RIDDELLS CREEK PONY CLUB March 2013 | NEWSLETTER

Birthday Greetings

January Karlie Barton 9th, Jasmine Venezia 12th, Brenton Brewer 18th, William Poker 20th, Olivia Kane 20th, Maddison Ford 29th, Hayley Neagle 29th.

Apologies to Ashley Christie. Ashley’s birthday was on the28th January and it was not included in the previous newsletter.I hope that you celebrated on that day Ashley.

ATTENDANCE BOOK HAVE YOU SIGNED IN ?

This book can be found on the counter of the Office at the beginning of each rally. You must put your card in the box as soon as you arrive. This is the record which we use to see who has won an Attendance Medal at the end of the year.PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE SIGNED IN FOR EACH RALLY.

New Members Welcome to Nysa Males, sister to Tana who is Purple group.

With the name of Nysa, does that mean that Dad is a Dr. Who fan.???

Rosters If you find you are unable to do your rostered duty, please arrange a swap with another member, prior to the day.

THIS IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

MARCH Equipment Brand, Brewer, O’Riley, Thornton

Canteen Barter, Baylis, Edwards, Waldhauser.

Cleaning French, Kane.

APRIL Equipment Hartney, Gillespie, Young. Canteen. Vinten, Marciniak, Martin,

Cleaning. Harding, Mclean- Ingleton.

Certificates 2013 D and D* tests theory will be taken at the March rally and testing at the April rally.

Riders must be 7 Years of age to do their “D” certificate and 9 years of age to do their D*

By now our candidates should have downloaded a copy of the syllabus for each of these certificates from the PCAV website, and been practicing the activities and skills at home. Bring this with you to the rally. There will be special sessions for these children at this rally. Candidates “D” Maddison Ford, Tana Males, Bridget Mouat, Jessica Martin, Sasha Tivey, Leyla Ozlap, Madeline Coates, Phoebe Baylis, Jana Smrdelj, Ella Tyshing.

“D*”Lauren Cocks, Clare Lovel, Sophie Baylis, Lizzy Brand, Abbey Martin, Freyja Barter, Annaliese Scott. If your name has been missed from these lists, please con-tact Kevin.

Anna Baylis and Chloe Ritchie are working towards their “C” certificates.

EASTER HORSE TRIALS – ONLY EIGHT WEEKS AWAY.

Sunday March 31st and Monday 1st April A Committee is needed to run this event.

More information at lunch time today!!!!

X.C. Course closed three weeks prior to the event (10th March.) P.C.A.V ruling.

Annual General Meeting

It is only a few weeks until our Annual General Meeting on Monday April 29th . Nominations close on the15th April. Collect a nomination form today. At this meeting a new committee will be elected. Present members are eligible for re-election.

We already know that there will be vacancies for District Commissioner, Zone Delegate and Treasurer. The strength of the club is in the willingness of members to take on key roles.

Thank you to Tom and Wendy Christensen for donat-ing logs and mulch and having them delivered to Pony Club.

These will be used to build and prepare our X.C. course.

ATTENDANCE TRACKER—Thank you to those mem-bers who always register on this system. The number of members who use the system is gradually rising. This makes it easier for the D.C. to plan for sufficient instruc-tors for each rally. Wouldn’t it be awful to arrive at the rally and find that you did not have an instructor for your group?

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Club Area Cleanliness

Please remember to clean up after your horse at the end of the day, and during the day.

Line up is often a very exciting time for some horses, so they like to leave a deposit behind before they begin the day’s activities. There are scoops and wheelbarrows around to make this task easier. If you use a yard, it is your responsibility to leave it clean.

Tree Watering

The Cypress trees that were planted in 2010 along Sutherlands Rd. are struggling through this lat-ter part of the summer. One per-son and two buckets can water them in one hour. Just imagine how easy the job would be with more people and more buckets (bring the fam-ily).

The trees behind the Clubrooms would also be pleased to receive a drink.

Watering List Please write your name on this list today, if you have been down to the Club to water the trees. Chocolate Drive.

