FROM THE CHAIR
Hi everyone!
Hope all is going well for you this season, so far.
We still have a few of our Social Rides left, so get your entries in and I’ll see you there!
Associate Members please remember to prefix your membership number on entry forms with
“AM” and get your cards signed by the organiser of each ride.
Bethan needs articles for the next newsletter, so if you have any ride reports, for sale items etc
please e-mail Bethan at: bethan_emily@yahoo.co.uk or ring her on 01335 330208 before 1st September.
Any photos can be sent to Catherine Wheatcroft, preferably by e-mail: cmw@wheatcroft.info for
her to put on the Derbyshire website.
On a more serious note, you will find a list of helpers included in this newsletter, please check to see if your name is there.
As we have had so few volunteer helpers for our rides so far this season, we have been forced to
allocate members to the remainder of our rides. If your ride is not suitable for you, please
contact the organiser ASAP and choose another ride.
Remember, without helpers we can’t have rides, and without rides the Derbyshire Group could not
continue.
Jackie and Del

ED’S NOTE
Well, so far the season’s gone well for me and Rashiek. No eliminations yet (famous last words!)
and we’re both still alive so we must be doing something right! Summer’s upon us so we’ll all be
looking forward to sand, sea and sunburn (well, maybe not the sunburn but it happens to all of us).
It’s been nice to see people on rides and have a chat about the newsletter and other stuff. The
Shirley Ride’s coming up so I’ll be helping at that so I hope to see some of you there!
Bethan xxx

HELPERS ROTA – PLEASE READ
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTACT THE RIDE ORGANISER BEFORE THE RIDE
TO FIND OUT WHAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO, OR LET HER KNOW WHAT JOB YOU
WOULD PREFER.
WIRKSWORTH 3 AUGUST – Carol Curtis, Diane Gillings, Jessica Andrews, Josie Bennett, Mark
Bennett, Sheryl Cantrell, June Shaw, Fiona Walton

LONGDENDALE 6 SEPTEMBER – Maureen Lees, Lyndsey Pass, Clair Calvert, Christina Andrew,
Janie Firth

CARSINGTON 11 OCTOBER – Catherine Wheatcroft, Lesley Cantrill, Sarah Emery, Ruth
Chadbourne, Lois Blake, Megan Blake, Dawn Brookes, Nikki Fraser, Nicola France, Hannah
Goldstraw, Kath Goldstraw, Beverley Parker, Melanie Rhodes, Nicola Woodhead, Linda Allen, Emma Copsey, Alison Nixon, Jocelyn Russell

SHIPLEY PARK 26 October – Janet Thorncliff, Marion Nicholson, Aline Peat, Skye Peat, Kay
Counter, Carol Counter, Linda Brewell, Maxine Easey, Bryan Jones, Helen Hill, Kate Macdonald,
Toni Perry

If your name is on this list and you have already done your duty day, or are unable to do that
particular day, please contact either the ride organizer or Rachel Dennett so that we can adjust
the rota accordingly. Thanks.

NEWS FROM LINDUM
The “Peak Ponies” won the Team Spirit at
Lindum on Thursday 24 July in a hotly
contested race. The finish was one of the
closest ever with four teams going out on the
last leg within two minutes of each other
after completing 75 miles.
Team riders – First leg – Jessica Strong on
Sorhez Amir, second rider – Sarah Whiteley
on Phineus, third Janice Clare on Sassan,
fourth Flick Edmeston on Floriferouz.
Ruth Chadwick did the ride of her life to
come fourth out of 16 starters in the
Aerborn Lindum Spirit – 170 km over three
days in the blistering heat. Craig Chadwick
deserves a special mention in this paragraph
as he not only crewed Ruth for three days,
but was also Top chef d’equipe for the Team
Spirit on the Thursday – some people prefer their holidays to be a little less stressful Craig.
James Dickenson added to Derbyshire’s success by winning the top Junior Rider award, for best
results over all four days.
We hope to have full reports on member’s successes and experiences at Lindum in the next
newsletter as well as lots more photos.

PEAK DISTRICT RIDE REPORT
I think that Saturday 17 May must have been one of the coldest days of spring but we had plenty
of entries so there were lots of very shivery people standing around at the new venue. Life would also have been improved if the landowner had told the farmer who had rented the grazing that we were going to use it for our ride which may have stopped him fertilising it very vigorously the week before!

Another last-minute panic was the result of a phone call from Peak Park earlier in the week, just checking if I knew that approximately 200 marathon runners would be using the trail on the
Saturday as well as our horses… did I think there would be any problems! I can’t blame anybody
but myself for this as I had only informed the Peak Park at the last minute that our ride was
taking place whereas the runners had been booked for months.

