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Latest News & Announcements
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Another 100,000 litres of water is applied to the Show Jump Arena
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Watering continues – 200,000 litres onto the dressage arenas
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How do you get a cross country fence into a Waitrose store?
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The answer, is with great difficulty. But it happened
and this is the end result and we hope this is a way of
bringing Eventing to a wider audience. Waitrose are once
again providing the food for all our volunteers, thank you
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Carlton Horse Trials 31st July & 1st August
Sponsored by Scotts of Thrapston – Entries now OPEN
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**NEW** for 2010 BE Novice - Entries now open and include Piggy French, silver medal winner at the European Championships in Fontainebleau 2009
2010 sees the addition of a new BE Novice course, which is sponsored by Matthew Nicholas Estate Agents. The Novice track flows over the undulating landscape making the most of the natural features and using part of the extended course which has been in waiting for 15years! A stunning addition to the horse trials.
Also new for 2010 are the Burghley Dubarry Young Event Horse Classes on Friday 30th July for 4 & 5 year olds.
For a schedule and entry form see the Horse Trials page
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BE80(T), BE90 and BE100 - Entries OPEN
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The cross country courses run over beautiful, old pasture, much of which is
maintained solely for this BE Horse Trial. The BE80 & BE90 courses have been
altered slightly to give a smoother and more educational ride.
The show jumping and dressage areas have been enlarged for this year, as well
as the parking areas. This will enable us to keep the arenas close to the
house whilst making the site more open and we do hope that you find this
improves the competition. If the dry weather continues an equivator will
be used to ensure good going.
For a schedule and entry form see the Horse Trials page |
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Why not try Affiliated Eventing BE80(T)?
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The BE80(T) class at Carlton Horse Trials is open to all riders. You don’t have to be a member of British Eventing to enter but you can request a “training ticket” from BE at a small cost (£10). The Cross Country course is at a height of approx 80cm. Victoria Thirlby, BE Accredited Trainer and Nick Turner, BE accredited trainer, member of the Coaching Development Team and trainer for the Brazilian Olympic Equestrian Team will be here to help competitors on the day, at no additional cost. This class will also have it’s own course walk on the morning of the 1st August, followed by the completion in the afternoon. The dressage test can be downloaded from the website. It’s all very straight forward so why not give it a go and make Carlton your first British Eventing One Day Event? If you have any questions, do ring me, Sara 01234 720320
Janet Hammond & Henry Beasley, the Scotts Development Squad will be competing for the first time, do come and watch them, join them or track their progress via the blog.
For more info...click through to horse trials page
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Friday 30th July Course Walks with Nick Turner
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Nick Turner will hold a course walk on Friday 30th July. Looking at approaches,
lines, distances, Nick will take competitors through the BE90, BE100 and BE Novice
cross country courses. The cost is £10 and proceeds will be donated to the RDA.
Click here to book the course walk online
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Janet’s first clinic and confidence is growing...
read full blog here!
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Henry’s First Impression of Carlton Cross Country...
read full blog here!
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Carlton Cross Country 30th May 2010 |
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Thank you from all of us at Carlton for a fabulous and full day of competition.
Congratulations must go to all the winners – sisters Rosie and Sophie
Metcalf won Class 1 pairs, Elissa McNamara competing for the first time
at Carlton came 1st in Class 2A, Andrew Mijalski on Summer Crystals won
Class 2 B, Sophie and Rosie took 1st & 2nd in Class 3, Zoe Mansell
riding Spice and Jo Brown on Irish Storm came 1st in
Classes 4A & 4B and the Open Class 5 was won by 13 year
old Emily Lloyd on Billy whose perfect clear round was completed at the optimum time.
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Carlton is now on Twitter
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Carlton is now on Twitter, follow our tweets here
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Henry's Diary....
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This week has gone really well, It started with work at Paul Tapners yard where I learnt a lot about teaching youngsters to jump.
The first very exciting clinic was on Saturday at Carlton with Nick Turner. My first impressions of Carlton Cross Country were very good, Sara Tusting came over and introduced her family and explained the course and what it will be like at the British Event. Sara couldn’t have been more delightful to meet she made us feel completely at home and the day went on to be a great one. Sara had clearly gone to a lot of trouble to get us more information on British Eventing so thank you for that.
Nick was very thorough with his teaching, he started with simple exercises to build the horse and riders confidence in water and on gradients.
We started by all walking round the water complex to get the horses used to the splash, then we worked on steps up and down to get control of speed and rhythm. Nick was very clear about the approach to a fence, it had to be straight and steady. He also picked up on some aspects of my riding which haven’t been spotted before.
I also went to Weston Park British Event with Paul on Sunday where he did the advanced classes, it was very interesting, walking the course with him and learning about the structure of the event. I am now looking forward to the next clinic at Carlton but also will be looking for a place on the Riding club team for the Horse Trails at Broadway. |
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Janet's Diary....
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The first clinic at Carlton Cross Country with Nick Turner. I had never been to Carlton before, and was very impressed by the well-maintained ground with a good range of jumps.
Nick was brilliant, starting the session very low key with walking up and down steps, and in and out of the water, then gradually building up to ditches and bigger steps, and stringing together 7-8 fences.
His advice is always practical and relevant – “it doesn’t have to look pretty, it needs to be effective”.
I had a couple of heart stopping moments, not least when we had to jump up 3 steps (Tara bounced up those like an old pro) followed by two big steps down. I hadn’t appreciated the drop until I arrived there. I was having second thoughts, but nothing was stopping Tara, and she popped down beautifully. She was an absolute star the whole day.
I thought we were getting a bit of a breather when we had to jump a “straightforward” round top, until Nick told us that statistically more falls happened at round tops last season than any other type of jump. Apparently most riders under-estimate these as they look so inviting. It made me realise that actually no cross-country jump is “easy”.
The drops and downhill sections are always my least favourite, but we practised a lot of these, and my confidence was really starting to grow by the end. Training clinics are so useful to help iron out any concerns.
A big thank you to Sara Tusting who provided such a warm welcome, and lots of information to help get this eventing season started.
And the best bit of advice for the day - “sit up and wait for the jump to come to you”.
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