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horsewoman. Sitting astride her mount, wearing the colours of her country, she will step out , into the arena of the biggest sporting extravaganza in the


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world. In front of a television audience of


hundreds of millions, in temperatures hovering around 100 degrees Fahren­ heit and in overbearing humidity, all of which will have beads of sweat, rolling over her body, Joanna Jackson .


will begin her campaign to win an Olympic dressage gold medal for


This is seen as the ultimate experi­ ence for an amateur sportsperson. In Joanna’s case, there is a further step. She is confident of doing well and seriously believes she has a good chance of bringing a medal back to the Ribble Valley. Speaking from home at the weekend, she said: ‘‘I know we stand a good chance of getting a silver or a bronze in Atlanta and, who knows, with just that little bit of luck, what will hap­


pen?” Joanna (26), who lives and works


| music event, for an individual medal. Joanna cannot remember not riding horses. She started more or less as soon as she was bom. Her three elder sisters and brother already had hors­ es and the toddler stepped effortless­ ly into the stirrups. ,, When she was three, she was taking


from her parents’ home, The Royds, in Chatburn, flies out with the British team to Atlanta today. She will spend three weeks acclimatising and training under the world- renowned German former gold- medalist horseman, Harry Boldt. Then, on July 27th and 28th, along with her three other team-mates, she will contest the two-day Grand Prix dressage event. If she is placed in the top 24, she will then go on to contest the Grand Prix Special event and, if further placed — in the top 12—she will be battling, in the free-style


Great Britain. ; ‘


day at the'end of July will see the biggest event in the.life of a Chatbum i


by Max Gardner


part in lead-rein competitions all round the country and at the age of


six she won the Cheshire Show. From the age of 10 to 16, Joanna showed her potential for future greatness. In Working Hunter competitions, she won the Royal Highland Champi­ onships twice and competed in the Royal Show and the Working Hunter Championships of Great Britain. She ^ also took part in her first intemation-: al event, in Verona, at the age of 10. During this period, sister Shirley . :


also showed great potential, as she . was long-lifted for the national team for three-day eventing, but dad Ronald believed Joanna was the one who looked likely to go on to great things. When asked if Joanna looked to be striding out ahead of her sisters and brother, he said: “Of course she was. You only have to look at her success­ es then and, in particular, her second place in Verona.” As an active member of the Pendle Forest and Craven Hunt Pony Club, the former Chatburn CE Primary School and Riversmeade (now Bow- land County) High School pupil was introduced to team events. She took ' up three-day eventing with a passion and continued to have success, win­ ning most of the trials in which she took part, competing in the presti­ gious Royal Windsor Show and being long-listed for Britain’s European Junior three-day event team. After the heartbreak of the fatal


injury of her horse, Tom Barger, when she was just 17, Joanna almost gave up riding. But she was persuad­ ed to take part in a talent-spotting competition, which resulted in her spending two years in Northumber­ land at the stables of the coowner of her present top-rated horse, Mester Mouse. There she took up dressage on a serious basis and, for a three- year period between 1989 and 1991 was the national Young Rider of the Year. As a junior she won the senior championships in 1990, and the Her­ mes Young Rider Scholarship, which


!TM©U<©-ai,2? f o r t h e w e e k


because her child had a friend to play with. However, the novelty of having a companion faded when the hitherto lonely one saw how much joy her visitor had from play­ ing with the toy pram. Although it had received scant


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attention in recent times, that little pram suddenly became very precious and too good to share with a casual visitor. She opened the French win­ dows and pushed the pram indoors, behind the settee. Deprived of her toy, the visiting child turned her attention to one of the dolls. But, once again, the obvious pleasure it gave to her companion was too much for the one who had given the doll lit­ tle attention of late. The toy was thought to be much too


wo little girls were playing in the garden and the mother of the smallest rejoiced


valuable to share, so it was also


dumped out of the way behind the settee. The children soon tired of each


other’s company and the visitor decided to go home and did so, never


tle^rl^a?^1^ V " th that lonely Ut" fPerhaps the mother was to blame for ailing to teach her child to share her


toys in play with a friend. This hZ often been learned at playschool, b“ it is very helpful when youngsters can


be encouraged to share their poss^ sions as early as possible. Many nlvS


lem-n this lesson, even in later life as


Is ‘ ° be noted by their selfish attf hides. One of the best rem»™i, M J


Even committed Christians do not


always share the riches of Jesus’s grace, nor the fruits of the Holy Spir­


it, love, joy and peace, as much as they could. We all have something to share with


