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2005 Results

Fife Hunt Pony Club - Sprot Cup 28^th December 2005 at DABBS

Once again the venue of DABBs was much appreciated as all outdoor riding activities on the day were impossible due to very wintery weather conditions.  However, despite unsalted snowy and icy roads many ponyclubbers were undeterred, coming from as far afield as Aberfeldy and the Angus glens to try and wrest the Sprot Cup from Fife Hunt Pony Club.  Strathearn Pony Club reaped the rewards from lots of enthusiastic help from Will Murray, one of their senior members and a national level JRN competitor, as well as a lot of early morning phone calls to get everyone to turn out.  This was particularly rewarding for Stephanie O’Neil who won her own class by a clear 10 seconds, as well as the Dengie Qualifier.  This class was held for the first time as part of the Sprot Cup day.  It was very competitive, with only 2 seconds separating the first three and six seconds between the first seven, so that the four qualifying slots were well earned.  The Keith family also had a good day with their pony Gambit, who took Class 3 with Freddie and then went on with sister Emily to win the Open, this combination are the current Area 1 Dengie winners.  Strathearn led Fife on points by 37 to 34 before the last class, but Fife had a heavy number advantage at the senior end of this competition so the final result swung convincingly Fife’s way to allow them to hold on the Sprot Cup at the end of the day. 

Class 1. 10 and under Pairs:  1^st Georgina Black – Isla Thomson, 2^nd Katherine Lindsay – Kitty Rowan Hamilton, 3^rd Jenny Summersgill – Joanne Forrester, 4^th Annie Broad – Jemma Christie, 5^th Rosie Keith – Hermione Drummond-Moray, 6^th Rosh Ryder – Alicia Mathieson. 

Class 2. 10 and Under Jumping:  1^st Jenny Summersgill, Toby, 2^nd Emily Ryder, Amy, 3^rd Jenny Summergsill, Rohin, 4^th Georgina Black, Cherry Pie, 5^th Morven McLean, Pink Lady, 6^th Hermione Drummond-Moray, Misty. 

Class 3.  11 & 12 Yrs Pairs Jumping:  1^st Jessica Menzies – Nancy Rowan-Hamilton, 2^nd Mike Harley – Jamie Drummond-Moray, 3^rd Emily Ryder – Dee Dee Brodie, 4^th Freddie Keith – Charlotte Marlow, 5^th Lauren McKinney – Marnie McLean, 6^th Annie Broad – Make Harley. 

Class 4. 11 and 12 yrs Jumping:  1^st Freddie Keith, Gambit, 2^nd Lauren McKinney, Cinders, 3^rd Marnie McLean, Leo, 4^th Jessica Menzies, Rosie, 5^th Angus Broad, Nikita, 6^th Annie Broad, Amy. 

Class 5.  13 & 14 yrs Pairs:  1^st Lauren McLean – Julia Paterson, 2^nd Clementine Marlow – Lucy Moffat, 3^rd Amy Robertson – David Lawrie, 4^th Catriona McLean – Rebecca Marlow, 5^th Christina Ellis – Jenny Drysdale, 6^th Emily Ryder – Jenny Drysdale. 

Class 6.  13 and over Novice:  1^st Clementine Malim, Indy, 2^nd Carolyn Ellis, Gin Fizz, 3^rd Jenny Drysdale. 

Class 7.  13 and 14 Yrs Jumping:  1^st Stephanie O’Neil, Dunny the Dun, 2^nd Lucy Henry, Tequilla Sunrise, 3^rd Lottie Murray, Swedish Rhapsody, 4^th Jenny Drysdale, Josh, 5^th Nancy Rowan-Hamilton, Running Bear, 6^th Molly Rowan-Hamilton, Irish Dragon. 

Class 8.  Dengie 1^st Round Qualifier:  1^st Stephanie O’Neil, Dunny the Dun, 2^nd Molly Rowan-Hamilton, Irish Dragon, 3^rd Lauren McLean, Copper.  4^th Alice Drysdale, My Amanda, 5^th Nicole Spittle, Pavlova, 6^th Pamela Reid, Good Chance. 

Class 9.  15 and over Pairs:  1^st Lorna Balfour – Laura Grieve,   2^nd Emma Coyle – Holly Robertson, 3^rd Eilidh Grieve – Emily Keith, 4^th Laura Grieve – Poppy Open, 5^th Alice Drysdale – Molly Rowan-Hamilton, 6^th Emma Lawrie – Gabi Wolf. 

