Category: Competitions

HRDA took a team of four horses to the regionals, which included Maisie, Jelly, Lady and Trojan, who were ridden by nine of our riders. Really pleased with Lady and Trojan as it was their first outing and only Maisie's second outing. The sun shone and our riders took part in a variety of dressage tests and the country sid e challenge. Our riders came away with a lot of rosettes and four of our riders have qualified for the regionals, which is great.

Herefordshire RDA took five riders to the RDA nationals at Hartpury on the 15th of july 2017, they had all qualified for the countryside challenge. It was a dry day and we had a huge entourage of supporters. Zara and Stephanie spent lots of time polishing up Daisy and Jelly for the best turned out, they did look good, but the standard was very high. Now they know what they need to do, they are hoping to do better next year. Everybody did really well in the competition, as it was quite a challenge. Daisy was not keen on the…

A great day was had by everybody, the day stayed dry. Many of our riders had their first experience of riding in another arena, which they coped with well. What was lovely to see is how everybody supported each other, and new friendships were born. Due to the number of our clients who wanted to compete in the intro class, the college kindly created our own section within the class. Ryan Gwilliam came 1st and was overall in joint first place in the whole class which was very good. Daniel Bailey 2nd Jackie North 3rd Stephanie Boyce 4th Zara Roberts 5th…

We had a great couple of days at the Nationals, the sun shone on us and the horses coped really well with the atmosphere. We did really well in the Arts, with Jessica Dallow coming 3rd with her collage, and Thomas Jones coming 1st with his cardboard sculpture. Thomas received a beautiful trophy for being the overall arts winner. In the dressage Stephanie Boyce came 13 th in her walk, trot test on Blue. In the country side challenge on the sunday, Jessica Dallow came 7th in class 83, on Blue, Kilyn Griffiths came 8th on star and Stephanie Boyce 5th in…

Congratulations to our amazing riders who attended the West Mercia Regionals. Only a small proportion of our riders want to compete and we came home with lots of rosettes, with two of our riders qualifying for the National Championships at Hartbury, the highest scoring dressage test in Herefordshire and the overall winner of the 3D class in the art competition. Plus masses of fun! For all the results from the qualifiers, visit the RDA West Mercia website. Well done everyone and a big thankyou to everyone who came to help make it a perfect day! Great new venue too.