DEESIDE BRANCH OF THE PONY CLUB December 2012 …

Deeside Newsletter DECEMBER

Deeside Pony Club Committee Contact details

District Commissioner Jane Jeffries

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883884

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Chief Instructor

Jackie Taig

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912953

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Treasurer Janet Campbell

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820938

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Secretary Helen Ratcliffe-Smith

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869564

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Membership Sue McHardy

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Health & Safety Joan Watt

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642098

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Tetrathlon/Triathlon Dorothy Burnett

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886680

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Club Merchandise Claire Lane

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844003 [email protected]

Committee Member Mary Robertson

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Committee Member and

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Hazel Ferguson

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Committee Member Debbie McKenzie

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DEESIDE BRANCH OF THE PONY CLUB

December 2012 Newsletter

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Dear Deeside Members, Another year and come and almost gone; Deeside has gone from strength to strength with many new members and some great successes. Over the summer our Dressage teams did an amazing job, with 5 members going to the Pony Club Dressage Championships, first time ever Deeside sent a team. Well done girls a fantastic effort for the club. Camp went ahead despite the very late change of venue due to flooding at Auchlishie. Cabin did us proud and all attending members seem to really have a great time. This gave us the confidence to run a shorter October camp which was also very well attended and had a similar weather theme to the first – Rain! As a branch Deeside have continued to offer a varied disciplines and activities, some are going very well while other struggle to get much support. The committee really needs you, the members to let us know which disciplines you are keen to get involved in. Please take time to look at the Pony Club web site www.pcuk.org and see what Pony Club can do and give us some feedback. Over the winter we will hold our rallies at Loanhead and in the Spring we will return to our usual field at Cullerlie Farm Park. We will be outdoors again just as soon as the weather is good enough. The winter rallies will be taught by Calum Macdonald; who is well respected Show jumping Instructor and a variety of others depending on the attendees. We are keen to know who you enjoy teaching you at rallies so again please let us know if you have enjoyed any particular instructors or have suggestions of new Instructors we could try. 2013 should see a number of you ready to take your next Test and we will plan to test E, D and D+ at specific rallies. C and C+ will have scheduled test dates and B and above will be run by Area 1. We will share the dates just as soon as they are planned. Make sure you get all the training you can in for which ever test you hope to take. Merry Christmas and a Happy 2013 to you all! Regards Jane.

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RALLIES From Spring to October rallies are ‘All day rallies’ and run from 10.30am to 3.30pm at the Pony Club field, Cullerlie Farm Park. With one or two exceptions when we need to vacate our field. During an all day rally you will ride in the morning and afternoon getting the chance to do flatwork and jumping. Do stable management in preparation for and you will probably have the chance to do games or some other fun activity if you wish. You also get a chance to catch up with all your pals over a picnic lunch. Winter rallies are held indoors and this year will be at Loanhead Equestrian. The indoor rallies are split into groups of similar age and standard depending on the attendees at the rally. The committee tries to send out the times and group members no later than the Thursday before. Sometimes due to bad weather of ice we have to cancel the indoor rallies. This decision is always made with safety in mind and usually due to icy conditions in the car park of the venue. During bad weather it is always worth calling one of the committee before you set off to ensure we are going ahead. To book your place at any rally you need to complete the appropriate Rally Slip and send it with your payment to Jackie Taig at least 7 days before the rally date. Rally slips are emailed out, included in the Newsletters and we hope to make them available via the Branch website soon. Our new Treasurer Janet is also investigating how we can update our system for paying for rallies but until we have that worked out please keep sending cheques with your rally slips. Don’t forget to use your ‘Free Rally Voucher’ you earned by helping with the end of season field clear up! The Christmas Rally will be at Loanhead on 30th December, so dust off your tinsel and festive fancy dress and come along for some fun. This rally is free to all members but please send slips in as usual.

INSTRUCTORS AT RALLIES During 2012 we used a wide range of Instructors at our rallies and camps and they are listed below.

Lucy Bailey Kirsty Blackmore

Dorothy Burnett John Crawford

Alison Fellows Julia Gourlay

Sue Hendry Jane Jeffries

Eilidh Middleton Anne Ratcliffe

Mark Smith Alice Strang Steel

Jackie Taig Jane Valentine

We are keen to use a variety of instructors again during 2013. Please let us know if there is an instructor you are keen for us to use.

INSTRUCTORS LUNCHS AT RALLIES It is a long held tradition that we provide a nice lunch for the Instructors who teach at our branch rallies. Each family takes a turn throughout the year. Lunch doesn’t need to be anything fancy. We usually provide sandwiches or filled rolls, some salad, crisps, fruit and nice piece of cake or something sweet.


Claire Lane is our lunch co-ordinator and will be contacting people to arrange who can provide lunch on which date and will answer any questions you have about lunch.