After frantically consulting maps and trying to work out what times riders and runners would be
at various places, Trish and I managed to come up with a manageable solution. The route was
changed (yes… I know it was longer) and we sent everyone off half an hour later than usual and
anti-clockwise. I also dispatched Janice Clare to a major potential flash point up at Friden car
park (the start of the half marathon) where she exercised a mixture of charm and steely
determination and managed to keep everyone happy. I owe you for that one Janice.

We were also lucky enough to have lots of prizes on offer, courtesy of BETA. These included a
Janice Clare on Sassan (Darius) in the hot seat, waiting to set off, with chef d’equipe Craig synchronizing watches bridle, several bottles of Net-Tex electrolytes, half a dozen pairs of very desirable MacWet gloves and lots of vouchers for a new horse feed from the makers of Speedi-Beet.
We worked out the results by French Formula (at least Tracey Edge did whilst also managing to keep immaculate order in the secretary’s tent with the aid of Trish). Prizewinners in the various classes are underlined in the results below.

All of the helpers worked incredibly hard and I can’t thank them enough. The weather was damp,
misty and very cold, but everyone remained helpful and smiling… at least while I was watching.
Another plus point is that the re-surfacing of the trails which Peak Park had to carry out a couple
of years ago as a result of 4x4 and motorbike usage has now started to mellow a bit. Most of the loose stones have now been washed away or to the side of the tracks and several of the tracks
are now becoming grassed over again, at least in the middle, so by next year they should have
improved even more and should have become a lot more horse-friendly.

Hope to see lots of you again next year. Promise we will have our smiley vets again!!
Flick

PEAK DISTRICT RIDE RESULTS – Saturday 17 May 2008

68km Competitive Ride
Grade 1: Cascade Of Flame A J Hill 11.7kph
1 elimination and 2 retired

52km Competitive Ride
Grade 1: Elina Of Rushbank E H Dawson 12.0kph
Grade 3: King Of The Pippins P B Brown 12.1kph

52km Competitive Ride (Novice)
Grade 1: Alpha A Ings 11.3kph

42km Competitive Ride
Grade 2: Viche R Chadwick 12.2kph
Grade 3: Fly J Ivens 11.1kph
Razzmatazz C Curtis 10.5kph
Grade 4: Faleh L Reeves 10.2kph
completion: Bright Chance B A Cucchi 12.6kph
Moonshiner C Hutchinson 11.6kph

42km Competitive Ride (Novice)
Grade 1: Jo Mouse C Freear 9.8kph
Grade 2: Abissinia C Chadwick 12.2kph
Novah D Gillings 10.5kph
completion: Flying Colours E Ferguson 9.6kph
Rashiek Ibn Malik B Reeves 10.2kph

34km Competitive Ride
Grade 2: Aristotle Bay B Corcoran 11.5kph
Bashir Shamyr M Rhodes 11.5kph
Pillheath Royal Paddy M Corcoran 12.5kph
Vlacq Gilfae G Andrews 11.6kph
Grade 4: Hildith Dream Delight J Scott 10.0kph
Zhiwah P Guerin 11.5kph
completion: Capriole Roqueiro L Walters 10.7kph
Dorocina Zebedee A E Farley 11.5kph
1 elimination

34km Competitive Ride (Novice)
Grade 1: Aa Khalman Ibn Sabur L Else 10.0kph
Grade 2: Ansbacher J E Collins 10.0kph
Perfeq Pacha de Blaziet J Kendall 10.0kph
Grade 3: Khalduna Bint Kahraman D Bacon 10.0kph
Grade 4: Cwrtycadno Moon Princess J Doxey 10.6kph
completion: Aberllwyds Another S Higgins 10.0kph
Duke J Dickinson 10.6kph
Oliver Two L Walker 9.0kph
Saracan Gold C Else 10.0kph
Tara M Fielden 8.6kph


BAKEWELL RIDE TROPHY WINNERS
Top Open: Bridie Lydon-Towle on Culann

40k open: Caroline Atkinson on Mr Pink

Novice: Christine Freear on Joe Mouse

Junior/Young Rider: Charlotte Chadwick on Abissinia

I would like to thank all the helpers, at Bakewell, most of whom volunteered just a few days
before, Ian, the vet and Roger, the farrier who turns up every year, rain or shine (usually rain, but not this year!) and Adam, the vet, who stepped in three days before the ride! As well as all the riders, their crews and all others involved in making the ride such a success.
Looks like I'll have to organise it again next year!!
Jackie


