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Littleport & District News

LPC and the Area Quiz on March 7^th

• Team one win 1^st place at Prickwillow.
• Team two came 4^th at Beccles.

The first round took place on Friday 7^th March. We had two teams entered, one at Prickwillow Village Hall where LPC were the hosts and the other at Beccles. The team competing at Prickwillow won their heat and are now through to the next round. Very well done to Kayleigh Shepperson, Abigail Runciman, Rhea Macleod and Chloe Saberton. The team competing at Beccles were running third until near the end of the quiz, but finished the competition in fourth place. A good effort from Maddison Retallick, Rosie Peck, Victoria White and Claudia Maclean.

LPC at the ILPH SJ Competition on February 12^th

• Senior team win 1^st place in their first class.
• Nikki Hopkin collects individual 6^th place in junior team's second class.

Littleport Pony Club entered two teams, each of four riders, at the ILPH show jumping competition on February 12^th. Lucy Morley also competed, but as an individual club member. As can be seen in some of the photographs, it was so foggy at the start of the day you couldn't see across the warm up area! However the weather improved and surely this helped everyone's enthusiasm.

Team 1	Michaela Thulborn, Natalie Mellers, Rosie Peck and Nikki Hopkin. Lucy Morley rode as an individual club member.
Team 2	Polly West, Rhea Macleod, Claudia Maclean and Beth Runciman

The first class for team one was 2'3". Michaela, Natalie and Rosie each ended on eight faults, whilst Nikki collected just four. Lucy went clear and so took part in the jump off, where she had just one down.
The second class was not quite so tidy for Michaela with Morgan, but Natalie and Rosie ended the round on just four faults each whilst Nikki had a clear round. Nikki also went clear in the jump off and was placed 6^th overall. Very well done Nikki.

In the first round for team two, everyone went clear except Polly, and she had one down. Littleport were one of the few teams needed for the jump off, and were told only the clear rounds compete as the competitor with the most faults gets dropped. Anyway, this is when it all got muddled as Rhea had warmed up to go first but was announced as Polly, then Claudia went as Beth, then Beth as Claudia! Polly did get to do the jump off, but she was announced as Rhea. The team had a great laugh at such a muddle, but then when they announced Littleport as the winners, the team was over the moon. That has definitely put Littleport on the map. There were twenty three other Pony Clubs Competing that day.
The next class didn't go so well, the horses were tired (so were the riders) and a few fences were knocked down. This meant the team didn't have a low enough total to be in the running for a place. A blessing in disguise as it meant we could load up and go home as by this time it was about 4 pm. We didn't get home 'till 5.30.

Very well done to all the girls, and hopefully we can get some more Pony Club team and individual places under our belts in the coming months.

Many thanks to Emma West and to Anita and Michaela Thulborn for providing write-up on the day's show jumping, my apologies for mangling their text into a single article. Many thanks also to Zoe Wilsher for very kindly providing photographs of the day.

ILPH "Make a noise" campaign

The ILPH are running a campaign to stop the terrible suffering of horses as they are illegally transported within Europe.  If you would like to help the ILPH, visit the Make A Noise section of their web site and join the campaign.

(BHS) CountrySide Rights Of Way Act

The BHS launched a petition on the Prime Minister's web site, asking that horses are taken into account in any future access legislation.  In Wales and Scotland, riders will be getting rights to beaches and the coast, but in England the Government is only considering walkers at the moment.  More information from the BHS is available here, which includes their "Sign the equestrian access petition!" link.  If you prefer to write about your aims and objectives, this is the direct link to the PM's web site.

Area 8 competitions in 2008

Littleport Pony Club will be entering teams for the Area 8 horse trials, to be held sometime in early August.  More details to follow as soon as I have them.

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