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Current Junior Newsletter : July/August 2008 |
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THE JUNIOR WAY |
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Taken at the BRC dressage event on 17/08/2007 Picture courtesy of Pegasus Images |
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During 2005 Solent Riding Club made a conscious decision to provide more training for its younger members. As the junior section grew, more and more young people took part in the training sessions. Alongside the flatwork and jumping lessons, we added other fun days, which included Mounted Games and an Easter Training Day, both to encourage everyone to come together and get to know each other. We still do these each year. This year in addition to these events, we are also holding a cross-country fun ride in October. One of our aims was to encourage a team of junior members to compete alongside the senior members at various events during the year. In July 2005, we very proudly entered our first Junior Dressage Team, who did a great job for us at the Area 17 competition in Brockenhurst. 2006 has shown more success. In April, we entered 3 individuals to compete in the Dressage to Music qualifiers at Sparsholt, two of our riders qualified for the Championships at Addington, and our Dressage Team in July 2006, after coming 2nd in the qualifiers at Brockenhurst were invited to the finals in Lincoln! (We have yet to enter any show-jumping competitions but we are always on the lookout for young people who are interested). New junior members are always welcome, you do not need to want to be Junior Team member to take part in the junior training; training is available to children from the age of 5 to 17 and we hope that you will use these sessions to get to know each other. The training venues will be local to the area using instructors who are already known to the riding club. There will be a charge for the training sessions although we will keep this to a minimum for the junior sessions. It will be our aim to ensure you are properly prepared prior to any event and we will be there to support you at each competition venue. You can contact me via email for further information or look at the current newsletter at the top of the page and check out the events and training pages for upcoming activities |
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