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SYDNEY FREE SADDLERY

NEWSLETTER JUNE 2014

Published by SYDNEY FREE SADDLERY FREE

WELCOME TO YOUR JUNE NEWSLETTER

Are we in summer yet? We can’t quite tell!! Although we’ve had some lovely hot days unfortunately we are still having

torrential downpours and it seems that every time the medium weight rugs are put away in favour of the lightweight ones

they need bringing back out again! However, the sun does seem to be gaining more heat and when you don’t need to hide

in the tackroom / stable it’s actually getting quite warm. The only downside to this is that with the heat have come the

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newsletter. We have new junior tabard body protectors at a great price as well as a new

range of long leather riding boots from Tredstep that look lovely and are a great quality

boot at a brilliant price. We have also started doing cross country colours! We will have

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SITUATIONS VACANT AT SYDNEY FREE

We are looking for new people to join us here at Sydney Free. At the moment we have space for

one or two people on a part time basis. One position will have to include Mondays. There is a

chance that one part time could lead to a full time job in the future. Other than that we are quite

flexible so if you are interested please give us an idea of what days you can/can’t do when you

send your CV. Please note that if you are at school and would be interested in work at weekends or

after school we will also consider you for one of the positions. No shop experience is necessary but

you must have good general equestrian knowledge (it would be advantageous for you to have

owned a horse), must be happy to deal with customers. Position to start at the beginning of July.

Feel free to email your CV to [email protected] or send by post.

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VET CHECK Do I really need to worm my horse? Here’s the dilemma. On the one hand intestinal para-sites continue to cause health problems in horses - in-cluding colic, weight loss and occasional death. But, on the other hand, resistance to front-line wormers is in-creasing and no new products are being developed to counter this disease threat. Most horse owners continue to control parasites through a combination of routine worming and pasture management practices like ‘poo picking’. Such blanket worming means that many horses are treated unneces-sarily, with surveys showing that over 80% of horses are wormed when they have no significant parasite burden. As well as being a waste of money, this has potentially adverse environmental effects and increases likelihood of parasites becoming resistant to wormers. Resistance to two anthelmintics – namely fenbendazole and pyrantel - is already well established in the UK. Overuse of other wormers will only encourage develop-ment of resistance. It is a concern that we are currently over-reliant on a single product, moxidectin (Equest), with a recent study showing that this is regularly used by 80% of horse owners. No new horse wormers have been developed since Equest was launched 16 years ago and, should re-sistance develop, we will seriously struggle to control equine parasites. Pressure is therefore on everyone, including vets, animal health suppliers and owners, to only worm those horses that require treatment. This is referred to as targeted worming. Microscopic view of a worm egg in equine faeces Using faecal or worm egg counts and only treating infect-ed horses reduces anthelmintic use by around 75%, with cost savings and environmen-tal benefits. The real prize, however, is preserving effica-cy of current wormers. Horse owners are often puzzled by the concept of targeted parasite control having be-come accustomed to worming at set intervals through-out the year. There is also a perception that using worm egg counts, at £8-10 each, increases costs because some horses will also require treatment. But targeted worming need not be complicated or more expensive. You can start now by not simply giving the spring wormer on your plan - instead check whether your horse really does need worming by doing a worm egg count. Only horses with more than 200 eggs per gram of faeces (epg) are treated. Worm egg counts are then repeated every 2-3 months during the summer depending upon levels of infestation.

Initial costs may be higher because some horses will be tested and treated but, with perseverance and good pasture management, these instances will decline. It might also be possible to reduce the frequency of worm egg count tests in subsequent summers to just once or twice. Owners sometimes question why horses with less than 200 epg are not treated. This is the concept of re-fugia whereby it helps to avoid resistance by leaving a small population of parasites in the gut that are not ex-posed to wormers. Any new entrants to a yard should either have a worm egg count or be wormed before they go out to grass. This is because some individuals can shed substantial numbers of worm eggs and disrupt a carefully managed programme. In fact recent evi-dence indicates that 80% of pasture contamination comes from just 15% of horses grazing. If you do need to worm new entrants or horses with worm egg counts >200, then it is essentially a choice between products containing pyrantel, ivermectin or moxidectin. Fen-bendazole is not ideal because of resistance. There is also an argument that by not using moxidectin in the summer we will help preserve its action against small redworm larvae in the winter. In late December or early January all horses should be treated for any encysted small redworms (cyathostomins), bots and tapeworms with a single dose of moxidectin combined with praziquantel, or 5 day course of fenbendazole with a suitable tapeworm prod-uct (see below).