2012 DEESIDE ANNUAL GYMKHANA RESULTS Class 1a Best Turned Out Leadrein 1st Lexi Ewing Aero DPC 2nd Annie Taylor Mini Muffin DPC 3rd Jack Humphrey Luke 4th Abigail Burdass Bertie 5th Kacie Burdass Zed Class 1b Equitation Leadrein 1st Annie Taylor Mini Muffin DPC 2nd Abigail Burdass Bertie 3rd Jack Humphrey Luke 4th Kacie Burdass Zed 5th Lexi Ewing Aero DPC Class 2a Best Turned Out 10yrs & Under 1st Milly Pearson Red DPC 2nd Tara Humphrey Coco DPC 3rd Maddie Taylor Mighty Monty DPC 4th Rebecka Gibb The Sporran APC 5th Zara Gauld Rocky DPC 6th Roan Grant Toby DPC Class 2b Equitation 10 yrs & Under 1st Freya Hartley Arran DPC 2nd Milly Pearson Red DPC 3rd Maddie Taylor Mighty Monty DPC 4th Tara Humphrey Coco DPC 5th Katrina Seaton Wait A Minty DPC 6th Prue Scott Peppermint Park DPC Class 3a/b Best Tuned Out & Equitation 11- 12 yrs 1st Laila Bedawi Sherbet APC 2nd Georgina Campbell Oscar DPC Class 4 a/b Best Turned Out & Equitation 13 – 15yrs 1st Alex Lane Lisbane Blue Peter DPC 2nd Clare Gibson Zak 3rd Flora Allen Megan Class 5a/b Best Turned Out 16yrs & over 1st Cerianne Lindsay Buffalo 2nd Charlotte Robbins Khalevi Class 5b Equitation 16yrs & over 1st Charlotte Robbins Khalevi 2nd Cerianne Lindsay Buffalo


Equitation Champion Alex Lane Reserve Freya Hartley Working Hunter Class 6 1st Milly Pearson Red DPC 2nd Meg Ferguson Fin DPC 3rd Tara Humphrey Coco DPC 4th Tasha Hamilton Cherry Babe APC 5th Melissa Allan Mavis DPC 6th Nicola Howie ILPH Northern Alexander APC Class 7 1st Charley Hamilton Cherry Pie APC 2nd Catriona Mackay Skye DPC 3rd Alex Lane Honey Badger DPC 4th Freya Hartley Arran DPC 5th Clare Gibson Zak DPC Class 8 1st Freya Hartley Arran DPC 2nd Katrina Seaton Wait A Minty DPC 3rd Cerianne Lindsay Buffalo 4th Charlotte Clark Midnight Mischief DPC 5th Leila Bedawi Sherbet APC 6th Gemma Carberry Balamory Class 9 1st Alex Lane Lisbane Blue Peter DPC Champion Charley Hamilton Reserve Freya Hartley Show Jumping Class 11 Leadrein 1st Annie Taylor Mini Muffin DPC 2nd Jack Humphrey Luke DPC Class 12 Mini Minimus 1st Tasha Hamilton Cherry Babe APC 2nd Catriona Mckay Skye DPC 3rd Roan Grant Toby DPC 4th Milly Pearson Red DPC 5th Melissa Allan Mavis DPC 6th Nicola Howie ILPH Northern Alexander DPC Class 13 Minimus 1st Bruce Law Gemini DPC 2nd Jessica Allan Mavis DPC 3rd Alex Lane Honey Badger DPC 4th Maddie Taylor Mighty Monty DPC 5th Ben Matthews Casair DPC


Class 14 Novice 1st Gemma Carberry Balamory 2nd Freya Hartley Arran DPC 3rd Charley Hamilton Cherry Pie APC 4th 5th Katrina Seaton Wait A Minty DPC 6th Cerianne Lindsay Buffalo Class 15 Pairs 1st Freya Hartley & Charlotte Clark 2nd Katrina Seaton & Georgina Campbell Class 16 Intermediate 1st Katrina Seaton Wait A Minty DPC 2nd Georgina Campbell Oscar DPC Handy Pony LeadRein 1st Jack Humphrey 2nd Annie Taylor 1st Ben Matthews 2nd Milly Pearson 3rd Tara Humphrey 4th Ryan Gauld 5th Melissa Allan 6th Prue Scott Games Class 24 1st Charlotte Clark Class 25 1st Alex Lane

TRATHALON AND TETRATHALON ROUND UP FROM DOROTHY Shooting is ongoing at the Burnett Park, Banchory on Tuesday evenings from 5:30pm. On 9th December we have former Pony Club Open Girl Champion Louise Heyler coming to do shooting and running training at the Burnett Park 11am. I am hoping that we will be able to do a monthly session with Louise. Scottish Tetrathlon Winter Series got under way on 3rd November in Aberdeen, as a club we were well represented with some really good results.