Class 10.  15 and over Jumping:  1^st Emily Keith, Gambit, 2^nd Lorna Balfour, Ali, 3^rd Alice Drysdale, My Amanda, 4^th Pamela Reid, Good Chance, 5^th Nicole Spittle, Pavolova, 6^th Emma Lawrie, Border Blizzard. 

October Competitions. 

West Perthshire PC held their novice one-day-event on Saturday 1st October.  This was enjoyed among others by some Cheapes, Harleys and Georgina Black.  Georgina won her class, Rosie Keith won the dressage on Dixie and was 7th overall on her, then 9th on Flick.  Emily was 2nd on Gambit and 7th on Storm. 

The following day Angus PC held their huntertrial at Auchlishie.  Here Camilla Balfour was second in the 3'6", and in the 3' class Lorna won and Ross Hood was second. 

Craigie One-day-event.  Fife Riding Club were very congenial hosts for their 40th Anniversary One-day-Event on Sunday 19th September.  A lot of our members had a good day, especially in the Junior Open where Louise Peddie won the dressage, then we had a 1-2-3 overall from 1st Lucy Eccles, 2nd Lorna Balfour and 3rd Alice Drysdale.  Camilla Balfour was second to ex-member Heather McLaren in the Senior Open, and Gillian Osler on Amber also went clear cross-country in their class.  Sarah Cunningham was 2nd on Sherry in the Young Riders Novice. 

Dalkeith & District PC ODE was attended by the Keith family, where Rosy was third in her class and Emily was 3rd and 5th and had a successful new brake testing outing. 

Success for our Show Jumping members:  Helen and Louise both went down to the Scope Festival in Staffordshire and had a great week of showjumping. There were 250 in Helen`s first class so it was quite an eye-opener !!  Helen`s best result was coming 7th out of a class of 150. Louise got a double clear in the British Novice just wasn't quick enough, however she got placed in the 1m progressive coming 29th out of 268 competitors.An excellent result for her.

Pony Club Novice Championships 2005

A happy band of six set off for the Pony Club National Novice Championships in Cheshire full of hope.  The Drysdale lorry was full with four of the best 14.2 pony club ponies around – namely Snips, Puzzle, Kez and Jemma along with their jockeys Caitlin Macrae, Alastair McKinney, Alice Drysdale and Lorna Balfour.  These four made up the dressage team, the other two of Lucy Eccles (hot off a plane from Spain) and Vanessa who had been kept fit by sister Katie, and David Lawrie (also 2005 winning Scottish Junior Tetrathlon team member) with Tienchi were in the Novice Eventing team along with Alastair and Lorna who had a busy week-end doubling in the dressage followed by the eventing on Sunday.  All the dressage took place at the same time in four arenas side by side, so that it was only possible to watch one test completely.  They all did lovely tests in a competition where the judges reported that the standard had been very high.  There were forty-one teams entered, so also forty one individuals in each class.  Alice was fifth individually and Caitlin was 11^th individually, and the final team placing was 14^th overall, a very creditable performance from our first ever dressage representatives at these championships. 

That afternoon the course for the cross-country the following day was walked by everyone.  None of the jumps were big or difficult on their own, but the rolling country-side, hedges and combination of the different jumps gave everyone lots to think about, a very true contemporary “eventing” cross-country test.  The dressage started well with Vanessa and Lucy doing a top ten placed test, and the others were all good as well.  However the cross-country didn’t go so well, there were a lot of eliminations throughout the competition, and Lorna was our only completion, but Alastair and Lucy completed the whole course, although Tienchi called it a day three quarters of the way round.  They were all allowed to complete the show-jumping in another undulating arena, so were able to finish on a high note.  Everyone had thoroughly enjoyed the experience at this lovely well-run competition, with a great pony club atmosphere.  The parents were very pleased that they were then able to get home in the light rather than the late night drive they had been anticipating, so that school the next day was not quite such a challenge! 

Interbranch 2005

We did it – Open and Intermediate Event, Novice Dressage and 1 Open Show jumper all qualify for the Championships – best Interbranch for years – very well done everyone.  --  Now read on. 

A group of 50 odd parents and members and family set off to Burgie for three days of  competition at Novice and Open level for Area 1 Dressage, Show Jumping and Eventing.  Fife had a great time, everybody without exception, performing brilliantly.  On Tuesday we started off with the Novice Dressage competition.  This team qualified for the National Championships so were thrilled at that.  The team were Alice Drysdale and Meikle Kestrel (7^th), Caitlin Macrae and Snips (2^nd), Alastair McKinney and Puzzle (6^th) and Lorna Balfour and Gemma (6^th), and the individuals were Lucy Eccles and Vanessa (9^th), and David Lawrie and Tienchi (12^th). 