people m need of it. We may not be counted among the wealthy, but we usually have something we could share wrth the distressed, old or lone- y* 1 he inspiration of love, joy or


peace in our hearts received from esus is given to us that we may share


it with others. If you have been thinking that you


nave nothing worthwhile to share, do o forget about your friendship,


y, ur,.ove and sympathetic under­ standing and consideration. These


- e “ e f f i ° y ^ k ’> e,yWeh^


be used to help someone. Joe Stnnsficld


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obvious blessings you can share. our Possessions are held in trust


took her to the renowned Spanish Riding School of Vienna. For s ixt


months she had a routine which took in riding 22 horses a day, for 12-hour stints, in freezing weather. “This was a wonderful experience for me. I certainly learnt a great deal • and it enabled me to start up my own yard,” said Joanna who, during the same year, went on to represent her country in the European Young Rider Championships in Belgium and Italy. . .


• . / As a senior, Joanna made her Grand


Prix debut in 1993 after winning International Goodwood a year ear­ lier, at the lower Prix St George level. Representing Great Britain last year, Joanna took part in all three Castle Classics team events and she finally heard of her selection for Atlanta after an international Grand Prix event in Rennes three weeks ago. Joanna said: “At the beginning of


last year I did not know whether I would be in serious contention for an Olympic place, but, during the mid­ dle of the year, Mousey started show­ ing off, like he can, and then I started believing in our chances.” In Britain, we have a long tradition


of horsemanship and horse-riding competitions are keenly followed. Dressage is not one of the Olympic high-profile events. Bearing this in mind, it is not unrealistic to make a comparison between Joanna and other Olympic greats such as Linford Christie, Fatima Whitbread and Sharon Davies. Joanna’s brother and sisters are hop­


ing'to be in Atlanta to cheer her on, while mum and dad stay at home to look after the grandchildren. Joanna (centre) is pictured with her mum and dad, sisters Shirley (left)


and Pamela and her nephews and nieces. • Joanna wishes to thank everyone


who has helped her reach Atlanta, ^he an°nymous donor of


£100 and Clitheroe’s Greenacre Honda garage, which is sponsoring


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i tie, somebody, somewhere, surely i must be having nightmares. Members of what used to be Ribble


W Valley Council’s Recreation and


j Leisure Committee spent their last i meeting agonising over what they i could do to save money. The budget | they presided over was discretionary. The recent re-organisation has split their responsibilities between Plan­ ning and Devlopment, which gets tourism, and the Community Com­ mittee,which gets everything else. This could make things even more


I complicated in the future, so let us | stick to the old situation for a moment. The entire budget of Recre­ ation and Leisure was devoted to


I activities and facilities which, howev- I er desirable, the council does not have to provide by law. When times are hard, it is not just convenient for councillors to cut dis-


j cetionary spending first; it is their duty. So our councillors were debat­ ing how much less gardening could be


1 done at the castle grounds before nature took over, how many fewer times the grass could be cut and whether it was worth re-seeding with


hile readers and the Rain­ bow Committee dream up schemes for Clitheroe Cas-


As I see it


new, slower-growing types of grass. Efforts to cope with vandalism were


discussed, but these would have cost more money in staffing. Councillors were looking for cuts, not extra spending. The use of television cam­ eras was discussed, this bemg before the full debacle of the towns COi V experience had been disclosed. All in all, it was a grim meeting,


although conducted with courtesy and good humour. The men and women on the committee believed very strongly in the value of what they had been spending our money on, not least because it was one of the instances where funds could be seen to be distributed across the whole


Ribble Valley. It is very hard to see how the finan­ •


cial situation is going to ease suffi­ ciently in the future for substantial amounts to be available for discre­ tionary spending. I am certain that there are many things which we will be asking our elected representatives to spend our money on before the men and women of what used to be


Recreation and Leisure can get their


hands on any. So where docs all this leave dreams


for the castle? Lotteryfunded pro­ jects are capital projects, bricks and mortar jobs. Authorities cannot set nart of the lottery money aside to invest to finance the maintenance and running of the thing that has


been created. Any funds to be spent on encourag­


ing people, particularly young peo­ ple, to enjoy their leisure positively in the castle grounds, and to ponce them properly so that they will be caught and dealt with effectively if , they don’t, will have to come from the rates. That money was not there a couple of months ago.


There is a real danger that some of our money will be locked up in things


which we have no resources to run or maintain properly, another headache


for the next generation of local politi- cians.


T.C. Stepping out for her big day _


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