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Petplan Equine Area Festival and Sue Carson Saddles Middle Tour Championships 2024

  • by Lily Carson
  • 07 Oct, 2024

With a torrential amount of rain experienced at the start of the Championships week it was down to the hard work of the Arena UK grounds team to keep the show on the road! They did just that and an amazing experience was had by all. 

Top Left: Lily Carson with SCS Orlando From Second Life, Top Right: Ben James with Camarilla Calimero, Bottom Left: Hannah MacMillan with Brookeborough Lad and Bottom Right: Rachel Moore with Djaikeh

Torrential rain during the start of the week didn't stop the Championships from going ahead. The decision was made on Tuesday afternoon to  postpone of the outdoor classes on the Wednesday to weekend as the arenas were completely underwater.  With a lot of hard work from the grounds team at Arena UK the arenas had over 120,000 litres of water pumped from them during Tuesday night and by the weekend the site was unrecognisable to the start of the week. Sunshine and smilies were observed over the five days of dressage, with 32 titles in contention, from Prelim to Inter II, including freestyles, and over 700 tests were ridden across four arenas. 

We were delighted to see many of our customers had qualified for this prestigious event and were in with a chance to contest many of the titles on offer. 

Petplan Area Festival Championship Results

Advanced Medium Bronze Freestyle

Julie Wattie Golden Boy II

Elaine Wormwell Finest Midnight Blue


Advanced Medium Silver Freestyle

Amanda Brewer Effort Terwinck

Verity Saul Gaya


Medium Bronze Freestyle

10th - Bethan Young Jackpots Forsetti 66.72%


Medium Silver Freestyle

4th - Hannah MacMillan Brookeborough Lad 68.88%

Hannah Knight Indy Pepper

Elaine Wormwell Finest Midnight Blue

Leanne Dudhill A M Dynamo


Medium Bronze

Megan Lane Kosza


Medium Silver

6th - Hannah MacMillan Brookeborough Lad 68.82%

Leanne Dudhill A M Dynamo

Claire Marshall Samuel II

Harriet Drewery Oosting Amigo

Verity Perry Bianchi


Prix St George Bronze

2nd - Ben James Camarilla Calimero 66.86%

Krystyna Monks Dubai


Elementary Bronze Freestyle

3rd - Rachel Moore Djaikeh 70.38%

5th - Leah Roberts Micro Man 70.38%

Pam Mclean Verity 


Elementary Silver Freestyle

Bethan Young Jackpots Forsetti


Prix St George Silver Freestyle

3rd - Claire Knowles Singing Skyjacker 67.58%

Julie Brazier Daisy Grey II


Elementary Bronze

Rachel Moore Djaikeh

Amelia Ward Tireve Whats Wanted


Elementary Silver

Kathy Staples John Travolta

Megan Lane Kosza


Prix St George Silver

5th - Claire Knowles Singing Skyjacker 65.78%

7th - Emma Littlewood Camacho 64.85%


Novice Bronze Freestyle

Ever Sinfield Day Benmore’s Potluck

Zoe Barclay Coyne Big Apple

Katie Greenwood Asletts Fancy That


Novice Silver Freestyle 

6th - Lily Carson SCS Orlando From Second Life 68.88%


Novice Silver 

Lily Carson SCS Orlando From Second Life


Inter I Bronze

7th - Sofia Jankiewicz Boularouz 65.58%


Prelim Silver Freestyle 

8th - Nina Halls Gianna I 67.68%

Hazel Gunnyeon Nantshan Blades of Glory


Prelim Silver 

6th - Lily Carson SCS Orlando From Second Life 68.47%

9th - Jack Speakman Dwynwen 67.84%

Brooke Howells Starboard Two Step

Hazel Gunnyeon Nantshan Blades of Glory


Prelim Bronze 

Claire Holiday Diamond Opposition

Sue Carson Saddles Middle Tour Championship

Alongside the Petplan Equine Area Festival Championship was the Middle Tour Championship which we were delighted to be title sponsors of for the second year running. The format of the championship involves combinations completing an Inter II test and a freestyle with scores being combined to decide the overall champion. Held on the Saturday evening was the freestyle tests which attracted an audience to see who was going to come out victorious along with many riders who aspire to work their way up the levels who were staying over ready for their Prelim classes on Sunday. 

Chrissie Havis and Beckhouse Piano Blue were the victorious combination in the Silver Section and the Gold section title was taken by Edward Johnson and Ramasjang A.
Silver Champion Chrissie Havis with Beckhouse Piano Blue and Gold Champion Edward Johnson with Ramasjang A
It was wonderful to see so many combinations come forwards in this championship from all over the country, along with our customer Naomi Aguilar and Whitehawk Dancing Fire, from Jersey, Channel Islands, who placed 8th in the Inter II Silver and 11th in the Silver Freestyle, overall finishing in 11th place.
Naomi Aguilar and the 14hh Whitehawk Dancing Fire

Congratulations to all those who took part, you should all be very proud of your hard work, to qualify for this event is an achievement in itself! We wish everyone the best of luck moving forward to the Winter season for whatever challenges or journeys you make embark on. We hope to see many of you returning to competition and out and about very soon!

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