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Derbyshire EGB Newsletter Here is our Newsletter for February 2008. NEW VENUE FOR COMMITTEE MEETINGS The first Wednesday of every month at the Waterloo Pub, Taddington, on the A6. Meetings start at 8pm and usually last for between one and two hours. Members very welcome at all meetings. Refreshments provided. FROM THE CHAIR We had an excellent turnout at our annual awards evening on 12th January. Congratulations to all of you who received awards, and to those who didn’t, there’s always another year!. Good luck to everyone for the 2008 season! Our provisional rides list is included in this newsletter, but if anyone would like to suggest a venue/route for a new ride, please let one of the committee know, and we’ll provide our help and support. Please read the information about our helpers’ rota, and ring the organiser as soon as possible if you would like to help at a particular ride, otherwise you will be allocated one. Please bear in mind that some rides require more helpers than others, in particular the national rides. This is the time of year when our dedication is really tested. For many of us it means mucking out in the dark, only riding at weekends and only the occasional EGB ride to look forward to. We long for warmer drier weather – but don’t worry, spring is just around the corner, so hang on in there! Happy Riding! ED'S NOTE Hello everybody! As you might have guessed, I’m the new Editor! Well, this was usually the part where Flick said some stuff about the rides she’d done in the past month or two, but obviously I can’t do that because the last ride I did was Delamere Forest in September, which seems a VERY long time ago. Anyway I hope all you lot enjoyed last season as much as I did on Lettie, and hopefully this season will be just as good, especially now I have a big horse to ride on (everything seems big when you’re 12). By the way if you want to send me anything for the newsletter, my email is bethan_emily@yahoo.co.uk so I won’t have to pester my mum to forward stuff on to me. Bethan AWARDS EVENING The awards evening was on Saturday 12 January, and from what I know most of the Derbyshire riders were there. Anyway, without further ado (what does that mean?) here are the trophy winners! (And the second and third places, obviously, I couldn’t miss them out.) DERBYSHIRE TROPHY WINNERS 2007 Anvil Shield (Best horse & rider in their first season) Donnaway Trophy (Most points from pleasure and social rides run by Derbyshire Group – Competitive horses barred) Gyp Rag Trophy Countryside Trophy (Most points from pleasure and social rides – competitive horses barred) Summer Wine Cup (Top veteran rider) Keilan Trophy (Top veteran horse 15-20 years) Lara Trophy (Top veteran horse 21 years and over) Hoof Print Trophy (Top young rider 14 -21 years) Fox Trophy (Top junior rider 8 -13 years) Sher Khan Shield (Top unregistered horse or pony) Taylor Maid Trophy (Top homebred horse or pony) Jean Collins Tray (Intermediate horse and rider with the most points) Weatherby Trophy (Top unregistered Thoroughbred.) Gallop Trophy (Top pure bred registered arab) Broomriddings Trophy (Top registered part-bred arab) Starlight Trophy (Top mountain and moorland pony) Wallfield Trophy (Top pony 14”2hh and under) Rhua Trophy (Up to 10 Novice Rides) Longendale Trophy (Rides up to 50km) Bull’ith Thorn Shield Fearn Rose Bowl Baxter Trophy (Most Grade 1s) Ormond Trophy (Runner-up to Jack Walmsley Memorial Trophy) Jack Walmsley Memorial Trophy (Top Derbyshire rider – most points gained in all EGB rides including up to 4 charity rides) Top Pleasure and Social Riders 1-10 Top Competitive Riders 1-10 Distance Rosettes For 2007 160km 240km 320km 400km 480km 640km 800km As most of you know, my pony Lettie died just before Christmas. I’m not completely sure about what she died of, but I do know that it was some sort of cancer that started in her stomach and spread to her blood. If she hadn’t have been put down, then she wouldn’t have lived to see the New Year, but knowing that doesn’t make me feel any better. Lettie did lots of rides and won lots of awards, more awards than you could expect from a twenty-something Welsh X pony. Her very last long distance ride was Delamere Forest, and she did very well in that. Lettie was a lovely pony, and more than that, a lovely friend, and I’ll miss her terribly. No-one will replace Lettie, not even my new horse Rashiek, but she’ll still live inside me. REPORT ON THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CHRISTMAS RIDE By Caitlin Reeves Age 7 We went on the Nottinghamshire Christmas Ride just after Christmas. I rode on my new pony Poppy who’s a bay Icelandic and my Mummy led me and I had a Santa hat over my riding hat. My sister Lissie ride on her pony Sugar who’s a grey Welsh pony and Daddy led her and she had tinsel on her riding hat. Both Sugar and Poppy were very good and well-behaved, even when some riders came past us and one of the horses tried to kick Poppy. At the end of the ride Poppy stumbled on something but I didn’t fall off. After the ride me and Lissie get some pretty rosettes they were pink and blue then Lissie got some crisps and a drink and a KitKat. I really enjoyed my ride on Poppy and Lissie enjoyed her ride on Sugar. DERBYSHIRE SOCIAL RIDES At the Committee Meeting on the 6th February, we decided on the following dates for our social rides: Hope Valley on 8th March - Rachel Dennett Buxton on 27th April - Paula Lynam Shirley on 20th July - Linda Reeves Wirksworth on 3rd August - Jean Collins Ashover on 16th August - Julie Brown, Jenny Doxey Longdendale on 6th September - Rachel Dennett Shipley Park on 19th October - Carol Curtis FORTHCOMING RIDES 1st March - Hopwas Hop/Lichfield, Staffordshire - 32km CR - Steven Bates 07702038266 1st March - Cannock Chase, Staffordshire Sponsored ride in aid of Cancer Trust - 12 miles Ch - www.justgiving.com/cannockchasefunride 8th March - Hope Valley, Derbyshire - 20km SR - Entry Form enclosed 16th March - Kelstern/Louth, Lincolnshire - 64km CR - Jane Calvert 01472827397 29th March - Teggs Nose/Cheshire - 20km SR - John Illingworth 01625430584 30th March - Major Oak/Edwinstowe, Notts - 64km CR - Carol Burnell 07968592878 12th April - Haywood Oaks/Mansfield, Notts - 110km ER - Sue Broughton 01623408137 19th.20th April - Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire - Sat 31km NCR/Sun 81km CR - Chris Lamin & Bernard Pridmore 01949838266 27th April - Wirral Ride/Cheshire - 66km CR - Terry Madden 01352750847 27th April - Buxton/Derbyshire SR - Paula Lynam 01335390250 FOR SALE Connor Master 17.5 inch brown English Leather Saddle (Endurance GB with knee rolls) Adjustable tree Ifor Williams 510 (2x 17.2) green trailer, hardly used Ladies’ dark navy 100% wool hunt jacket, VGC size 12/14 Ladies’ Riding Club/Working Hunter Pychley tweed jacket (Derby House) VGC size 12/14 For more details contact Ann Pomfret 0161 320 9920 HELPING AT RIDES 2008 This year we are going to try a new method of producing the helper’s rota. Could you please look at the list of ride dates over the next couple of weeks and decide which ride you could help at. Remember, help does not have to be on the day(s); it could be marking or helping with ride paperwork. Once you have decided which ride suits you best, please let Rachel Dennett know, preferably by email rockfarmbandb@btinternet.com or by text 07780 670568 or by phone 01457861086 (before 9pm). A list will then be drawn up and placed on the EGB website in all future issues of the newsletter. If you do not let us know we will allocate you a ride. Anyone wishing to be eligible for trophies at the end of the year must help at at least one ride. You can claim the mileage on your ride record card for the ride you help at too.
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