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PRELIM TO GRAND PRIX Test Time! – Prelim 14

The Prelim 14 is a popular test at competitions. It has simple easy shapes but tests your accuracy and transitions.

Movement What to do

1 A Enter at working trot and proceed down the centre line without halting C turn left

Look straight at A and smile at the judge! Working trot is your normal everyday trot.

Make sure you stay straight on the centre line, look at A and keep go-ing there and make a nice smooth curved turn at C

2 HE Working trot E Circle left 20m diameter EK Working trot

Keep your rhythm in the trot and make your circle a proper circle shape – even size and shape all the way around, and make sure you finish it off properly at E.

3 Between K&A Transition to walk (one horse’s length) & proceed in working trot

Don’t leave it too late, try and position it in the middle between K&A. Sit and squeeze your upper legs together into walk and put your weight into your stirrups – try not to pull to walk. Establish the walk for approx 3-4 paces then legs on straight to trot

4 FXH Change the rein in work-ing trot

A nice smooth turn onto the diagonal and head straight for H. Look at it and don’t wander on the line. Keep an even rhythm

5 Between H&C Transition to walk (one horse’s length) & proceed in working trot

Again, prepare your horse. Try not to pull into the downward transi-tion so that your horse can move forward into walk and forward again into trot

6 B Circle right 20meters diam-eter and after E give and re-take the reins

Keep to a smooth, even circle. When you give and retake your reins you run your hands along the top of the horse’s neck, but not touching the horse in a steady rhythm (think of counting 2 forwards and 2 back) and then straight onto the long side of the arena

7 Between F&A Working canter right KEH Working canter right

Use the corner for this transition to help you, make sure your outside lower leg is slightly further back and use the inside leg for your transi-tion to canter. Make sure the hind quarters don’t drift in on the long side.

8 C Circle right 20m diameter MBF Working canter

Make your circle an accurate, even shape and then keep your horse straight on the long side.

9 Between F&A Working trot Between K&A Medium walk

Prepare your horse for the downward transitions and try not to pull into the downward transitions, shoulders back, slightly press in your stirrups and squeeze gently with your upper leg.

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KXM Change rein in free walk on a long rein

This is supposed to be a marching, stretching walk in a straight line across the diagonal. Set your sights at M and don’t let your horse wan-der.

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Between M&C Working trot HEK Working trot

Again prepare for the upward transition, a gentle squeeze with your lower leg to the trot. Straight on the long side with an even rhythm.

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Between K&A Working can-ter left A Circle left 20m diameter

Again, use the corner for this transition to help you, make sure your outside lower leg is slightly further back and use the inside leg for your transition to canter.

1 AFBM Working canter Make sure the hind quarters don’t drift in on the long side.

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Between M&C Working trot HXF Change the rein in work-ing trot

As before with the downward transition and into a balanced trot be-fore getting a good turn onto a straight diagonal line. Look where you are going and don’t let your horse waver.

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A Turn down the centre line Between X&G Halt. Immobili-ty. Salute.

A smooth turn onto the centre line and then head straight for the judge at C. Both legs evenly on your horse to keep the halt straight. Smile at the judge again!!



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This is the test and for each movement I have tried to give you some hints of what to do and how to ride those movements. Now, obviously it goes without saying that you need to ride as accurately as you can to each marker but these are some hints on how to get through the test. Remember - if you make a mistake when you’re riding your test don’t panic, just move on. Hopefully you got through it in one piece! If mistakes happened then don’t worry, you’ll be ready not to make those mistakes next time. Try and recognise what you did well and what you didn’t and practise those.

