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2007 and 2006 Results

Results of Sprot Cup Christmas 2007 Click here

Junior One-day-Event at Pratis 15 Sept 2007 Download results here
Lahill HT Results Click here
Click here to view Cup Day Results for 2007
Click Here to view the Scores for the Training Day at Montrave 5 August 2007

2007 Intermediate and Open Interbranch Results.  A weary and mostly satisfied band completed two days of interbranch at Strathallan, the going was firm for the Dressage and Show-jumping on Tuesday, but went from slippy to nice again for the One-day-eventing on Wednesday.  We started off with two teams of Intermediate Dressagers, the A team were 4th, they were Nicole Spittle (6th individual), Caitlin Macrae, Lorna Balfour (5th individual) and Louise Walker;  the "B" team were hard on their heels in sixth place.  They were Lucy Henry (4th individual), Rosie Lucey, Gillian Osler and Jenny Drysdale.  We also had Laura Donaldson who was riding individually and was 5th individual.  Caitlin Macrae won the "Warm-up" test at the beginning of the day.  Tuesday then went on to the Open Show-jumping where our team of Lucy Moffat (last minute replacement for Louise Christie who had pulled out as her horse had a big knee), Nikki McRobbie, Nicole Spittle, and Lucy Henry were second.  Only 17 competitors in this section, but it was still a testing and exciting competition.  The Intermediate Show-jumping was more popular, there were 44 competitors, and 10 teams, our team of Rosie Lucey, Laura Donaldson, Sarah Cunningham and Louise Walker did well but were not in the ribbons. 

On Wednesday it was the turn of the Eventers.  The Open team started well, by all doing nice dressage tests within 2 marks of each other.  Nicole Spittle fell foul of the bogie fence in the show-jumping, and although recovered from a fall, accumulated too many penalties to be allowed cross-country.  Lorna, Lucy and Alice then went across country and their team won second place.  Lorna was third overall and only missed the championship qualifying slot by 0.6 points.  Lucy and Alice both had two stops across country, the course was causing a lot of difficulties and the team finished in second place. 
The Intermediate Eventing teams both had some great runs, but sadly the completions were not in the same team, so both teams were eliminated.  The Eventing "A" team was Sarah Cunningham (eliminated SJ), Rosie Lucey (same), Gillian Osler (nice SJ, eliminated very cross-country), and the best scorer was Louise Walker on Fudge who was 8th overall - great result out of 65 competitors.  The "B" team was Laura Donaldson, 11th overall, Jenny Drysdale (technical elimination for four cross-country stops) and Nikki McRobbie who completed 17th.  Everyone did their best, the course was testing, but it was never going to be an easy task having missed camp, as well as everyone being very short of competition practice with so many events being cancelled.  Many thanks to James and Sarah Oakden who have done lots of training and gave up a their time to help everyone at Strathallan, and of course our trusty DCs who turned out to give their support. 

Congratulations to Rosie Lucey and Lucy Henry on their very successful trips with Tetrathlon.  Lucy travelled to Ireland to represent Scotland at the Regional Tetrathlon Championships in Ireland.  She had a great time and got a real taste of the fun to be had.  She was clear XC and did an excellent run.

A few days at home to refuel and then it was off to Hartpury in Gloucestershire along with Rosie Lucey for the Tetrathlon Championships. Lucy did the Open Girls class and was clear XC - 2nd Year Running!! - and swam a PB so well done to her, Lucy has now well and truly got the Tetrathlon Bug and is looking to get a Senior Team to the Championships next Year.

Rosie excelled in the Intermediate Girls Class and came 3rd - An outstanding
result against the best in the UK.  However Rosie was a little disappointed
with this result, why I hear you ask - Well she was sitting in 1st place
after three phases but in the appalling weather condititons they had to
cancel the Intermediate Girls XC and instead had to jump a round of SJ's and
as many of you know this is not her horses forte.  However she managed to
only have two down - but enough to slip her down to 3rd Place, but an
amazing result.  Well done Lucy and Rosie!!

