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Tuesday 28th October 2008

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Portman PC SJ Results 28/10/08

Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Triathalon,

19th October 2008

Portman Success at B & SV Triathalon.

Xavier Vrigneau is the winning individual Boy and helps guide George Bolt through the competition. George did well to finish in 7th place individually in the Junior Group, he was also in the first placed team along with members of the host pony club.

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Summer 2008 News

Xavier Competes in the National Pentathalon

On the last weekend of the Summer holidays Xavier Vrigneau competed in the British youth pentathlon at Solihull; at 14 he is eligible for youth group c but his coach had entered him in the group above which was twice as demanding and meant he was competing against many of the GB team !

20 shots , 2000m run, 200m swim , and 20 fencing bouts later he had 15 minutes to warm up a strange horse and then entered the SJ arena and rode an impeccable round ( thank heavens for Portman pony club camp ! ),

So currently he lies 8th in the country with 2 more years ahead of him in that group.

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ANNE BOLTON COMPETING FOR THE

YOUNG RIDERS BRITISH TREC TEAM

Having come 2nd in the Welsh Trec Championships Anne was invited to ride for the British Young Riders team which is a fantastic achievement. Please read Anne's report on the Le Trec page of the website.

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Junior Camp

Senior Camp

Senior Training

We had a very successful three days for the senior members. On the first day which was organised by Clare Hundley the riders watched some serious dressage at the Regional Dressage Finals at Kingston Maurwood and then went on to have a flatwork lesson with Clare. The following two days was very exciting as we were really lucky to have Stephen Hadley, retired leading show jumper and British team trainer, giving a two day clinic. The riders and horses all benefitted hugely.

Area Tetrathalon

We start the Summer with an Area Win

Congratulations to Xavier Vrigneu who put in an amazing performance to win the Junior Boys Area Tetrathalon in Cornwall on the 12^th July. Sadly the Juniors do not go on to the Nationals. Though Xavier is young enough to compete in the Junior section again next year her is going to move up to the Intermediate section next year. Xavier is shortly going to the National Pentathalon Championships where he came 11^th last year and is hoping to improve on that amazing result this year. We all wish him good luck.

Area Dressage

The Portman went all the way to Bristol with 4 teams for the Area Dressage. Considering last year was the first time the Portman have put forward a team, managing to put together 4 teams was a feat in itself. Everyone had worked really hard with their dressage over the months leading up to the holidays under the great guidance of Clare Hundley. We are really lucky to have an instructor of Clare's calibre on our committee and really dedicated to helping our branch. Though we did not have a winning team we had two very good individual placings with Katt Reimann-Dubbers 5^th in her section and Theresa Reimann-Dubbers ^3rd in her section.

Pictured above is the Portman Junior team at Area Dressage.

Junior Team:

George Bolt, Holly Frizzle, Emily Kendall and Serena Langham

Novice Challenge Team:

Sophie Langham, SophiaJenkinson andKate Northcott

Intermediate Teams:

Annable Mains, Laura Hudson, Rose Yeatman and Katt Reimann-Dubbers

George Bingham, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers and Charlotte Bingham

Area Show Jumping

ONLY ONE PLACE OFF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Portman for the second year running were one place off qualifying for the National Championships. Three teams went all the way to the Syston for the Area 14 Show Jumping competition. Everyone jumped well over some very difficult courses. The team of Annabel Mains, Rose Yeatman, Meredith Holmes and George Bingham managed to go into the final round having brilliantly jumped double clears, an achievement which was only matched by two other teams. Unfortunately the other two teams managed to just get ahead in the jump off for us to finish 3^rd overall, with Annabel coming 6^th individually. The teams were as follows;-

Novice Challenge

Xavier Vrigneau, Eloise Towning, Jessica Kenyon

Intermediate 3rd

Annabel Mains 6th, Rose Yeatman, Meredith Holmes, George Bingham

Intermediate

Miranda Sunnucks, Izzie Sunnucks, Charlotte Bingham

Area Eventing

We like most pony clubs had a mixed day at Aldon for the Area 14 eventing. We fielded a Junior team, a Novice Challenge team and an amazing feat in itself 3 Intermediate teams. Aldon proved to be a very testing course for all classes. The Juniors had a couple of slight mishaps, but with Johanna Reimann-Dubbers putting in a brilliant performance to come 3^rd individually. The Novice team was really unlucky to lose Eloise Towning from the team as her pony was lame. The Intermediate and Novice challenge riders all had some trouble with the testing cross country course, and sadly we did not manage to meet our DC's dreams of getting a team to the championships. Lucy Bowes the mainstay of the Portman eventing team put in a really impressive performance with a fantastic clear cross country to finish 8^th individually. George Bingham was thrilled to be 6^th individually in his section and Annabel Mains was unlucky to be out of the placings in her section where she finished 9^th.