MARY SHARMAN—www.marysharman.co.uk—

07970426253 ‘Mary competes at Grand Prix and

has been a member of the World Class Equine Path-

way and Development Programmes. She has been

placed in the top ten at British Dressage National

Championships at every level from Prelim to Inter I

with four of those placings in the top three and rep-

resented Britain at International CDIs with consist-

ently high rankings. ‘

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fully made to measure. All you would need to do is

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provide us with certain measurements.

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Nosebands start at £39.95 for a

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Main bodies work to maintain and

Improve farriery

By ANDREW POYNTON FWCF

WHAT provision is made for maintaining and improving farriery throughout the UK?

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the ex-pected norm for all professions today; that is regular refresher courses and information to keep the practi-tioner up to date with the latest developments in their field.

In farriery the three main bodies associated with the craft, the Worshipful Company of Farriers (WCF), the Farriers Registration Council (FRC) and the National Association of Farriers Blacksmiths and Agricultural Engineers (NAFBEA) jointly work together to promote and monitor CPD for farriers.

Farriers are encouraged to participate in a minimum of two and a half days per year and since recording CPD began in 2007, there has been healthy uptake, with increasing numbers of farriers involved.

The courses, clinics and seminars are many and di-verse, including joint veterinary and farriery seminars, practical trimming and shoeing clinics; other courses may be dedicated to new advanced specialist tech-niques. Farriers studying for the voluntary advanced exams also accrue CPD credits.

The farriery training scheme in the UK is held in high regard the world over, attracting voluntary candidates to attempt the WCF examinations, from the national standard Diploma of the Worshipful Company of Farri-ers (DipWCF), through the Associateship of the Wor-shipful Company of Farriers (AWCF) to the Fellowship of the Worshipful Company of Farriers (FWCF).

So what benefit is all this to the horse and horse own-er?

There are standards and education for all farriers; the DipWCF pass level standard should maintain the major-ity of horses’ feet, keeping them sound, whether the horse is having feet trimmed or being shod; the four year plus training equips the farrier well.

Once qualified the farrier should continue to learn and gain further skill and experience performing on a high-er level.

When the owner, vet and farrier are faced with unre-solved lameness, not necessarily through any fault of the farrier, they can refer the case to a farrier holding the AWCF, the qualification for remedial farriery.

This is not to be confused with ATF (Approved Training Farrier) which some farriers place after their names. As stated the farrier has been approved to train an ap-prentice and will have had to attend a course then demonstrate their ability to teach an apprentice, a commendable task indeed, but not the higher qualifica-tion.

The FWCF is the highest qualifica-tion in farriery. Fel-lows will be in-volved in scientific research and may be farriery examin-ers.

The parties in-volved with the horse may wish to work together on the case or inde-



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pendently until all avenues have been explored and hopefully a resolution found.

The referral farrier’s role is to aid where possible and then ideally return the case to the farrier or one who will main-tain the work.

There is a system in place for the best welfare of the horse; it is important for horse owners, farriers and veterinary surgeons to be aware of this and to take full advantage of the skills and expertise of the professionals currently available.

The industry is well regulated and where sub standard work comes to light, guidance and further training can be given. For farriers to deliver quality work they need suitable working conditions and amenable horses. The responsibility of the owner to have the horse routinely attended at appropriate intervals makes all the differ-ence.

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The Showjumper

Key points

You must stay on the line set by the Course Build-

er to ensure that the striding is correct. If you ride

the curve too small, the striding will be short-

ened, if the curve is ridden too wide, the striding

will be lengthened.

Ride a well-balanced canter

Suppleness through the horses body, throughout

the curve

Keep the outline and control

Exercise 1

Start the exercise by just riding the cross pole with the

two ground poles (fence B) placed before and after the

fence. These poles will encourage the horse to slow the

canter and so making the correct shape over the fence.

