Ripley Castle Draft Dressage Times
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Following the loss of our Escrick Park event in April
We have managed to schedule another event at Escrick Park on August 4th - 5th 2012.
The Arena Challenge scheduled for August 5th has been rescheduled to 29th July 2012.
The Novice qualifier lost at Escrick Park has been rescheduled to take place at
Nidd Hall on 23rd - 24th June2012.
Entry forms for both these events are now available to download on the website.
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Ripley Castle 2012
Fingers crossed for better weather in the next few days. The organisers have made several visits to the event site during the last few days and are happy that the ground conditions are suitable provided that we do not get significant amounts of heavy rain in run up to the event.
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UPDATE - at close of work on Thursday 17th ground conditions at Ripley are Good. Todays showers have not caused any worstening of conditions.
The Ripley water prior to receiving it's annual clean out!
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George Bowman coming to grief at Ashfields last weekend. All OK fortunately.
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We promised Alec Jeffrey that out of kindness we would not post video of his little misfortune at Ashfields
But we said nothing about posting the link!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEW14M1L4ZI&feature=youtu.be
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Steph and Tara on team GB!
Congratulations to our own Steph Milner and Tara Wilkinson who have been selected to represent Great Britain at the ICKD Junior World Trophy at Wiener Neustadt Austria on 11th - 15th July. There are 10 team members and 2 reserves. The team begin training at Ashfields in the near future.
Further information on
http://www.driving2012.com/englisch/Start.html
Good Luck girls we will all be rooting for you.
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Arena Challenge 06th May 2012
Tracey Squire overall winner Novice Class
Ross Wilkinson overall winner open class
An exciting first of our Arena Challenge competitions on Sunday resulted in a win for newcomer Tracey Squires in Novice Class.
A close fought final round between Ruth Bamforth and siblings Ross and Tara Wilkinson for the Open honours, resulted in Ross just taking the class from Ruth and Tara.
Our greatful thanks to Steve Hoyle and his team for their hard work in setting up and running this great new type of competition on behalf of NEDTL.
Results HERE
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Sponsored Drive raises £3201. 00
With almost all of the pledged money in the grand total of £3201.00 has been raised for the chosen charity
which this year is Spinal Research.
A huge thank you to all who took part and all who sponsored our drivers.
We feel sure that your generousity will go some way to helping this worthy cause.
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"ARENA CHALLENGE" - WHAT IS IT ?
A TIMED CHALLENGE DRIVING TWO OBSTACLES INTERSPERSED WITH TWELVE SETS
OF CONES IN A FLAT OUTDOOR ALL WEATHER ARENA, WITH LARGE WARM UP FACILITY.
THE FIRST ROUND CONSISTS OF ONE TRIAL (WARM UP ROUND NOT TIMED) AND ONE
TIMED ROUND. TIMES WILL BE POSTED ON NOTICE BOARD. THE SECOND DRIVE
BEING THE ACTUAL COMPETITION AND COMPETITORS WILL BE SEEDED FROM THE
FIRST ROUND, SLOWEST FIRST FASTEST LAST.
BASIC RULES
ONE SECOND = ONE PENALTY POINT
BALL DOWN = FIVE PENALTY POINTS
ERROR OF COURSE CORRECTED= TEN PENALTY POINTS
GROOM DOWN=TEN PENALTY POINTS
WRONG COURSE= ELIMINATION
OBSTACLE DESTROYED CANNOT COMPLETE=ELIMINATION
Course walking
AN HOUR BEFORE MORNING AND AFTERNOON START TIMES. THIS IS THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN WALK THE COURSE
NOVICES AND NEWCOMERS NEEDING HELP AND ADVICE PLEASE TALK TO OPEN DRIVERS WHO ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP AND ASSIST YOU
COME AND HAVE A FUN DAY OUT.
OUR AIM IS TO GIVE MEMBERS THE CHANCE TO DEVELOP/TRY ARENA DRIVING IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT
Entry forms HERE
ANY QUERIES please contact Steve Hoyle on 07743095387 or 01924480675 (7pm -9pm)
Map HERE
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Sponsored Drive 2012
Photo by courtesy of Doreen Strachan
Photo by courtesy of Doreen Strachan
NEDTL extends its greatful thanks to Sheila Hawking and her team for organising the Sponsored Drive.