Novice Championships

It was great to have two teams down - showjumpers on Saturday and Eventers on Sunday, each team supporting the other.  Everybody put in their very best performance and we were extremely proud of them.  Team moral was 1st class and everyone returned having had a very positive experience and a real determination to go back again another year.

The showjumpers were challanged by two very difficult and different courses
but at the end of the day were caught out by the water jump.  However our
new jumps have now arrived and Sandra assures me that we have a very scary
water tray so we will get that sorted before  next year!  Sam Smith went
double clear a performance to be very proud of as there were only 14 double
clears out of 156 team competitors and Sam had the second fastest time - it
is such a pity that there was no individual prizes for the team competitors
this time.

On Sunday our eventing team also did us very proud.  They finished 30th out
of 40 teams.  Everyone completed the XC course with the only bogie fence
being No 6  three skinnies in a row!! Star of this team was Lucy Harley who
finished 15th in her arena out of 40. Mike was 28th, Georgina 26th and
Alistair 30th.

The Area 1 Grass Roots competition went ahead despite the weather, one of the wettest, coldest and windiest June days for a very long time.  The Low Mitchells at Balcormo very kindly came to the rescue with their indoor school as the venue for the dressage test, and the turnout was judged in the shelter behind their shed, but the handy pony part of the competition was abandoned due to the driving rain.  Thanks to Sandra, Jackie and Jennifer for their help in allowing the pony club to move to Balcormo at the last minute, as well as sorting out the parking log jam.  The young pony clubbers all did really good dressage tests, and the standard of turnout was very good indeed, wind, mud and rain not withstanding.  The Open competition went down to the wire with the final team of the day, also the furthest travelled, Aberdeenshire, winning with the highest marks of the day for their ridden team collective score clinching the win for them.  The Mini team competition was won by West Perthshire, by only half a point from the Fife Hunt Byts.  We were very pleased to have Jane Coyle present the Rebecca Coyle Trophy in memory of her daughter, who died last summer, to the winning Mini team.  Rebecca was in this competition last year, and it is a fitting tribute to a sadly missed pony clubber, a lovely trophy to remember her by, but her mum did comment that Rebecca was never that tidy, however the photos of her at the competition last year belie that observation. 

Grass Roots Resullts 2007 2007 Show Results 27 May 2007 Team Show Jumping at DABBS Results 2007 Click here to view 2006 Sprot Cup SJ Results
Sprot Cup Retained by Fife for 2006
The Juniors Winners at the Sprot Cup 2006

National PC Championships
 
Open Eventing Championships.  We had Sarah Sandision and Wills Oakden down at Sansaw doing the Open Eventing.  Sarah did brilliantly to complete the course, but Wills retired in the cross-country.  Here is a report from Sally (Sarah's Mum) to give a flavour of what the Open Eventing Competition was like.  "Thanks for the drinks in your lorry - they were just what I needed to have before walking that xc course!!  If I'd been completely sober I wouldn't have let Sarah ride it!  Sarah's dressage was ok, not brilliant, but ok.  In the xc she had 3 stops but then took the 'L's and miraculously finished.  The first water jump, the corner complex and the step up and chair causing problems but otherwise she rode well and even jumped the squiffy narrow jumps, the huge trekaners, the other water complex, the up, over and down combination and the funny brush/ditch thing.  She was disappointed not to have gone clear but quite frankly I think only the really experienced horses and riders went clear* and everyone else had some problem or other and many didn't manage to finish.  By the show jumping they were both knackered and she got 20, and was even more disappointed, but again I felt it was a long, demanding track and she really did very well and in fact jumped the last 4 enormous jumps clear and in 'good style'.  Connor was a star and tried his socks off to the end."
*Eds Note:  Most of the horses that finished had a lot of BE points, and many with points still didn't finish.
We all think Sarah and Wills were brilliant to get there and are very proud of them - Well done to you both. 
 
Eventing:  Lorna Balfour and Ali were fifth in the Intermediate Eventing - a brilliant performance amongst the cream of the pony club intermediate competitors. 
 
