Two MHRC members did exceptionally well at Broadway BE Horse Trials at the weekend. Camilla Esling and Just Jake kept a cool head in the BE90 Regional Final, finishing 5th in their section on their dressage score of 35...AND QUALIFYING FOR THE 2011 BADMINTON GRASSROOTS CHAMPIONSHIP!!! Brilliant!
For anyone not familiar with the Grassroots Championships, the competition brings together winners from BE90 and BE100 regional qualifiers around the country to contest the overall championship, which is held just before the main 4* Badminton in May. The course is really like a smaller version of the main one! You can read more about it here
Well done Camilla - what an achievement in what has got to be the most exciting equestrian discipline...not that I'm biased!
Sue Peckham and Tims Choice also had a cracking day, notching up a speedy XC round to finish 10th in their BE90 section. Well done them!
Shame about the third member (me) picking Regional Final day to finally realise that Mac had been trying to tell me he's got a sore back since twisting over a huge ditch-hedge at Dauntsey 2 weeks previously :( So some physio for him and then, roll on March!
For anyone not familiar with the Grassroots Championships, the competition brings together winners from BE90 and BE100 regional qualifiers around the country to contest the overall championship, which is held just before the main 4* Badminton in May. The course is really like a smaller version of the main one! You can read more about it here
Well done Camilla - what an achievement in what has got to be the most exciting equestrian discipline...not that I'm biased!
Sue Peckham and Tims Choice also had a cracking day, notching up a speedy XC round to finish 10th in their BE90 section. Well done them!
Shame about the third member (me) picking Regional Final day to finally realise that Mac had been trying to tell me he's got a sore back since twisting over a huge ditch-hedge at Dauntsey 2 weeks previously :( So some physio for him and then, roll on March!