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Summer Holidays

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Our Summer Holidays activities are over for this year and a busy summer its been as well, The weather has been extremely good for us all of our shows have gone ahead outdoors this year, (up until last week) We managed to run all three mini hunter trials, brilliant weather for the Open Day and another important time weather wise was the Champs in Derby as we were staying on the showground for 3 days in the lorry and tents, rain was forecast but we only had one small shower and it rained once in the night. Camps we didn’t have great weather for, not too bad but we weren’t able to get out into the fields at all. I think everyone enjoyed the camps though, they are good fun if not somewhat tiring when some of them don’t go to sleep till 3am (Libby and Freya). We finished our activities for this summer holidays with our Riding School show jumping for Clients last friday. We held several of these events through the holidays but the last one is always run by the Pony Club Committee to raise funds towards the Halloween Party (Sat Oct 30th) Children and Teenagers tend to take part but this time we had two (nervous) adults who decided to have a go. They came dressed the part Polo shirts and cream jodphurs and after much discussion as to whether they would look silly being beaten by six year olds they opted to go for a bit bigger classes. Sharon settled for the 1ft 9 but Julie decided to go for a bigger class 2ft. First though as a bit of a warm up they decided to go in the pairs. Julie went first jumping a clear round on Phoebe well nearly a clear round after coming to a halt in front of fence three then Sharon went next, I think the excitement got the better of Sharon, I was standing by the double ready to take a picture of Sharon jumping fence six but Sharon got a little lost and jumped the double backwards (needs a Sat Nav I think). Both did extremely well – but were beaten by the youngsters. Pictures on the Talygarn Face book page. The show was fairly busy and the Pony Club Members sold cakes to boost their funds. Photos http://www.talygarnec.co.uk/Gallery.php Two Horses have gone this summer. Both have been here a few years. Lizzie we have sold and Athena has gone home. Fun Dog Show next Sunday Sept 5th 1pm also being run by the Pony Club Centre. Lots of fun classes and clear round agility.

Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 1:18 am You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

The Pony Club Championships 2010

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

The Pony Club Championships are held in Derby in August. This year our senior horse care team consisting of Chloe Reakes, Carys Morgan and Sarah Blake won the area round back in April and qualified for the champs. We also had Carys Morgan taking part in the Dressage to Music and our Centre team taking part in the Centre Equitation team competition. As the competitions were on different days we decided to travel up on the Sunday and camp on the showground. We arrived on the showground at 12 noon settled Fred and Lucky into their stables. The senior team got themselves ready and then we went to declare for the Horse care competition. This competition is a series of tests based on practical ability and knowledge covering topics including plaiting, traveling, feeds, lunging, bits etc. 21 teams took part. I believe we were the only Centre to qualify (branch members have their own horses, Centre members do not own horses but have to rely on a riding school for their skills and knowledge) The girls felt the rounds went well and were very pleased to receive 5th place rosettes. Monday was an early start as Carys’ Dressage to Music time was 9.38. Fred had to be plaited and spotlessly turned out. Carys rode her test to music from Lady GaGa and the timing was perfect. Unfortunately Carys and Fred were just outside the places but again Carys was the only Centre member competing against Branch members. Tuesday was another early start for the Centre Equitation Competition. This competition is only for Centre members and it comprises of 2 junior members age 12 and under and 2 senior members age 13 and over, both juniors ride the same pony in a round of dressage and show jumping and both senior members ride the same horse. There were 23 teams taking part. Each member has a score for their dressage and a score for their jumping (jumping is marked on style, position, use of arena, balance etc) the scores for the two disciplines are added together and the three highest scores added to give the final score, each team member is in a different section competing for individual prizes in their section as well as the overall team prizes. Our Talygarn team were Juniors Zoe Morgan Section A Molly Groves Section B riding Lucky and Seniors Chloe Reakes Section C, Sarah Blake Section D riding Fred. All the riders rode very nice dressage tests Chloe and Molly had the 2nd highest dressage scores in their sections. After the Dressage came the show jumping Molly and Zoe jumped very nice accurate rounds but we were a bit disappointed that their marks weren’t higher than what they were given. Chloe and Sarah jumped exceptionally good rounds and received very high marks. At the presentation Zoe was 6th in section A Molly 9th in section B Chloe 1st in section C and Sarah 1st in section D. The overall winning team was TALYGARN. We are so proud of them and it was great to see them on the podium presented with their Sashes, Salvers Trophies and Rosettes It is a big achievement to be the best 4 out of 92 riders and a Huge well done to Team Trainer Amelia Rogers who gave so much of her time and lots of support to the team. Pics on www.talygarnec.co.uk/gallery

