The dressage event scheduled for 24 April has been moved a week later to Sunday 1st May. We hope this does not inconvenience those who have signed up already.
You can enter up to Wednesday 27th April in the evening using the revised form at hodgemoor_winter_dressage_series_2021-2_entry_form_rev_19apr22
I stole this pic off Georgie’s Facebook, thanks! Olivia Warner, Sienna Chambers, Georgie Anne Gammage and Sara Caley (pictured here at Austens) hacked from Dibden Hill which is off Narcot Lane between St Giles and St Peter.
The image on the right is of Sacha Hamilton in competition, but not in the Hodgemoor event! She was the judge for us.
Come for an enjoyable go at our popular Trec event. Competitors enter singly but can go round with a friend. There is a choice of either 2 or 3 phases. The obstacle course will be emailed to entrants so they can learn the route which saves time on the day. Entries close Wednesday 13 April in the evening.
Homefarm Orchard, Kirby Close, Chalfont St Giles HP8
Easter Monday 18 April, 2022. 10am to 1 pm
Download the entry form here
Download a sample Phase 1 and 2 plan (2018 event), to get an idea
This looks like fun and the Thames Valley Air Ambulance is a service which any one of us riders might have to use one day. The Ukraine Appeal is close to everyone’s hearts. Our thanks to Jenny Owen of the ROTARY CLUB OF JORDANS & DISTRICT for opening it up to us.
Charity Film Night, Thursday April 21st, 2022 7.00pm for 8.00.pm. ‘West Side Story’– produced and directed by Steven Spielberg Pinewood Studios (John Barry Theatre) Pinewood Road, Iver Heath, SL0 0NH. For tickets contact Jenny Owen 01494 677571/ 07707 386415 Cost £16 to include a glass of wine and nibbles – cheques payable to Jordans Rotary Trust
Download the A4 mini poster to display, here
SATURDAY, 9 JULY 2022 AT 19:00
Grand barn dance, hog roast and 21st birthday party
Drink, dine and dance with the Hodgemoor Riding Association
Flexmore Farm, Bottrells Lane entrance, Chalfont St Giles HP8 4NT.
You are invited to a big party to celebrate the creation of our Association in 2001 and the contribution everyone in the riding community has made to creating such an extraordinary outdoor facility and community spirit.Just £20 per person to include merriment, hog roast, live band The Austin 7 with popular cover music. Costs underwritten by your Hodgemoor Riding Association
Drinks and alcohol sold for cash on the night; no bring-your-own please. Covered barn, tables and chairs provided. We invite you to have lots of fun but please drink responsibly and respect Stephen and Vicky Hind’s very kind use of their barn and facilities to us. Music ends 11pm, doors close midnight. We will be raising money for Cancer Research and a Charity supporting a teaching hospital in India due to band donating their fee.
Bookings are now open for any number of tickets and for tables of 10. Please email Francesca at francesca_jones@hotmail.com with your name, phone number, email address, the number of tickets, the names of the guests and whether you would like the vegetarian option. For a table of 10, please pay £200, without which we are not holding a table for you. To pay, please transfer to Hodgemoor Riding Association at Barclays Bank 90054410 sort code 20-02-06. Put your family name and PARTY as the reference please. Bank transfer is our preference; otherwise you can pay by PayPal to info@hodgemoor.org.uk.
Dressage this morning was friendly and full of qualities… hacking down Narcot Lane for some and then negotiating a fallen tree, warming up in the arena just before one’s test, braving the quacking ducks and the silent black pussy cat and enjoying some hours out before the rain started. Thank you so much Jenien Cunningham and her merry band of helpers for organising, to Dawn Fleming for judging and to Shona Fraser for writing. It was a smaller field than usual, mainly because of the roadwork needed to hack there, but the standard of tests and the community spirit shone through. As we pass the half-way mark in our 7-event series, we have had over 100 entries and raised £1400. The updated series points table is at the bottom.
Get the results in an Excel spreadsheet here
The winners in the Intro Class were Emily Everitt in section A and overall, and Sky Collett in the Teen section. There were two competitors in the Prelim Class, one in A (inexperienced riders – Skye Collett) and one in B (open, Monique Millington) so they each got a 1st place rosette from Susie Bicknell’s Save-the-world Rosette-Recycyling initiative, and Skye, of course, got the Teen win. Marcus Bicknell won the Open Novice and Charlie Harper took Section A honours.