The next day was the Show Jumping.  The Novice team of Emma Coyle and Fibi, Ross Hood and Spot On, Nicole and Prince, and Alice Drysdale on My Amanda were 6^th out of 17 teams, this was much the biggest entry out of the different interbranch sections.  Meanwhile the individuals of Jenny Drysdale on Josh and Lorna (I’ll show you what happens if you don’t put me in the team!) Balfour both did clear first rounds, with Lorna going on to double clear and winning the competition as first individual from 80 entries.  Well done Lorna.  The Open Dressage team of  Wills Oakden, Nicole Spittle, Emma Lawrie and Vikki White all did nice tests to finish as 6^th placed team. 

The Open Show Jumping Team were competing at the same time in the adjacent arena, however with a disappointing entry of only 31 participants and seven teams entered.   This didn’t detract from the excitement over a tricky course with full use being made of the slight gradient of the arena at Burgie.  The team was Nikki McRobbie and Cally, Helen Summersgill and Robin’s Quest, Emma Lawrie and Lizzie, Louise Christie and Sparkling Irish Mist.  Louise was the star of the first round with a brilliant clear, and they all did great second round for the team to finish a very close third overall, after much nail-biting and checking of the scores.  The best result of the lot came the next morning when we learnt that Helen, who had done a very consistent two rounds of four faults a piece to come fourth individually, had been passed the envelope giving her an invitation to compete and the Pony Club Championships at Sansaw. 

We all had a great party on the Wendesday evening where Caroline McLeod was presented with a specially commissioned picture by “Loon” to mark her retirement as Area 1 Representative. 

On Thursday it was an early start for the Eventers.  The Novice Team was David Lawrie, Lucy Eccles, Alastair McKinney and  Lorna Balfour, with Emma Coyle and Ross Hood going individually.  They had a long day, but reward came in the end with 19 teams forward, Fife won the competition.  They had all gone well across country, only carrying one stop forward to the final score on top of good show-jumping an dressage which was good enough to win the competition, so they will join the dressage team at the Novice Championships.  In this competition, the cross-country had taken a big toll of the competitions.  

The opposite was true of the Open Event competition where the Show Jumping was the critical factor with only 3 faultless show-jumping rounds.  Our team were Wills Oakden on Market Trend (George), Emily Keith on Gambit, Camilla Balfour on Pogo and Vicky White on Imane Des Sources (Eno).  They were second by 0.25 penalties, so they were all going through the “if-only’s” like crazy, however nothing could take away from a brilliant team performance by all everyone, with all four round the cross-country clear.   Vicki was fourth individually and has qualified to go down to the Championships.  Lucy Henry was our individual in this competition doing only her second 3’6” Open Event, but she joined the other four to finish with a brilliant clear cross-country round and a performance to be proud of.  |It was not until two days later that the phone call came through to say that the winning team of Deveron had pulled out, so Fife have now taken the qualifying position and the whole team will now be travelling down to Sansaw along with Vikki.

A huge thanks to Sarah Oakden and Lisa Hood who travelled with the team and looked after the teams for us.  Also to Catherine, Gwen and Chris who were a huge support, and kept on their toes with all the scoring, timing, cheering and general hand-holding that went on. 

Jumpcross was tried for the first time by some of our members at a select session at Strathearn Eventing with Sarah Houlden.  They had some tuition from Sarah and then completed the full length cross-country length course of 2'6" jumpcross jumps including a water splash, style, bank, ditch .... and joker fences.  The results of the day were 1st Lauren McKinney, 2nd, Jamie Struthers, 3rd Alastair Mckinney on his new horse, 4th Lynsay Drysdale, 5th Scott Drysdale and 6th Jemma Christie.  Well done everyone. 