Open Girls Rachel Smith was 3rd run, 2nd swim and 2nd overall

Morgan Hartley moved up to Open and was 3rd in swim and 7th overall

Mini Boy Ryan Gauld was 4th shoot, 3rd run 1st swim and 1st overall

Adam Daines competing in only his 2nd Triathlon did very well with 6th shoot,2nd run,5th swim and 5th overall

Mini Girls was a huge class of 24 and Charlotte Clark shot a competition PB of 920 which was only good enough for 4th place, which shows how high the standard is in Mini’s this year, and she finished 7th overall


Freya Hartley finished 9th overall

Katrina Seaton finished 16th overall A few of our members are off to Annan in Dumfriesshire for the 2nd Triathlon on 2nd December and we wish them all good luck. The winter Postal shoot is now under way and once again we have a few members taking part. This competition comprises of shooting three targets per month from Oct to Feb. The children have been put into leagues depending on their average shoot and scores are accumulated and an average taken to decided placings. We once again ran a very successful Triathlon competition at the Burnett Park and Banchory Swimming Pool, although numbers were low we had lots of first timers and the day proved an ideal start for them. Deeside results are below:

Open Boy: 1st Tom Robertson

Mini Boys: 1st Ryan Gauld 2nd Ben Mathews 3rd Adam Daines

Mini Mini Girls: 3rd Milly Pearson 4th Emmy Daines

Intro: 2nd Zara Gauld Any member interested in finding out more about Tri/Tetrathlon contact Dorothy Burnett or Mary Robertson

DEESIDE PONY CLUB OPEN TEAM SHOW JUMPING REPORT Deeside Pony Club held their re-scheduled Open Team Show Jumping at Loanhead Equestrian Centre on Saturday 17th November, and this time the weather was fine, no snow! Due to the moved date there Weren’t so many teams competing, although it was still a busy day. Those who came all went home with a rosette, many also with a prize or two! We are fortunate to have had sponsorship from several local companies; many thanks to:

ARDENE HOUSE VETINARY PRACTICE

GERRY ROBB, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SERVICES, ABOYNE

DUKES VETERINARY PRACTICE, ABOYNE

REAMOIR HOUSE HOTEL & THE MILTON RESTURANT

NORVITE FEEDS, OLDMELDRUM, INSCH & DEESIDE OUTLETS

MINIMUS 1st STONEHAVEN RC ‘YOUNG ONES’ 2ND DEESIDE PC ‘DYNAMOS’ 3RD STONEHAVEN RC ‘CHANCERS’ 4TH KINCARDINE PC ‘KUBS’ NOVICE JNR 1ST STONEHAVEN RC ‘YOUNG ONES’


2ND DEESIDE PC ‘DRAGONS’ 3RD DEESIDE PC ‘DIVAS’ NOVICE SNR 1ST KINCARDINE PC ‘KITTENS’ 2ND STONEHAVEN RC ‘CHANCERS’ 3RD NERC ‘KNIGHT RIDERS’ INTERMEDIATE 1ST BENNACHIE PC ‘GREEN TEAM’ 2ND DEESIDE PC/NERC ‘COMBOS’ 3RD BENNACHIE PC ‘BLUE TEAM’ 4TH NERC ‘A TEAM’ 5TH KINCARDINE PC ‘KATS’ 6TH STONEHAVEN RC ‘THE RUBBER BANDS’ OPEN 1ST NERC ‘A TEAM TAKE TWO’ 2ND KINCARDINE PC ‘KOUGARS’

GAMES UPDATE After what seemed a promising start to the 2012 Games season with many members and their parents keen to get a games team together and go to some of the bigger occasions. We unfortunately find that Games is again low on our members list of pony related activities. We are therefore taking a planned break and will resume Games training in the spring if we have enough interest. Thank you to Fiona, Pam and Lucy for all their effort this year.

DEESIDERS OUT and ABOUT This feature is designed to bring you news of things our Branch members have been up to with their horses outside of the usual club activity. We are really keen to hear from any of you so we can include you in the next newsletter.

Carmen and Bubbles represented Scotland at the British Young Riders Dressage (BYRDS) Home International held at Bishop Burton in the October holiday. They competed at medium level and won the overall pony medium championships.

Carmen was also recently presented with the BYRDS, A squad trophy by Ruth Edge which is the third consecutive year that she has won this.

Well done Carmen!

