Hall, a sumptious meal was
provided by the ladies from the Exmoor Brooke fundraising group. This
competition was run in aid of the Brooke Charity and the CEO Petra Ingram gave a talk on its work. Petra is also a TREC judge and helped by manning a checkpoint on the orienteering course and judged on Sunday.
After the horses had been checked for fitness on
BHS TREC Burrow Farm,
Wootton, Courtenay played host to the BHS TREC event on 23rd
September
qualifying winners for Level 2 and 3 Individuals
and Pairs at the 2013 BHS TREC Cavallo Horse and Rider Championship of Great Britain to be held in the Brecon Beacons.
Maggie Robertson, who moved to Burrow Farm in 2007 after founding the South East Trec group in 2000, was the event organizer. Maggie is a BHS TREC Technical Delegate and International Judge, as is her partner Robert Billson. Robert was the Traceur for of the competition designing the orienteering route. He was also the Senior Technical Delegate for the orienteering route at the GB TREC Championships
held at Holwell Lawn, Widecombe in the Moor last year. The event vet was Freya Jollands from White Lodge Veterinary Clinic
Riders traveled from as far as Co Durham, Kent, Yorkshire and Cornwall to take part. Derbyshire’s Sarah Turnbull won the Level 3 individual event riding her 14.1hh Connemara cross Arab pony Wooda with second place going to Hilary Barnard from Bristol on her New Forest pony Harvey.
First in the Level 2 individual class was Alex Wells from Barnsley with her sixteen year old TB horse Toffee with the Level 2 pairs being won by Lesley Benyon and her Anglo Arab/ Morgan called Justin, with her partner Ann Weaver and her Welsh Cob, Morgan, both from Shropshire.
Newcomers to TREC Jenny Plastow from Exeter on her 13 year-old 3/4 TB horse Trinny and Pat Young from West Somerset RC on her part TB Harvest Moon won the novice pairs class.
The event was held over two days with riders following an orienteering route on the Saturday aka the POR. The Level 2 riders completing 17km and the Level 3 riders 27km. The route started at Burrow Farm and went through Fairgarden Farm by kind permission of the Dascombe family and then onto Brockwell, Blackford and Tivington before they started the ascent to the Macmillan Way through the Great Heddon Plantation by kind permission of the Hon Roland Lytton of the Bratton Estate, these woods proved to be the nemesis for many riders, some becoming totally disorientated before finally leaving to arrive at the Vet checkpoint which was situated at the edge of Hopcott Common.
Riders were able to take in the stunning views over Minehead and the Bristol Channel on a particularly bright and sunny day before descending, the Level 3 riders from the Dunster end of Grabbist Hill and the Level 2 riders from Knowle Hill to Ranscombe Farm in Wootton Courtenay.
On the Saturday evening social, which took place in Wootton Courtenay Village
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Sunday morning, they were
then faced with the riding skills course (or PTV) which comprised of 16 obstacles designed to be the challenges that riders may find whilst out on a hack, such as crossing a stream, jumping a hedge, riding over a bank and other obstacles such as leading a horse through a trailer, making the horse stand still whilst being mounted and opening and shutting a gate. They were also required to demonstrate they could control the gait of their horse, known as the Control of Paces, and had to canter as slowly as possible over a 150metre track designed like the break cancer knot and then walk back as fast as possible. This was timed.
Although it rained on the Sunday it did not deter the riders. Maggie wishes to extend her thanks to all the volunteers, stewards and judges for stoically standing in the rain for over four hours!
Report Maggie Robertson Photo Gilly Davidson
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