NATIONAL NEWS Ken and Karen offer a wealth of experience between them. Ken has a been a scorer for Dressage Canterbury for ten years and considered a move into event management to be an exciting new challenge. Karen is enjoying a change from showing to producing and training her own dressage horses. Corey and Jane share a passion for keeping the sport of dressage alive from a grass roots level and also enjoy offering higher level classes to more experienced riders who often cannot get the local outings between Premier League events. Following discussions with Dressage NZ, NCDC has become an active branch of Dressage Canterbury. Judges from Dressage Canterbury and further afield are utilised and so the branch offers increased opportunities for judges to maintain their training and mentoring programmes. The Equestrian Entries platform framework is now being utilised to make it easy for competitors to enter online and keep track of their points and placings, a win for everyone. Many sponsors have been happy to put their hands up to help, supporting a wide range of classes with exceptional monetary sponsorship and prizes. “It is wonderful to have ongoing support from Canterbury businesses after such a tumultuous twelve months and competitions days like these could not happen without them”. Corey has a passion for
promoting dressage to the Junior Riders and has donated the Miln Trophy for Pony Clubs to contest by accumulating results from members who attend the club days and culminating with an annual Champion Pony Club named at the end of the Winter Series. The club will run two threeday series across the seasons with stunning Champion and Reserve sashes up for grabs in all class levels for combinations who have gained the highest points and complete at least two of the days in each series. Beautiful rosettes to sixth place and prize money is offered in all classes including the non-graded provide an added incentive. Record numbers participated in December and January events, including close to fifty U16yrs riders and significantly nearly 20% of those combinations were having a go under the ESNZ Casual Start system. An outstanding diversity of horse breeds filled up the classes, and with lots of positive feedback from the competitors, it really has been a whirlwind beginning. We hope to encourage the casual start riders to eventually join up with ESNZ dressage and keep attending local days in view of continuing their dressage as a sport.
Dressage for all breeds.
Dressage for all ages.
For more information on our exciting dressage competitions, results and photos look for North Canterbury Dressage on Facebook. Dressage for all disciplines.
With entries already flowing in for third and final day of the Autumn Series, considerations for bigger events and the ongoing support of a super number of sponsors, the future for the club and dressage in North Canterbury is looking bright.
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