Well done to everyone who took part in dressage day on Monday and
thanks to all the helpers.. Here are the results -

Class 1 - 10 & under.   1st Rosie Keith / Dixie         2nd Rosie Keith / Beano
        3rd Catherine Macrae / Trooper          4th Emma Cheape / Smartie
        5th Jemma Christie / Holly              6th Hanna Cheape / Crystal

        8 & under   1st Hanna Cheape    2nd  Alanna Hood   3rd  Rebecca Coyle

Class 2 12 & under    1st Colleen Macrae / Snips      2nd Freddie Keith / Flick

Class 3 Novice 12 & under  1st Ross Hood / Spot On   2nd Colleen Macrae / Snips
                           3rd Emma Cheape  Smartie  4th Rosie Keith / Beano
                           5th Rosie Keith / Dixie   6th Catherine Macrae /
Trooper

Class 4 Novice 13 & over  1st Caitlin Macrae / Rose   2nd Laura Donaldson / Rolo

Class 5 14 & under  1st Wills Oakden / George    2nd Caitlin Macrae / Snips
                    3rd Lucy Eccles / Vanessa    4th Gabi Wolf / Pikey

Class 6 15 & over  1st Emily Keith / Gambit    2nd Lorna Balfour / Mitch
                   3rd Emma Coyle / Fibi

Class 7  Trial & Error Trophy    1st  Wills Oakden / George
         2nd Camilla Balfour / Mitch    3rd Emily Keith / Gambit
         4th Camilla Balfour / Pogo

The week-end of 11/12 June was a very busy week-end for lots of our members in all sorts of disciplines.  The children who do Games had a particularly full week-end of activities.  The senior team of Alastair, Jenny, Rebecca, Lucy M, and Caitlin did us proud at Angus show where 6 teams competed in a fast and furious competition, with the top 4 teams all scoring over 50 points and coming within 6 points of each other.    Fife won a couple of the races and were well placed in many others so that at the end Fife tied for 3rd place with Angus, but finished fourth after the run-off.  Strathearn (who we beat at the Area competition) won the competition with Eglinton in second position.  All this was achieved despite missing out one race entirely because poor Caitlin was knocked to the ground by an enthusiastic Dixie in the 3-legged sack race, so had to get medical attention.  The nasty fall was made up for by the crowd giving her the best cheer of the day when she got up in one piece, if a bit batterred.  Past fife games players will be impressed to hear that they were 3rd in the large sack!  The team, minus Rebecca, plus Freddie then went to Doune to join the rest of their families and lots of other pony club games teams for the second day of the games week-end.  Here the juniors of Lauren, Rosy, Freddie (honorary member) and Daniel Wood finished first in their section - a photo of their winning charge is on the games page of this web site.  The seniors were again beaten by Strathearn into second place in their section, and a mention must be made to Jamie S who did brilliantly to join a Strathearn team for the week-end where he and Puffin thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were thrilled to be presented with a T-shirt by them at the end. 

Meanwhile we had representatives at the Balkello X-country competition.  Ruth Elliot and Rebecca Headon (also Mum Ann on Woody) all went clear, while Louise Christie was second in Class 2.  In the 10 and under Georgina Black won with Lucy Harley third, good rounds were also completed by Jemma Christie and Emma and Sarah Cheape. 

Fife Riding Club had a Show Jumping show.  Class 8 was won by Colleen Macrae on Snips,.  Lynsay Drysdale had a great day out finishing up by winning her very first Open Show jumping competition, she had warmed up well by coming 5th in the Intermediate, 4th in the Novice and 4th in the Nursery Novice.  Meanwhile brother Scott was 6th in the Novice. 

Week-end of 4/5 June. 

West Perthshire Huntertrials 5 June.  2' Class 1st Jamie Struthers, 3rd Rosy Keith on Dixie.  Georgina Black was clear in the 1'6" class and there were nice rounds from the Cheapes, Harleys, Jemma Christie and Freddie Keith.  

Tetrathlon.  Rosy Lucy and David Lawrie have been representing Scotland in the international tetrathlon competition in Northern Ireland over this week-end.  David was second, more news to follow shortly.  Eventing.  Mary Drysdale was 3rd in the Novice at Scotsburn. 

Fife Hunt Pony Club

Mounted Games

Interbranch 2005 - Saturday 21 May

The teams had a very rare sunny day for this year’s Interbranch games.  Although there were a few very light rain showers, the day was enjoyed by all.

