INDOOR ROUNDUP
East Anglia East Anglia’s Wix event on 11 December had strong family support with three Bradfords, three Hughes, David Taylor and daughter Claire, and two Smiths. T e sharing of carriages and grooms makes scheduling tricky, however there are usually enough singletons to space the sharers apart. Remarkably among 26 drivers, six forgot the circle in P&P. An apparently innocuous Roger Alway’s
cones course ate away at people’s scores too, only Goldie Francis, Harriet Bradford and Sammy Moncur in single fi gures. Harriet won the open pony class, Sammy second. Top veteran was David Taylor with the speediest single horse times with Jenifer Barker-Simson, fourth open pony, the fastest octogenarian. Mike Watts’ thought-provoking obstacles
caught out Tor Bradford and Grace Smith won the junior class; father Chris backstepping for her and then winning the horse pairs class, beating Brian Burton. Nadia Hughes was second junior, sister Georgia winning the novice pony class. Natalie Bradford, Tor and Harriet’s mother, was second novice pony, husband Tim backstepping. T e single horse classes produced the
most excitement and Ashfi elds’ Emma Claydon had her second win in the novice horse class, chased all the way by Avril Munson and Megan Carruthers with no let up from Goldie Francis and Bruce Finlayson – until his harness broke. Open horse class was dominated by
Caroline Parkin, husband Carl backstepping, until David Taylor whizzed round the obstacles and overtook her. T ird was
David’s daughter Claire, husband Robin Hyde-Chambers backstepping. Carriage driving really is a friendly
family aff air.
Clockwise from top: Alison Tyas, Sue Johnson and Toby, Graham Cooper, Peter and Janice Sidebottom with Paddy.
Competitors around the regions enter into the spirit of Christmas and have plenty of fun dressing up for the fancy dress competitions.
Chris Smith 28 Carriage Driving January 2012
Photo:
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