Petplan Equine Area Festival and Sue Carson Saddles Middle Tour Championships 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.
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.
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.
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!