Useful Internet Links. Loads of Photos of Deeside members.at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1692499@N25/ Help raise club funds at: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/deesidepc/ Our official Branch website http://branches.pcuk.org/deeside/

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DATES 2012 AND 2013

DATE LOCATION RUN BY EVENT SLIPS BY TIME COST Planned

Instructor

SATURDAY 30th

DECEMBER

LOANHEAD DEESIDE XMAS FUN RALLY 30th

DECEMBER

10:30 –

3PM

FREE

SUNDAY 13TH

JANUARY

LOANHED DEESIDE INDOOR RALLY 6TH JANUARY 10:30-

3PM

£20 CALUM AND

JACKIE

TBA JANUARY BANCHORY DEESIDE ANNUAL TROPHY

NIGHT

SATURDAY

26TH JANUARY

LOANHED DEESIDE INDOOR RALLY 19TH

JANUARY

10:30-

3PM

£20 CALUM AND

TBD

SATURDAY 9TH

FEBRUARY

LOANHED DEESIDE INDOOR RALLY 2ND

FEBRUARY

10:30-

3PM

£20 CALUM AND

TDB

SATURDAY

23RD

FEBRUARY

FOUNTAIN AREA 1 &

19

INDOOR CROSS

COUNTRY

TRAINING

1st COME

BASIS

TBA £20 JEN BURNET

SATURDAY

23RD

FEBRUARY

ABERDEENSHI

RE

AREA 1 AREA QUIZ TBA

SUNDAY 24TH

FEBRUARY

LOANHED DEESIDE INDOOR RALLY 16TH

FEBRUARY

10:30-

3PM

£20 CALUM AND

TDB

SUNDAY 24TH

FEBRUARY

FOUNTAIN AREA 1 MOUNTED GAMES

STUDY DAY

1st COME

BASIS

TBA TBA TBA

SUNDAY 10TH

MARCH

LOANHED DEESIDE INDOOR RALLY 3RD MARCH 10:30-

3PM

£20 CALUM AND

TDB

SUNDAY 10TH

MARCH

GLENEAGLES AREA 1 MOUNTED GAMES

DAY

TBA TBA TBA

SATURDAY 16TH

MARCH

TBA AREA 1 QUIZ FINAL

SATURDAY

23RD MARCH

LOANHED DEESIDE INDOOR RALLY 16TH MARCH 10:30-

3PM

£20 CALUM AND

TDB

TUESDAY 9TH

APRIL

DEVERON AREA 1 HORSE & PONY

Care COMP.

SATURDAY 18TH

MAY

STRATHEARN AREA 1 AREA GAMES

SUNDAY 19TH

MAY

STRATHEARN AREA 1 AREA GAMES

FRIENDLY

TBD JULY CULLERLIE

FARM PARK

DEESIDE MINI CAMP 10.30-

3.30

each day

TBD TBD


6TH

- 9TH

JULY

PROVISIONAL

AUCHLISHIE DEESIDE ANNUAL CAMP

TBD JULY CULLERLIE

FARM PARK

DEESIDE P. C.TEST DAY

23RD

– 25TH

JULY

BURGIE AREA 1 AREA 1

INTERBRANCH

27TH

-28TH JULY AUCHLISHIE AREA 1 &

19

AREA 1 & 19

TETRATHALON

5TH – 7TH

AUGUST

AREA 1

SENIOR CAMP

AREA 1

15TH

SEPTEMBER

B TEST AREA 1


RALLY SLIPS

SUNDAY 30th DECEMBER XMAS FUN DAY £20.00

Location:- LOANHEAD

NAME………………………………………

NAME OF HORSE/PONY……………………………

Details: All Welcome – Cheques made payable to Deeside Branch of the Pony Club

Slip to: Jackie Taig, East Quatrains, Drum Oak, AB31 5ER.

Closing Date: 23rd December ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SUNDAY 13th JANUARY INDOOR RALLY £20.00

Location:- LOANHEAD

NAME………………………………………


Details: All Welcome times will be allocated – Cheques made payable to Deeside Branch of the Pony Club

Slip to: Jackie Taig, East Quatrains, Drum Oak, AB31 5ER. Closing Date: 6th January ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SATURDAY 26th JANUARY INDOOR RALLY £20.00

Location:- LOANHEAD

NAME………………………………………



Slip to: Jackie Taig, East Quatrains, Drum Oak, AB31 5ER. Closing Date: 19th JANUARY


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SATURDAY 9th FEBRUARY INDOOR RALLY £20.00

Location:- LOANHEAD

NAME………………………………………




Closing Date: 2nd February ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SUNDAY 24TH FEBRUARY INDOOR RALLY £20.00

Location:- LOANHEAD

NAME………………………………………



Slip to: Jackie Taig, East Quatrains, Drum Oak, AB31 5ER. Closing Date: 16th February ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SUNDAY 10th MARCH INDOOR RALLY £20.00

Location:- LOANHEAD

NAME………………………………………



Slip to: Jackie Taig, East Quatrains, Drum Oak, AB31 5ER. Closing Date: 3rd MARCH


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SATURDAY 23rd MARCH INDOOR RALLY £20.00

Location:- LOANHEAD

NAME………………………………………




Closing Date: 16th MARCH

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