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NEWS FROM THE PEAK & FOREST AREA Peak and Forest awards held on Saturday 19th April 2008 HORSE AND RIDER COMBINATION Thomas
Irving Challenge Cup – Top Competitive Male The
Lady Anne Cavendish Bentinck Challenge Cup – Top
Competitive Female – presented by The Lady Anne
Cavendish Bentinck Wilkinson
Challenge Cup – Best Newcomer – presented
by Lisa Lawson of Wilkinson Young
Rider Trophy – rider aged between 13 and 21 on
1.1.07 Junior
Rider Trophy – rider aged under 12 on 1.1.07 HORSE AWARDS Top
Mare – Any Breed Top
Gelding – Any Breed Top
Arab – to be registered with AHS and open to pure
and part bred Showstoppers
Rosettes Top Native – pure and part bred to be
registered with relevant British Native Breed Society The
Tack Shack Top Registered Horse – any other breed
society Top
Unregistered Horse – any breed PLEASURE RIDE AWARDS The
Forestry Commission – Top Senior Pleasure Rider
– rider over 21 years The
Maurice Tilford Award -Top Junior Pleasure Rider –
rider aged under 12 on 1.1.07 Top
Lead Rein Pleasure Rider Top
Mare – any breed Top
Gelding – Any Breed The
Dales Pony Society Top Pure Bred Native – to be
registered with the relevant British Native Breed Society CWG
EQUI-CLUB Top Veteran Horse –presented by Linda
White and Susan Priest National Awards Results for Peak and Forest Members Hockenhall Trophy - Top Veteran Rider - Competitive and Pleasure miles 1st - Jean Collins - 260 miles Top Junior Pleasure Rider 1st
- Kier Davies - 88 miles Top Senior Pleasure Rider 1st - Angela Gotheridge - Star - 260 miles Competitive Mileage Only 1st - Barry Brewell - 353 miles The Solitaire Trophy - Top Lady - Compeitive and Pleasure mileage 1st - Angela Gotheridge - 522 miles Top Veteran - based upon competitive and pleasure classes with any rider 1st - Calypso - 202 miles Top Unregistered 3rd - Razzamatazz - 187 miles Top Registered - Other breeds 1st - Waterloo Lady - 353 miles Top Native 1st - Ansbacher - 146 miles Top Mare 1st - Waterloo Lady - 353 miles Aims and Objectives The Peak and Forest group is an independent group supported by Sport Endurance. Sport Endurance maintains and monitors a simple set of rules that are easy to follow. These rules can be viewed on the Sport Endurance website www.sportendurance.co.uk Our aims and objectives are to:
You may wonder what is involved in helping at rides and you may think that there is nothing you can help with, but you would be wrong. You can help mark a ride in the days before, therefore still being able to ride on the day and know which way you are going!! You can help on the day if you are not riding or your crew can help with, for example, car parking, vet writing/stewarding. Road crossing stewards/marshals are always essential and if you are Health & Safety or First Aid qualified you will be invaluable. Help is always needed by the secretary/organiser, even if you can only offer to field calls/enquiries on the days before. Then on the days after the ride there is the de-marking to be done – still an important job. So please do not think there is nothing that you can do or that your help will be refused. If you can help please contact the ride organiser. In return you will receive refreshments and a free pleasure ride voucher to be used at any Peak and Forest ride. More importantly you will receive the organisers undying gratitude. In addition to this all members of Sport Endurance will have the pleasure ride mileage credited to their cards. Members are reminded that they are required to help at a minimum of one ride each year to qualify for awards. A Guide to the Continental Formula Taking
inspiration from the French endurance scene, Sport
Endurance has adopted
the French Formula (renamed the Continental Formula for
use in the UK) as a method of calculating the rider’s
score based on their horse’s performance on that
day. The formula introduces an element of competition
not found in graded or set speed rides by rewarding rider
skill and horse fitness on a sliding scale. Placings
depend on their score calculated using the following
formula:- The partnership gaining the highest score is the winner and so on down the placings.
In the above example, horse 1 is the winner, horse 2 is second and horse 3 is third.
In this example, horse 3 is the winner, horse 2 is second and horse 1, despite being the fastest, is third, demonstrating that the skill comes in judging speed, terrain, weather and the horse’s recovery rates. The formula is used to determine placings in Limited and Free Speed rides. The concept is not entirely new in this country, having been used at different times and locations, although never properly absorbed or included in rules. This has as much to do with changing attitudes as anything else. Where promotion of Long Distance Riding - LDR - is concerned, in a sport top heavy with older riders and where juniors desperately need to be attracted, the formula will appeal to young riders who are often as competitive if not more so than adults. It removes the subjectivity of the grading system, and as a tool to help a rider look after his or her horse throughout a competition it’s unequalled – get your mount home in the best possible condition and get the best possible score. |
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