The Winners

Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 2:47 am You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

****** Computers

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Computers are great when they’re working but a nightmare when they don’t and mine hasn’t been working properly for ages, hence no blogs. The speed is so slow it takes days to open a page. Trying to get it fixed is the problem the BT call centre in India try to confuse you with all sorts of attempts to fix things over the phone. I tried to tell them it was a line fault not an internal fault eventually they sent out an engineer and discovered it was a line fault. So hopefully we are back on line again. Today we have travelled to the Pony Club Championships in Derby taking Fred and Lucky with us. We have 5 centre members taking part in Horse Care, Dressage to Music and Centre Equitation. Weather is good today but I’m told its going to rain the next 2 days.

Posted on Sunday, August 15th, 2010 at 4:18 pm You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Whitsun Half Term

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Well its certainly been a very busy Whitsun Half Term, after a very successful Mini Hunter Trial last weekend, Amelia jumped in Llandeilo on Monday at the Area 36 BSJA on Leo. The cross country clinic was cancelled Tuesday due to the rain but went ahead on Thursday so we had a bareback jumping practise instead, Mini Pony Club and Pony Days went well and we held the riding school client show jumping in the outdoor arena on Friday and also the Wed Mini Show Jumping was held outdoors. I am hoping to hold all the show jumping during the summer in the outdoor arena unless its raining, although the temptations to eat sausage and chips is greater than eating the Burgers so not so good for my diet. We also managed a Polocrosse practise this week for the open day (Sunday 11th July) and lessons as well. Sunday we took Leo to another Area 36 BSJA show in Carmarthen where Amelia won the 1.05m Adventurer qualifier for Scope in September. Leo doesn’t travel well on his own so I took Jimbob with him today just to ride around the showground, Steve got on him while I took pictures of Amelia and I never got him back. My garden is going well since I got the greenhouse. I have strawberries lettuce broad beans runner beans carrots potatoes cucumber peppers corgettes tomatoes and grapes growing, although I think its too windy here so I’m thinking of getting a massive Polytunnel. Maybe I should give up riding lessons and turn the whole place into a garden centre!!!!

Posted on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 11:05 am You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Easter Holidays

Monday, April 12th, 2010

What a fantastic Easter Holidays we’ve had at Talygarn. The week before Easter Talygarn were placed third in Warwick at the National Quiz Final with our Centre quiz team. The Dressage finals at Talygarn were on April the fourth and Kate Owen and Hannah Centre member from Talygarn won one of the classes. Our Horse Care Senior team qualified for the Championships in Derby. This week was the finals for the Team Jumping series. Talygarn teams won the points for 4 out of the 5 classes with Glamorgan Pony Club winning the last class. There can’t be many riding schools that can put together 10 teams who have held their own competing against pony clubs and riding clubs, these riders don’t have any extra lessons or help its just what they learn in their lessons and their own motivation to be here and take part in competitions. All of the teams from Talygarn did well picking up placings and wins throughout the series. Team jumping pics can be found on the Gallery. Pony Days, Mini Pony Club and Show Jumping for Riding school clients have all gone well during the holidays. Mini Pony Club for 4 to 6yr olds will be starting back next saturday, and will be fortnightly from 2pm to 3pm. Kelly Galsworthy runs the yard every other Sunday and she’s brill, its the one day I don’t have to have anything to do with the yard and after such a busy Easter hols it was nice to have that day today. We built a chicken run Saturday night, well when I say built I mean put together from a flat pack. Although it was impressive we managed to follow all the instructions with Sharon’s help (Sharon wants chickens and hasn’t got any so she is trying to muscle in on mine) We did have quite a few screws left over so thats a bit worrying but never mind perhaps they gave us extras. I painted it with wood preserver today So now I just need to get the chickens. Jimbob has been hacking out over the hols and we have progressed to the main road now. I took him out for over an hour this morning with Libby and Freya and he is very good going over the motorway bridges although I had no brakes at all cantering behind Freya, I’m glad to say at least he stopped when she did. Will have to do something about that. Managed to get lunch in the pub, do some gardening and even went to my Salsa Class tonight. Back in Student/Lesson mode next week and Show jumping next Sunday.