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Time for meal!

The meal tonight is 7.30 for 8.00. Hope you are all hungry!

Report on Festive Afternoon

Despite few riders the afternoon was a good social outing and a good number of members new and old came to support this event. Thank you to all who helped or supported in any way.

The fancy dress trophy was won by Jo and Izzie Harris and Emma Egerton with their excellent cowboy and indian fancy dress. Oliver Miller took second place.

The relay was won by Sue Williams and Emma Egerton, the runners up were Marjory Higgs and Sue Williams

The Seven Barrel (Dancer Trophy) was won by Emma Egerton, 2nd Marjory Higgs, 3rd Sue Williams and 4th Colin Egerton

Improver group rather than High group in December

The three jumping lessons in December will be beginners at 7.30 and improvers at 8.15. Three quarter hour sessions with reduced sized groups. Please let Pat know if you would like to come either to all three or to odd sessions. £10 per session.

Dates for Four Day Course – 29th April to 2nd May, 2014

The dates are confirmed so pencil them in to your diaries and look forward to Spring! Letters will go out with application forms in the usual way in the new year.

Success for BBA members at area 20 novice show jumping qualifier

The ECCTG team of Libby Richards (Holly), Nicki Phillips (Tarry), Nicki Toomer (Tomas) together with Sue O Leary and Argento won the qualifier for the BRC Novice Show Jumping Championships at South View on 10th November. Nicki Toomer and Julie Andrews' Dave came 6th individually. There were 24 teams and 96 competitors so the girls did really well. The championships will be held in the Spring at Hartpury - keep practising girls!

Lesson vacancies update as of 14th November

Flatwork spaces are as follows:
2 spaces at 5.30 amd 2 spaces at 6.30 on 28th November and 2 at 5.30 on 12th December.

January Meeting

Any business in December will be dealt with at the Christmas meal. The January meeting will be held at The Davenport, Marton at 8pm on Monday, 6th January.

Newsletter

The new newsletter is now on the website so do check it out. There will also be some hard copies at the next meeting.

Rocky Parties

We have two Rocky parties booked. These are sessions at New Barn, Olllerton near Knutsford, with Lisa Pritchard and her amazing simulator 'Rocky'. Those of us who have participated previously have found the sessions most enlightening. The sessions will be held on 7th and 8th January from 7pm. Numbers are limited to a maximum of seven at £20 each. Each person receives 20 minutes on Rocky. Lisa has now a cyclossage massage chair in place so members can have a wave massage while they wait. Places will be on a first come, first saved basis so please contact Joy Toomer as soon as possible. If we are over subscribed it will be possible to arrange a further session at a later date.

Flatwork lessons on a Tuesday morning

A number of our members have a fortnightly sessions of flatwork at Alsager Equestrian Centre at 10.30 am on Tuesdays. There are normally six riders in a group and Joy Toomer instructs. From time to time the odd person has to withdraw for a week or two either through illness, lameness or holiday and the ladies would be interested to hear from anyone who would like to go on a waiting list for these odd sessions. Unfortunately there is no permanent place available at the present time. If you would like to be on the list, please contact Pat or Jill Bell. This is a privately arranged group which has run for many years - it is not a BBA event.