we may need to come to your club shows where we can tag them prior to the qualifiers as I think this will have a knock on event with the RC insurance, i.e. if you are running a club event and an accident occurs was the rider wearing a hat that was suitable.

Thanks and cheers Richard.

The hunter trial on Sun 18th March at Frickley seems to have caused a few enqs with myself and HQ…… hopefully this will help you explain it to your members:-

• This is a new team of 4 competition for 2012.
• AREA 4 will not be doing direct entry to the final but will hold a qualifier where 3 teams will qualify.
• this was agreed by the committee at one of the area meetings last year.
• NO prelim fee is required.
• Although not set in concrete I am looking at £55 a team (will agree this at the next meeting).
• there will be 2 courses a novice and an intermediate.
• 2 members will do the novice course and 2 members will do the intermediate course.
• Teams can consist of any combination of junior or senior members i.e. 4 seniors, or 3 juniors and 1 senior, or 2 seniors and 2 juniors etc…….
• I think we can cope with 52 teams during the day so in the first instance I suggest that we limit the number of teams to 3 per club and then if space accept additional entries if we have space, on a 1st come 1st served basis (will agree this at the next meeting).

Thanks and cheers Richard.

Hi
Happy New Year

I was just answering an email to a member and was wanting to remind her about the next area meeting, so I looked in the AGM mins and couldn’t see them. Great start to the new year!!
Anyway never mind, here are all next years meeting dates,

30th Jan
30th April
30th July
29th Oct (AGM)

Please remember we will be wanting to organise a list as to which club does what at the events this year, so please make sure your club is represented so you can have your say.
If you can’t make it please email Richard, Jann, Mary or me and let us know what your club would like to do.

See you soon.

Denise

Hi
As you know the area is running a combined training qualifier along with the show jumping at Bishop Burton in Feb.
Please see attached rules for the combined training qualifier, because they are not in the 2011 rulebook.
Each club may send a maximum of 1 junior and 1 senior team. The area entry fee is yet to be confirmed.
The combined training championship will be at the Festival of the Horse at Aston Le Walls.

For the show jumping, each club may send a max of 2 Junior and 2 Senior teams.
The show jumping championship is at Hartpury.
Also remember as stated in the AGM mins, there are optional qualifiers for Windsor Horse Show also running concurrently with the team jumping and the dressage part of the Combined training.
I hope this all makes sense. It is quite complicated, I hope I have made it clear. Please contact me if not. I will try and clarify, if I can’t do that, I am sure Mary will come to our rescue.
Close of Entries for both Prelim and Area is 3 weeks before, I make that 20th January 2012.

Denise
FestivaloftheHorseCombinedTrainingUpdate

Hi Please find enclosed the schedule for Bishop Burton on 12th Feb.
I am sorry but we feel that we have to limit the entries to 2 Senior and 2 Junior teams for the jumping and 1 Senior and 1 junior for the Combined Training.
This is a hard decision but to be able to finish on time, it is necessary.
If it makes it any easier, East Yorks (my club) have no Junior section and could quite happily have filled at least 2 teams for the combined training.
Hope to see you all there on a bright unseasonably warm day.

Denise
Bishop Burton 2012 Schedule

Eldwick riding club have just gone and won the SEIB BRC Quadrille final at Olympia! Fantastic!! Congratulations to all !! Piccys please xxxx Lisa

Please find attached the results from last Sundays competition!  Well done to all who managed to make it through the foggy grey mist!RESULTS20112011

Please click here for times Book1 revisd times

If you have any queries or problems please contact your OWN CLUB TEAM ORGANISER!!!

Thanks and cheers Richard

PLease click on the link to see the minutes Area 4AGMMins 24th Oct 2011

Morning all,

Congratulations to Jann Crossland our Vice Chairman.

It has just been confirmed that after being nominated earlier this year for the Leo Harris award she has been elected the winner.

Thanks to those who worked behind the scenes for all their work preparing and keeping the nomination a secret from Jann.

Please accept Area 4′s heartfelt congratulations it is well deserved.

Well done Jann.

Thanks and cheers Richard.
PS I am taking the Winter Dressage entries, prelim and area entries need to be received by Fri 28th Oct, so you could fetch them to the AGM on Mon 24th Oct.  Qualifying tests are P18 and N24.  Warm up tests are P10 or N30 and they will be £8.