Tests
If there are any members wanting to take R&R Test or Badges, D, D+, C or C+ tests, can you please let me know so that we can arrange dates and tuition.( I do have a list of all members who have already contacted me). D, D+ & C Tests will be at the end of May.
Recommended ages are:
- D 8 years,
- D+ 10 years,
- C 11 years and
- C+ 13 years.
- Mini Riding & Road Safety Badge must be achieved BEFORE D & D+ tests
- Riding & Road Safety Badge or Test must be achieved BEFORE C & C+ tests.
Please ensure you have the relevant R&R if you are hoping to take any tests while at camp.
Thanks … Iona garethion@hotmail.com before 14th April. Please!
Congratulations
to Morgan & Rhiannon Elsmore on gaining the Blue Cross Equine Badge recently.
Dressage Competition … Details on the Main PC website.
Pony Club are running an online dressage championship from April to July – link here
Please contact me if you are interested … Iona garethion@hotmail.com
Dressage Clinic
Due to cancellation, I have one free slot at the dressage clinic with Paul Davies on Sat 13th April at Mostyn Farm. This is a 45min individual session at a cost of £12.50.
Please email penny@greenlion.co.uk if you would like the place. You do not need previous dressage experience to benefit from the lesson.
It will be first come, first served and you will need to get payment to me before Saturday.
Penny Lynch (penny@greenlion.co.uk)
Hunt Relay
Please could you pass this information onto the relevant person who would deal with organising Hunt Relay Teams
We are doing a junior under 16’s hunt relay open to hunts and the pony clubs. Pony Club Invite Hunt Relay letter
Many Thanks … Julie Finney … 07970693754
Fun Ride
Please find attached details FUN RIDE 14th of the next fun ride to take place at Peover Hall on Sunday 14th April.
Clwyd Welsh Pony & Cob Society
YOUNG PEOPLES DAY Sat 27th April. 
Blue Cross Update
Pony Club April 2013
National Equine Health Survey 5–11 May
It is that time of year to sign up to NEHS. There are some great prizes to be won as well which include: Ariat boots, jump wings, Royal Vet College tour, 3 x £100 Spillers vouchers and Olympia tickets!
Survey information
Blue Cross, as you may already be aware, runs the National Equine Health Survey (NEHS) in partnership with the British Equine Veterinary Association. Now held annually, the next survey is scheduled for 5–11 May 2013 and we would be delighted if you could help us encourage as many owners and keepers of horses, ponies, donkeys and mules in the UK to take part.
NEHS has been running for two years and is helping us to discover more about common health issues in horses, such as coughs, skin diseases and lameness, with the aim of improving the health and welfare of horses in the UK in the future. Professor Josh Slater, professor of equine clinical studies at the Royal Veterinary College, has been working with Blue Cross on the survey and he interprets the data. The results will be accessible to all supporting organisations.
To secure the long-term success of NEHS, it is essential that a culture change in the UK horse industry is achieved to make “NEHS Week” a fixture on the calendar of all UK horse owners. This can only be achieved if all sectors of the horse industry buy in to NEHS and support and promote participation to their members. We are on the cusp of success and of achieving a level of endemic disease surveillance not achieved in any European country, but we are not there yet.
How can you help?
Helping promote
To make it easy for you to help promote this worthwhile cause to your members and supporters we are putting together a special NEHS participation toolkit. This will include:
- news stories for newsletters
- posters and leaflets
- pro forma social media “reminder” campaign
- endorsements from celebrity riders
- prize incentives for participants
Taking part
To take part simply visit our website and register now. A reminder email will be sent to you before the survey opens. During the week of 5–11 May simply log on and complete the survey about your horse’s health during the snapshot week.
To find out more or to order the participation toolkit please contact me at Gemma.Taylor@bluecross.org.uk or NEHS@bluecross.org.uk. You can also visit www.bluecross.org.uk/NEHS
Blue Cross, Shilton Road, Burford, Oxfordshire OX18 4PF Tel: 01993 822651 www.bluecross.org.uk
Registered charity no: 224392 (England and Wales), SC040154 (Scotland)
EA7134/0313
AREA 5 Tetrathlon Committee
Tetrathlon Training (XC and Shooting)
Mostyn Farm, Wed May 29th
XC Instruction by Louise Shepherd.
Names to Meg Green 07717413105
(Approx 1 hour XC plus 1 hour shooting for £15/20 depending on numbers) … Guns can be supplied.