Photo by courtesy of Doreen Strachan
A fabulous day, a super new route, the smiles say it all!
More photos in our photo gallery HERE
A huge Thank you to our guest photographer Adrienne Reid (who took over whilst I backstepped for Ken)
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NEDTL’S OWN DRIVING BACK TO SPORT!
Four drivers from the NEDTL brought their turnouts to Willerby Hill Competition Yard on 20th March to give a lecture/demonstration to the East Yorkshire Riding Club. More than 30 members came to see Judy Hilditch, Steve Hoyle and John and Leslee Wilkinson give a wonderful representation of what the sport is like. Those who wished were then invited to climb on the box seat and take the reins for a little walking and trotting with round the indoor school whilst Judy, Steve, John and Leslee instructed from the backstep. After this an exciting head-to-head competition round an indoor obstacle was held. Times were very close with only 6 seconds separating all four drivers and there were plenty of appreciative gasps from the audience as some of the club’s fastest drivers seemed to take it all very seriously! Following a cooling down period members of the riding club were then given the chance to have a ride round the obstacle on the backstep at a somewhat more sedate pace! Everybody seemed to be delighted to have the chance to try carriage driving and social secretary Cathy McClean said the consensus was that it was the best demonstration they had ever had! Many thanks to Judy, Steve, John and Leslee for giving their time and effort to promote the sport of carriage driving.
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New for 2012
The club has given Steve Hoyle the go-ahead to run a series of one day ‘Arena Challenges’ for the club this year. There will be five events, each of which will consist of cones and obstacles in a ‘World Cup style format’. There will be three rounds at each event, one by way of a warm up and two to count towards the final result. (The rules for this type of competition have been adopted by the BHDTA and will be published as soon a they become available). The events will all take place at the Manor Grange Stud, Cridling Stubbs, which is just a short distance from the M62/A19 junction. It has a large, safely fenced area with a good surface for driving on as well as a good warm up space. The events will be open to drivers of single horses and ponies and classes will be divided into Novice and Open. It’s hoped that this competition will provide a good introduction to newcomers in the sport, as well as providing some good fun for those already up and running.
The proposed dates are now on our summer calendar page HERE
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New items on our for sale page includes quality Driving Horses, Carriages and more.
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Our sport needs new volunteers!
Driving is succumbing to the worrying trend that is affecting all sports - not just ours - with a serious decline in the number of new volunteers. No driving event could exist without a huge team of helpers - dressage stewards and writers, marathon timekeepers, obstacle stewards and course crossing marshals, cones arena and collecting ring stewards - all equally important and essential to the smooth running of a competition. But it is interesting to consider that over half our existing “hardcore” of regular stewards came into the sport without any prior knowledge of driving; indeed many of them had no previous experience of horses, and were drawn in by friends and relatives already involved.
Most of our events take place in the grounds of stately homes and by becoming a volunteer with NEDTL you will be able to visit some of the most picturesque locations in our area free of charge. Often the marathon will take in areas which are not normally open to the public. There will be something for everyone, the not so active can man obstacles, section starts and finishes. For the more active we need help in setting up and taking down events, ideal for the more practical among us as most of the obstacles are built 'on site' and need to be dismantled afterwards. No one will be 'thrown in at the deep end' we pair new volunteers with experienced stewards / organisers so there is a chance to make new friends whilst learning how our sport works.
The sport of carriage driving has gained a somewhat elitist reputation but nothing could be farther from the truth. Our club encompasses people from all walks of life, we are a friendly bunch and will make you feel very welcome.
The sport is lucky to have the benefit of some very loyal and long-standing stewards - but they are not getting any younger, and it is essential that we encourage some new people to join us.
If you can help in any way please contact our helpers coordinator Penny Hartley or download THIS FORM. Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Volunteer stewards start a competitor on their way at Escrick Park, and time another in at Newby Hall
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Members For Sale and Wanted ads HERE
Advertise your items for sale or wanted on our members only freeads page
Not just Horses and harness, anything at all within reason. Cars, Caravans trailers etc etc
From the Archives
Mary Longbottom at Wykeham 2004
If you have any old photos of our competitions or members
competing elseware we would love to borrow them for our
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From the Archives"corner.We would scan them and return
them to you. Please contact us at webmaster@nedtl.co.uk