We had two senior teams entered.  The ‘A’ team was made up of; Jenny Drysdale on Josh, Rebecca Gatherum on Flick, Alastair Mckinney on Puzzle and Lucy Moffat on Travis.  The ‘B’ team was: Caitlin Wood on Dixie, Jamie Struthers on Puffin, Freddie Keith on Beano and Holly Forgan on Connie.  Most of the ‘B’ team are in the first year of Senior Games and all of them are having their first year on these ponies.  The ‘A’ team had a successful day making all finals bar one (the old sock race).  They finished 4^th of 14 teams and therefore took the last qualifying place for the Zone Finals in July.  They were also one point away from qualifying for the Highland Show  - how frustrating is that!  The ‘B’ team put in a brave attempt and, although they made no finals, coped very well in the heat of a competition.  A special mention must go to Freddie Keith as he coped very well with Beano, who was finding his first competition extremely exciting, and Freddie managed to stay in the saddle during a few very scary moments! The senior results were as follows;

1^st-West Perthshire (National Prince Phillip Cup Champions 2004), 48 points

2^nd-Orkney, 37 points

3^rd-Angus, 30 points

4^th-Fife Hunt ‘A’, 29 points

5^th-East Stirlingshire, 24 points

6^th-Strathearn ‘A’, 21 points

7^th-Strathearn ‘B’, 20 points

8^th-Kincardinshire, 14 points

9^th-Bennachie, 12 points

10^th-Inverness, 11 points

11^th-West Perthshire ‘B’, 10 points

12^th= Fife Hunt ‘B’

          Orkney ‘B’, 8 points

We also had a Junior Novice team entered.  They were; Emma, Sarah and Hannah Cheape on Smartie, Sapphire and Crystal accompanied by Nicola Howat on Silver (luckily she's used to being part a large family).  They all showed they had learned a lot from the few practices they had, when they won their competition beating teams from; Angus, Bennachie, Caithness, Inverness and Strathearn.

The Junior Team consisted of; Lauren McKinney on Cinders, Daniel Wood on Tipta, Rosie Keith on Rowan, Jenny Summersgill on Shandy and Jemma Christie on Holly.  They got into two finals and did well in both of them to finish 8^th out of eleven teams. The results were;

1^st-Angus

2^nd-Strathearn ‘A’

3^rd-Orkney ‘A’

4^th-Caithness

5^th-Orkney ‘B’

6^th-West Perthshire

7^th-Bennachie

8^th-Fife Hunt

9^th-Strathearn ‘B’

10^th= Aberdeenshire & East Stirlingshire

All the teams did very well and we would like to thank all the parents who came to help with line judging etc, as well as Chris, Susan and Catherine whose help and support was invaluable.  We couldn’t have taken part without you.  Also thank you to all those who provided ponies for others to ride, it was hugely appreciated.  Well done to everybody and we hope you all enjoyed yourselves and will come again to take part in any friendly competitions and at Blair at the end of the summer

Look under Activities - the Tetrathlon Section to see Tetrathlon/Triathlon Results.  

Craigie Huntertrials:  The date change and a clash with the Scottish Schools championships at Gleneagles did FHPC members no harm as some great results were achieved at Craigie.  Class 3 Junior Novice 0.90cm 2nd Gabi Wolf and 3rd Lucy Eccles (her first 3' course), 4th Louise Christie.  Class 5 Pairs 3rd Louise Christie with Louise Walker.  Class 6 Minimus (0.75cm):  1st = Elizabeth Headon and Antonia Lambert, 3rd Sarah Cunningham. 

Hallyburton Huntertrials:  Emily Keith was 3rd in the Open - her first attempt at this level, very well done Emily.  

Auchlishie Huntertrials 10 April 2004.  There was a good turnout of 26 Fife members for the Angus Pony Club Open huntertrials over a well-built and challenging course on what was a less cold but windy day with very good ground conditions. 

Quiz Success.  Congratulations to our quiz team of Jacqaueline Howat, Colleen Macrae, Ruth Elliot and Caitlin Macrae who won the interbranch quiz at Auchtertool on February 19th (for the second year running), and then went on to compete in Inverness on the 12th March for the Area final.  They did well there to finish fifth with only 10 marks separating all the team scores.  The Mini team of Jemma Christie, Yvonne Howat, Catherine Macrae and Rosie Keith won their section at the interbranch quiz as well.  All those dedicated evenings of practices put in with Lyn Macrae and Gillie Keith (and Alison McRobbie) were well worth it - thanks to them for all their hard work and well done to everyone who took part. 

The Kingdom Trophy was retained by Fife Hunt Pony Club on Saturday 5th March at Balcormo.  There was the usual challenging fun course to test the riding skills plus animated commentating by Sandra Low-Mitchell to challenge the nerve of the competitors.  The team of Rebecca Gatherum, Lucy Henry, Helen Summersgill and last but most importantly Gillian Osler won by a very close margin from North East Fife Riding Club.  Gillian had a very small penalty margin in hand and she rose really well to the occasion to clinch the trophy for the Pony Club again.  Emma Lawrie and Alistair McKinney got special prizes for being the only two to do double clears. 

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