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WARNING
! Sightings of 2 suspicious men with Eastern European
accents photographing local horses maybe a "steal
to order gang". For details, click
here.
To
sign an e-petition to petition the Prime Minister
to provide funding and use legislation for creation
of new public bridleways, go to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/publicbridleways/
Our Bridleways
Liaison Officer, Lucy Lempriere, will provide regular
updates concerning all matters relevant to our district.
To see the latest report, go to our RESULTS/REPORTS
page.
"The British Horse Society
bites back at dog attacks".... To see the Press
Release, Click
here.
Membership Reminder !!! Subscriptions are now overdue.
Please return your form and subscription to our Membership
Secretary, Mrs Paula Forsyth, Conifer Cottage, East
Street, Rusper, West Sussex RH12 4RE.
Dressage to Music, How To......
We are
planning to arrange a talk and ridden lecture/demo.
The 1st session will be unmounted and will explain
how to find the tempo of your horse's paces and how
to go about choosing the right music. This will then
be put into practise at a mounted session. DTM is
becoming more popular and this will give you the basics
to get started or help to improve your tests. If interested
please email or ring Caroline Exley, stating if you
would prefer a day, evening, weekday or weekend session.
Please
Sponsor a Class..... Can you help?
Our 41st Annual Open Horse Show will be held on Sat
July 5th at Eastlands Farm, Plummers Plain. With 56
classes in 6 rings, the Show is very expensive to
run and we are in need of sponsors at £30 per
class. So please, if you can help us in this way,
we will be very grateful. Alternatively, perhaps you
or your partner runs a business which would like to
support us? A list of Sponsors will appear in the
Show Schedule, but to guarantee inclusion, please
contact Show Organiser, Ros Head (07793 224954) by
15th March when the Schedule goes to print.
Festival of
the Hunter.... See our Events Page. There are team
and individual cross country trials and 7 showing
classes. If you would like to enter any of these,
contact Marilyn
Turner. (Please note the Club will not pay for
entering this Championship.)
EQUESTRIAN
ROAD ACCIDENT STATISTICS AND REPORTING OF ACCIDENTS.
Dear All,
I hope that you
have, and never will be, involved in a road accident
with a horse, but please could you report any accidents/
near misses to the BHS & encourage other riders to
do so. There is a report form available from the BHS
webiste, see:- http://www.bhs.org.uk/content/accident-report-form.asp.
Mark Weston has just assembled the most recent accident
figures reported to the BHS. They show accidents involving
horses are reducing. eg. 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, accidents reported to the BHS were 269,
141, 117, 114, 91, 78, 96, respectively. This could
be due to less reporting, inaccurate reporting, less
road use by equestrians or be genuine. Road accident
statisitics are valuable to argue for more off road
access for equestrians. No accidents reported/occur,
no need for more bridleways!
Janice Bridger, BHS Access & Bridleways officer for
West Berkshire, BHS Access & Bridleways officer for
Southern Region.
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