Our Junior Committee is holding a Fund Raising event. Chocolates will be given to families at this Rally to sell to friends and family. Money to be

returned at the April rally.

OUT AND ABOUT Victorian Senior Eventing Squad 2013 Congratula-tions to Lucy Gunn for being chosen as part of this squad, with her horses Raymond K, and Chocolate Royale.

Geelong Horse Trials This event was on the same day as Glenlyon. Lucy Gunn chose to ride here for a qualifi-cation for the State Champs (Eventing) in May. Lucy and Raymond K were the winners of the Gr.1 section.

EASTER HORSE TRIALS – ONLY FOUR WEEKS AWAY.

Sunday March 31st and Monday 1st April Event Coordinator--- Judy Climas

Dressage Coord. Sue French and Lu Marciniak

S.J. Clare Poker, Wendy Abey

X.C. David Stammers and Bryan Wilson

Canteen-- Rhonda Franks and Wendy Lovel

Judges Lunches ????

Sat Night Dinner ????

Program Bianca Fiorentino.

Printing and Scoring John Mahoney

Parking- Brad Cocks, Ben Coates

Entry Sec---Leanne Pearce.

Office—Tina Cowley, Judy Climas, Sharon Green

Hygiene---Heather Fiorentino.

Clean up—Pack up (at the end of the event or next day)

Coordinators will be approaching parents at this rally for volunteers to assist in the various areas.

Mowing and whipper-snipping around the X.C. jumps and Dressage arena (Small) and painting / oiling jumps is a high priority.

Ring Bryan Wilson ( 0416 146 302 ) or David Stammers ( 0423 354 017 ) when you are available.

The X.C. phase of this event requires many hours of labour. Please volunteer! ! !

Pencillers are required for the Dressage phase of the Easter Horse Trials.

A training session will be held after lunch to help par-ents new to this activity.

Lu Marciniak will guide parents through the session.

Horse Trials Meetings. At 8.00 pm.

Wed, 6th Mar.

Mon. 18th Mar

Mon. 25th Mar.

New members very welcome

Next Committee of Management Meeting

Wednesday (not Monday) 3rd April.

Training and Grading Day Sat 9th March at 10.00 am

Wendy and Kevin are available to give our riders a last chance to school their horses for the Easter Horse Tri-als before Course closure on the 10th March.

Grading will also be available.

Please put your names on the list so that a timetable can be drawn up.

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OUT AND ABOUT—continued...

State Championships - Dressage and Show Jump-ing The best combinations in the state took part in this event. To be eligible they all competed at their Zone level events and were successful, and gained a place in these State Championships. Five of our riders took part. In Gr1 Dressage we had Emily Hartney, Chloe Ritchie and Sarah French and at Gr.2 level we had Candice Waldhauser and Isabelle Luxmoore. Our riders certainly collected some ribbons at this prestig-ious event on the PCAV calendar. Sarah French was the Gr.1 Champion (an Individual event only). Isabelle Lux-moore was the Gr. 2 Champion, just slightly ahead of Candice Waldhauser, and our two girls were joined by Nicola Fitzgerald , a previous member of our Club, and now with Bullengarook to form the Zone Gr.2 team. They were the winning Gr. 2 team. In Showjumping, Brenton Brewer repre-sented C.Z. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR RIDERS. Glenlyon Horse Trials Eight of our riders entered this event. In Gr.1 we had Sarah French and Victory, in Gr.2 (Open) Bessie Dimery and Kapeta Kip, in Gr.3 Melanie Pearce and Roger, Trinity McLean- Ingleton on Zakhan, Alice Poker on Northern Flirtatious and William Poker on Hannah, NO Gr.4 riders and in Gr.5 Laura Frost on Timmy and Clare Lovel and Midnight having their very first start in a Horse Trials event. Sarah French, in her last few months of Pony Club, certainly had a wonderful weekend. On her second horse, Victory, she won the Gr 1, and gained a qualification for the State Horse Trials in May. Bessie Dimery had a try in the Gr. 2 Open section, and was pleased with the X.C phase.