Team Show-Jumping;  The Intermediate Show Jumping Team of Alice Drysdale 0,E, Gabi Wolf 8,8, Nicole Spittle 8,0 (on Sarah Sandison's Conner/Keltic Connection) and Lorna 4,0 (team total 20) were fourth out of around 42 teams who had all been first or second in their own areas.  This was a very eventful and emotional afternoon with a goodly quota of highs and lows, and our minds with everyone back home.  Thanks to the plethora of trainers - Sarah, Lisa, Diana with team support Liz Somerville as well, no wonder they did so well! 
 
Novice Championships.  Following the first week-end at Hartpury, then the week at Sansaw, it was the Novice teams's turn at Smallwood Livery Centre in Cheshire.  We had been down last year with the same combination of teams, a dressage and an eventing team, so it was a bit more familiar to some, with stabling on-site this time, and a very welcome team trainer - Bertie Whiteford to help everyone along.  It poured with rain on the night of our arrival so the camping was interesting, and those who had only brought wellies were quite happy.  However by lunchtime when the team of Rosy Lucey, Jenny Drysdale, Colleen Macrae, and Emma Coyle all did their dressage tests, in adjacent arenas at the same time, the skies had cleared.  They all did lovely tests, Rosy achieved the only 8 which everyone was jealous of, and the other three did very accurate and faultless tests.  However, with the now mandatory BD listed judges, everyone felt the marks were dissapointing, with perhaps more emphasis now being put on quality of movement, our ponies did not seem to meet with the judges criteria.  However undeterred Rosy, Jenny and Emma then went on to complete the combined training part of the competition and were thrilled to complete three good rounds to achieve sixth prize, a great result from 19 teams entered.  The next day saw the eventing team of Rosy Lucey (again), Alastair McKinney, Louise Walker and Antonia Lambert doing really well to finish thirteenth from about 42 teams that started.  The cross-country course was very good, lots of variety, skinnies and combinations, all well presented.  They all did a nice dressage, with Antonia getting particularly good marks to lie in fourth position.  Antonia and Rosy then went clear across country, and Louise and Alastair also had good rounds, completing well which was a big improvement on 2005 when the variety in the course really caught our fife members out.  They all then did brilliant show-jumping rounds with only one pole down between them, very good over an undulating course.  Antonia finished in third place in her arena and Rosy was ninth (just out of the rosettes) in her arena and the team were 13th.  Well done to Bertie. 
 
Tetrathlon.  Full tetrathlon results can be viewed on http://www.tetrathlon.org.uk/results/UKchamps06WEB.pdf  Rosie Lucey was our best performer here coming 9th in the Novice Girls, completing a brilliant cross-country round over a very big and technical track at this impressive new tetrathlon venue of Hartpury College.  The Senior Girls team of Emily Keith, Alice Drysdale and Lucy Henry had a great time, with Lucy riding superbly to gain one of the few clear rounds and Lucy and Alice finishing in the middle third of the placings.   David did another pb on his run and his swim ( we all thought he was superhuman) - but in this company there were others.  He is looking forward to next year with his own horse, he would have been third with a clear cross-country! 
 
There are some HUGE photos on our web site under photos "More Information" - sorry didn't get them small enough, you have to scroll down and it will take a while to download. 
 
 
On Saturday 17 June, Fife Hunt Pony Club hosted the Area Grass Roots Competition at Pratis, near Leven by kind permission of Susie Miller.  This is a new and very popular and successful venue competitions with everyone being able to camp, compete and get shelter for the party and results in the main buildings all on-site.  This competion is much enjoyed by a lot of the newer members to pony club, so if often one of their first "interbranch" outings.  There were a lot of very nervous children and parents present.  The competitors enjoyed the grass roots dressage test which is done together as a team of four, followed by the handy pony which is marked individually, all done on the very clean ponies which were initially marked for turnout.  There were two sections of the competition, one for teams of 10 and under, and Section 2 was for teams of mixed ages.  The winners of the minis had come all the way from Aberdeenshire Pony Club, they just pipped the very competitive minded East Aberdeenshire BoysOwnly team into second place with the local Fife Hunt Guys and Dolls in third.  The Open Section had 19 teams entered, and again a far travelled team prevailed - The Inverness-shire Black and White Minstrels came out on top this time, with the host club of Fife Hunt, taking both the second and third spots.  The most memorable pony of the day had to be the tiny palamino shetland with it's very clean fluffy main and tail and matching happy young rider.  It was a really good day for the real "grass roots" members of the pony club.  
 