BAKEWELL RESULTS – 15 July 2008
52km Competitive Ride
Grade 1: No 9 Culann B Lydon-Towle 11.7kph
No 7 Squire G Jones 11.5kph
Grade 4: No 10 Cs Clarion J E Welcher 10.0kph
No 1 Stella I L Benwell 10.0kph
completion: No 2 Dhani B A Cucchi 12.9kph

40km Competitive Ride
Grade 1: No 76 Ansbacher J E Collins 11.0kph
No 30 Bonnie Safira J Doxey 11.1kph
No 31 Jo Mouse C Freear 11.3kph
No 22 Oakthwaite Samara R L Atkinson 11.1kph
Grade 2: No 24 Cumbria Shalimar M E Beck 10.4kph
No 12 Mr Pink C Atkinson 12.0kph
No 21 Viche R Chadwick 11.4kph
Grade 3: No 27 Abissinia C Chadwick 11.4kph
No 11 Muharaam M Amies 11.9kph
No 4 Murtada B Elwell 11.8kph
No 17 St. Flannans Niamh G Hasberry 11.1kph
Grade 4: No 13 Aesthete Asefa J Bennett 10.8kph
No 20 Alderney Prince K Williams 11.9kph
No 26 Cwrtycadno Moon J Brown 11.1kph
Princess
No 19 Faleh J White 11.0kph
No 34 Itsy A Peat 9.3kph
No 77 Mustique Moniet B Parker 11.2kph
No 35 Rashiek Ibn Malik B Reeves 11.0kph
No 18 Solitaire's Star J Martin 12.0kph
Completion: No 15 Troy II R Butler 11.9kph
2 eliminations


ASHOVER RIDE POSTPONED
Unfortunately the Ashover Ride which was due to take place on 16 August has had to be
postponed due to Julie Brown moving house around that time. If the opportunity arises the ride will be held later in the year.


SHIPLEY PARK – CHANGE OF DATE
The Shipley Park ride date has been changed to Sunday 26 October because the Park had already
been booked on 19 October.


7 DERBYSHIRE RIDERS IN NW TEAM AT LUDLOW
Derbyshire are well represented in the Inter-Regional championships which will take place at
Ludlow on the first weekend in August. The 7 who have been selected to take part are Annette
Masterson, Ann Harrison, Brett Corcoran, Molly Corcoran, Melanie Rhodes, Bethan Reeves and Kay Counter. Flick Edmeston and Pat Guerin are joint chefs and will travel down on Friday. We hope to run a full report in the next newsletter.


SILLY HORSE LAWS
• It's illegal in Marion, South Carolina, to tickle a female under her chin with a feather
duster to get her attention while she's riding a horse.
• In New York City, it is illegal to open or close an umbrella in the presence of a horse.
• It is illegal to fish from horseback in Washington D.C, Colorado, and Utah.
Tennessee prohibits riders from lassoing fish.
• A British law states that an Englishman must not sell a horse to a Scotsman.
• Horses are required to wear hats in hot weather in Rasario, Argentina.
• In Guernee, Illinois, it is illegal for women weighing more than 200 pounds to ride
horses in shorts.
• In Kentucky, it is illegal for a woman to appear in a bathing suit on a highway unless she
is escorted by at least two police officers; armed with a club; or lighter than 90
pounds or heavier than 200 pounds. The ordinance also specifically exempts female
horses from such restrictions.
• In London, England, law required taxi drivers to carry a bale of hay on top of their
cabs to feed their horses. The law was in force until 1976.
• In Raton, New Mexico, it is illegal for a woman to ride horseback down a public street
with a kimono on.
• A misworded ordinance in Wolf Point, Montana: "No horse shall be allowed in public
without its owner wearing a halter."
• In Omega, New Mexico, every woman must "be found to be wearing a corset" when
riding a horse in public. A doctor is required to inspect each woman to make sure that
she is complying with the law.
• Pennsylvania law states: “Any motorist who sights a team of horses coming toward him
must pull well off the road, cover his car with a blanket or canvas that blends with the
countryside, and let the horses pass. If the horses appear skittish, the motorist must
take his car apart, piece by piece, and hide it under the nearest bushes.”
• In Hartsville, Illinois, you can be arrested for riding an ugly horse.
• In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs must
have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.
• Pattonsburg, Missouri, Revised Ordinances, 1884: "No person shall hallo, shout, bawl,
scream, use profane language, dance, sing, whoop, quarrel, or make any unusual noise or
sound in such manner as to disturb a horse."
• Marshalltown, Iowa, it is against the law for a horse to eat a fire hydrant.

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