Our thanks to Xanthe for sending in a report and some pictures. We're always please to receive news from members - more please!! Congratulations to our members too.
Mike
On the 5th of July two teams of brilliant Southdown Hunt East members competed at the area dressage competition. We took two teams - Alice Reffin, Chloe Fry and Sophie Duffield made up the Gold team; Xanthe Fairhead, Francesca Fairhead, Eleanor Reffin and Livvy Logan made up the Navy team. Everyone was amazing and really supportive of each other and because of this we had some great results. Sophie finished 5th, Chloe also did very well coming 6th and Alice 8th. As a combined effort, the whole team finished a very creditable 5th out of 26 teams. Well done!! Although the Navy team didn't get placed everyone did brilliantly; Cesca was on a new horse and it was his 3rd ever test, Livvy did really well on a borrowed pony, Eleanor came an excellent 3rd, and I was amazed to discover that Louis and I had won our arena and qualified for the championships as an individual though unfortunately I won't be able to make the finals. There was a really good team atmosphere and all the mums made a combined effort to create the best picnic ever. We were very lucky to have Polly Thom (with baby Florence) and Anne Cook there to support us. Thank you everyone for a lovely day and can't wait to see you at camp.
Xanthe
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