Results
Grass Roots Competition, Area 1 2006
Saturday 16 August 2006
Minis: 
1st Aberdeenshire, Anna Rennie on Colthill Silver Arrow, Emily Sutherland on Zackie, Natalie Lawrence on Hey Mickey and Amberley Duncan on Corbray. 
2nd East Aberdeenshire BoysOwnly Kelsey Bain on Biscuit, Sebastian Adkins on Paws, Frederick Adkins on Twinkle, Neil Anderson on Gay. 
3rd Fife Hunt Guys and Dolls, Daniel Wood on Missi, Hazel Forgan on Blackie, Rebecca Coyle on Skye, Jemma Christie on Holly. 
Open: 
1st Inverness-shire Black & White Minstrels, Katie McKenzie on Tommy, Aithne Atkinson on disney, Rachael Aiton on Mercedes, Mhari Gribben on Brandy. 
2nd fife Hunt Bays and Greys, Jemma Christie on Hopper, Catherine Macrae on Snips, Rebecca Cowan on Rudi, Colleen Macrae on Trooper. 
3rd Fife Hunt Divas, Caitlin Wood on Tara, Aileen Rodwell on Bilbo, Holly Forgan on Connie, Lauren McKinney on Cinders. 

 

Pony Club Show - 28 May 2006.  The show day went very well once again, many thanks particularly to Alison McRobbie (and Nikki) who organised the show, for all their work.  The rain held off, and the sun and the wind make their presence felt.  Big entries were enjoyed in nearly every class, with a lot of fun being had by lots of mums, dads, children and other adults alike.  A record late finish time of 8pm was testament to the quantity of the show-jumping entries!  The results can be viewed on the link below. 

Games Interbranch 2006 - hosted by Angus at Carnoustie.  We took four full teams this year which gave a lot of members a chance to "have a go" and have some fun.  Click on the link below to see a full report of how we got on.  There are also a few photos on the 2006 Photos link. 

Click here to view the Full Results of the 2006 Pony Club Show
The Winners of the 3'6
Click here to get a full report of the Games Interbranch 2006
 Click here to view the results of the Team Show Jumping 29 Jan 2006

2006 PONY CLUB NATIONAL QUIZ CHAMPIONS
 
The quiz team have achieved a wonderful win at the National
Championship at Morton Morrell on Sunday 9th April - how fantastic! Congratulations
to Catherine, Colleen, Caitlin and Ruth - the different format
obviously wasn't a problem. We're looking forward to hearing all
about it. Thanks too to Dave Raine - team chauffeur and manager - he
was awarded a prize too! 
 
Kingdom Trophy Suceess - Thursday 23 March. 
Our show jumping team of Lorna & Camilla Balfour, Helen Summersgill and Emily Keith kept their cool brilliantly last night, despite a very tricky course which caused other teams all sorts of problems and Sandra's deliberately distracting commentary - they finished on a zero score and won the Kingdom Trophy for the third year running!
Well done girls - all that winter league practice & training  has really paid off!  
 
 
The Quiz Team wins the Area 1 Final
 
From Ruth and Lyn  
   After successfully progressing through the preliminary rounds, our team of, Catherine, Colleen and Caitlin Macrae and Ruth Elliott, took part in the area quiz finals hosted by Deeside Pony Club at Crathes, Aberdeenshire. We battled through many challenging rounds emerging victorious. As a result we qualified for the National Finals This is the first time Fife Hunt Pony Club have ever got this far!
   Our Mini Team of Louise Howat, Hannah Cheape, Jemma Christie and Emma Cheape coped very well with some rather tough questions and came a commendable fourth.
   A wonderful time was enjoyed by all. Many thanks to the hosts, Deeside P.C.