Bridgewater Riding Club is home to some of the North Wests biggest monthly horse & pony shows. Based in Cheshire, Bridgewater Riding Club welcomes over 300 entries of all ages and abilities each month across 7 different arenas with events including Show Jumping, Working Hunter, Equitation, Showing, Family, Handy Pony, Handy Horse & Gymkhana.
BRITISH EVENTING
17TH AND 18TH April 2010
Kelsall Hill are looking for volunteers to help out at the British Eventing weekend. It’s an amazing experience and if you would like to volunteer and be part of our team for the day please get in touch with:
Lynn Salmon – lynn@pacificsales.co.uk / 07733 120 221
Jane Whitaker – britisheventing@kelsallhill.co.uk / 07807 120921
The 2010 schedule has been updated and is now online. We’ve listened to all your feedback and we are proud to announce 6 new classes for 2010 with highlights including a new Racehorse to Riding Horse and Foreign Breeds class.
What with these new classes plus the launch of the North West Working Hunter Championships in August, we are so excited about 2010! We hope you are too and look forward to seeing you in April. Not long now!
Check out the show calendar to get those dates in the diary and view the new schedule here.
Welcome to the 2010 season! We are all geared up and ready to go. You can find the membership form for this year by clicking here, please note that yet again there is NO PRICE INCREASE in either membership or entry fees!
I am proud to be back as your chairman in what’s now my 4th year. I want us all to go forward as a team and help make BRC an even more fantastic club than we already are! I’m sure you will welcome our new committee members (as well as the old ones!).We are all around on show days, please feel free to have a chat to any of us. It goes without saying that I know you will treat them with respect. Please listen if they ask you to do something (or not!) on show day. They are doing it for the good of the club!
You can download the newsletter here. For our junior members you can download your junior newsletter here, with a crossword. here, with a crossword!
EMAIL ALERT!
If you receive your newsletter by snail mail, this is the last one you will receive. We have to consider all the environmental issues, and it’s just not necessary in this day and age to rely on printed news every month. You can sign up for our mailing list on the website. Updates are also available on Facebook and Twitter. All forms (pre entry, member, newsletter) can be printed directly off our website. If you do not have web access (surely not!), please ask a friend to print your forms from our site.
ROSETTES TO 8TH PLACE!
Good news for you rosette hunters out there: Bridgewater Riding Club is becoming the first riding club that places every class down to 8th place! The points system remains the same (see schedule booklet when you receive your membership after joining), but every class will now place all the way down to 8th. The junior committee are choosing rosette colours as we speak. The start of a new tradition!
WE ARE LOOKING FOR COVER STARS!
Everyone remember last year’s schedule cover? Well, you have the opportunity again to be a cover star! Email your pictures to ruthclifton@msn.com and we will select the best ones to go on the cover! Closing date is 1st March, so we have time to get it all printed. Best of Luck!!
MEMBERSHIPS – REMEMBER YOUR CARD!
It’s really worth joining BEFORE the shows begin, and save a lot of stress and queueing on first show day morning in the caravan. That way you will be sent your pre entry form every month to fill in and return so all you have to do on show morning is collect your number. When you receive your membership card, keep it safe! Carry it with you in your jacket pocket, as for Highest Placed Member shows you will need it in the ring. We will also need your membership number when you make entries, so keep that card safe!
We will be strict about enforcing this, as last year we had a few people paying member entry rates when they were non members. Hmm. It only takes a couple of mean spirited people to spoil it. So make sure you carry your card, please! Ok, enough lecture.
Make sure you read the junior committee newsletter and get those memberships in. See you at Easter!
Ruth
We are looking to recruit riders for our Show Jumping team. If you are interested please get in touch.
We are also looking to take the Overall Points Championships at the Showing festivals.