A special mention to Sarah Caley for coming on her huge 17h3 horse black Jack who has only been with her 10 days, and then doing her first dressage test ever, on any horse. Nick walked with Sarah from Dibden Hill… thanks. And Monique Millington did a long route all the way from Austens to Grove, leading Laika “The Ginge” down tricky Twitchells Lane and getting on for the rest of the way to do her first dressage test in 2 years.
I have updated the series standings and you can download them at the following MS Excel link. We have three classes each with two sections and the leaders are Charlotte Bodega, Nicky West, Mia Okuyama, Jaimi Roehrig, Lucy Butler and Charlotte Fleming (the same as after the last round, at Oldefields). The scoring was initially a plain average of scores including zeroes (for an event at which a rider did not compete) but that would have un-necessarily marked down a good rider who cannot do every event. We have therefore established rankings on the average of the points the rider scored when they competed plus a 1 percentage point bonus to incentivise riders to compete in as many rounds as possible. 4 rounds down, 3 to go. Please look at your series scores NOW and contact me with comments or errors… marcus@bicknell.com. Corrections can be made if you let us know within a month of the event (within a week of the penultimate event and within a day of the last event!). You can download the updated series points table here. I anticipate trophy and junior awards at the 21st birthday party 9th July.
Our next dressage event is at Highclere between St.Giles and Seer Green on Sunday 27 March. There are spaces available. Entry forms at …https://hodgemoor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hodgemoor_winter_dressage_series_2021-2_entry_form-rev-27Jan.docx
The Hodgemoor Winter Dressage Series December 2021 to April 2022. The Hodgemoor Riding Association, in cooperation with local yards, presents a fund-raising series of 7 dressage events (the first 2 were in December, results at www.hodgemoor.org.uk News) for adult and younger riders hacking to the events. Two events having taken place in December, the further 5 events are as follows. The tests for each are on the newly-issues entry form. Note the Covid restrictions below.
There is plenty of space for competitors in all five events. Please help us promote them by printing out our A4 poster and displaying it your yard for others to see… hodgemoor_winter_dressage_series_A4_poster_Feb2022
Sunday 6th March at Oldefields
Sunday 13th March at Grove Farm
Sunday 27th March at Highclere
Sunday 10th April at Austens Farm.
Sunday 24th April at Widmer Equestrian
The entry form with the new dates is at https://hodgemoor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hodgemoor_winter_dressage_series_2021-2_entry_form-rev-27Jan.docx
Although the UK Government has relaxed Covid restrictions, we wish to protect our community and livery staff from the virus. It is a condition of entry that you respect the following requirements:
No-one should come to an event if they are testing positive or have covid-like symptoms.
Enquiries to hodgemoor.events@gmail.com
Here are the results of the Hodgemoor Winter Dressage on Sunday 19th December 2021 at Manor Farm, Seer Green
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Explanatory notes are at the bottom of the table on this Excel spreadsheet
The Hodgemoor Riding Association takes its reponsibilities seriously, especially when your health and your safety is concerned (safety in the woods, safety on the roads, cyclists, motor-bikes and quads etc). We are not a registered charity (which would impose onerous cost, tax and regulatory issues); we are a Charitable Unincorporated Association under the United Kingdom’s 2011 Charities Act. Nonetheless, as part of our self-imposed corporate governance, we voluntarily publish our annual accounts, AGM minutes, agreement with Forestry England etc., which you can see at https://hodgemoor.org.uk/downloads/.
Our committee member resonsible for Health & Safety and Safeguarding, Dawn Fleming, has completed four policy statements and we publish them here, links below, and on the documents page of this web site. If you are involved in helping at our events, the documents are obligatory reading.
hodgemoor_health_and_safety_policy
hodgemoor_event_risk_assessment
hodgemoor_covid19_risk_assessment
Risk Assessments have been done for the Hodgemoor Winter Dressage events currently running, tailored to each event, and Dawn has prepared the generic ones for publication here.
We thank Dawn warmly for this work.
Marcus Bicknell, Chairman, Hodgemoor Riding Association.
16 December 2021 updated 31 January 2022