Our four riders in the Gr.3 section did very well. William Poker and Hannah were third , and Trinity McLean Ingleton on her evergreen pony Zakhan were fourth. Melanie Pearce had a memory lapse on X.C. but showed that Gr. 2 is not too far away. Alice Poker on her young mare showed that progress is certainly being made.

Laura Frost and Timmy in Gr. 5 are looking more like Gr. 4 riders. She was placed 5th. Clare Lovel made an excellent start to her Eventing career on Midnight. Mother found the day more trying than horse and rider.

Central Zone Gymkhana—Lowden Family Shield What a great day for RCPC. With twenty-seven riders entered from across the groups on beautifully turned out horses (the shiny coats were almost dazzling), uniforms almost to perfection and the enthusiasm to compete in all sections, our Club was able to produce the winning score. Riddells Creek was first (709 pts), Macedon second(662pts) and Woodend third (426pts). I am sure that the prize ribbons hanging in the homes of those riders who competed are much admired by the family and visitors when they come to your house. Thank you Kate for organizing the entries, and for reminding riders about uniforms etc. Our riders had so much suc-cess that it is not possible to list them all here. Just click on to the Central Zone web site to see photos and all the results.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL RIDERS IN THE RCPC TEAM. Wendy Abey took a games clinic the week before this event, to make sure that our riders understood the games and the rules. Thank you Wendy.

If parents are able to print Lowden Shield photos and donate them to the Club, we will make a collage of them, similar to the Games feature on display in the Clubrooms.

Riddells Creek Pony Club Inc. Newsletter March 2013 A0003079R http://www.rcpc.ponyclubvic.org.au

District Commissioner: Kevin Watson Ass. Alison Dimery , President: John Mahoney 0438 796 375, Secretary: Kate Luxmoore Treasurer: Sandra

Matthews, Vice Presidents : David Stammers and Judy Climas ,Committee Melanie Bugeja, Tina Cowley, Katrina Cayzer, Alison Dimery, Rhonda Franks, Sue

Frost, Leanne Pearce, Joan Stammers, Card Secretary: Aly Barton rcppcardsec@hotmail.com, Facilities Maintenance: David Stammers, Clothing, Badges,

Books: Tina Cowley 54 287 372. Gear Checking Coordinator Nereda Brand, Canteen Coordinator Joan Stammers Canteen Purchasing Rhonda Franks, Certificates

Joan Stammers & Jane Gerber, Junior Com. Angus, Isabelle & Maddy.

Newsletter Editor- Kevin Watson – kgwatson@melbpc.org.au

PONY CLUB CLUBROOMS PHONE NUMBER 5428 6816 EXTREME WEATHER 54 285 445 after 8.15am Rally Day. NEXT COMMITTEE MEET-

ING; Wednesday 3rd April at 8pm at the PONY CLUB ROOMS. NEXT JUNIOR COMMITTEE MEETING April Rally.

COMING EVENTS

March

9th-10th Wyena P.C. Horse Trials

17th Bacchus Marsh P.C. Horse Trials.

17th Gisborne P.C. Horse Trials

24th Mansfield P.C. H.T..

24th Macedon Supercrosse

31st R.C.P.C Easter Horse Trials.

April

7th Seymour Pony Club Show

8th- 10th Sue Leslie Clinic Kal Kallo

14th Zone Games and Flat teams.

21st Bealiba P.C. H.T.

Zone Games 14th April.

Would you like to be part of one of these teams?

There has been only limited interest in the Flat teams, but more in the Games.

If you are interested place your name on the sheet on the back of the board.

WORK AVAILABLE SMALL THOROUGHBRED RACING STABLE REQUIRES STAFF FOR GENERAL STABLE

DUTIES. WE ARE A SMALL BREEDING/RACING STABLE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE EITHER

FULL OR PART TIME. HOURS ARE FLEXIBLE WITH SOME WEEKEND WORK REQUIRED.

SOME EXPERIENCE PREFERED BUT TRAINING CAN BE PROVIDED FOR MOTIVATED APPLICANTS.

AWARD WAGES APPROPRIATE TO AGE AND EXPERIENCE. CONTACT LIZ IRWIN challisracing@bigpond.com

OR 0409951058