Jump in both directions.

Exercise 2

Ride fence A, a small upright, riding the curve to the

cross pole and ground poles (fence B). The ground poles

remain to keep the good quality shape of the jump. Ride

the exercise in both directions.

Exercise 3

Once you are happy riding exercise 2 and the five strides

of canter between the fences is regular and well bal-

anced, add the third fence (C).

Note

If you struggle to achieve the five strides between the

fences and the ground poles, the distance can be short-

ened so that the canter remains in balance. Once per-

fected on the shorter stride, lengthen the distance.

By Jonathan Bowman

British Showjumping Accredited Coach

BHSAI: International Showjumper



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NEW SPONSORED RIDER JOINS THE SYDNEY FREE STABLE

A new rider to join the Sydney Free Team is Jenny Law-

ton. She is an ambitious event rider with two ponies ,

Brodie and Whispa, that she is competing with at PC and

unaffiliated 100 at the moment. Here is her blog of what

she has been up to:

Jenny Lawton

Recently Brodie and I did our first event of the season,

an unaffiliated 90 at Larkhill which we led from start to

finish with the only dressage score in the 20s. It was

against mainly adults on giant horses that dwarfed little

Brodie. The cross country was long with lots of galloping

opportunities and it was alarming when the scores start-

ed coming in and people were getting lots of time penal-

ties. I was thrilled when

my little 14hh pocket rock-

et got round with only 2.8

time penalties. No jump-

ing penalties meant we

finished on a score lower

than anyone else’s dres-

sage score.

Sadly, because I’ve been ill and off school for four weeks,

we’ve missed Offchurch, our favourite event, and will

miss a hunter trial at Swalcliffe in April. We’re aiming

now for 4th May at Swalcliffe and it’ll be our first 100cm

ODE. Then I’m entered in the Schools 100cm at Off-

church Two Day at the end of May.

Brodie is a real show off, his party piece is his medium

trot. He’s a real character, he thinks he’s 17hh yet he’s

hugely loveable and my trainer Pat Wakefield just wants

to steal him for herself!

We’ve just sold baby Whispa. We didn’t advertise her

but were persuaded to sell by the people who bought

my 12.2hh pony five years ago as they’d spent six

months looking for a 14.2hh to no avail. It was a fantas-

tic experience to bring on a five year old and it is so re-

warding for me to hear about her jumping 110m with

her new owners when we

got her fresh out of Ire-

land where all she’d done

was hunt. We went to

the PC National Novice

Championships for dres-

sage and finished a re-

spectable 16th (she was five at the time). The highlight of

my season with her last year was definitely the two day

at Longleat. Whispa did a decent dressage and rolled

one unfortunate pole show jumping on the first day. I

woke up very nervous as she had never steeple chased

and the fences were enormous, you could only see my

head and shoulders when I stood behind them! The

cross country was incredibly beefy and well built, a really

traditional course. We’d not made a cross country time

before but here on a 5 min 42 course we came home in 5

min 20!

I am so excited for this season, but more importantly for

the next few years. When Brodie and I have done sever-

al 100’s, hopefully with success, I am planning on run-

ning him at an unaffiliated Novice. If he performs well it

is possible that we will reconsider buying a horse for

next year and instead trial Brodie for the Pony Team,

which is a HUGELY exciting prospect for me . If this plan

doesn’t materialise then I will be getting a talented 6/7

y.o. horse that I can bring on with the help of trainer Pat,

to compete at BE Intermediate and trial for the Junior

and Young Rider teams.



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Sydney Free Sponsored Riders Laura Wall Meacham Reality (Dottie) and I are just starting off our new partnership which will hopefully bring much success for us both. We have had a busy month with many good days out in which we achieved some very good results. Our first dressage competi-tion started off rather well, or so I thought, until I heard the dreaded bell sound as I was doing my sec-ond element of the test and was called over and asked what test I was doing. After looking at the judg-es test sheet I was rather confused when I never rec-ognised any of the test at all. We quickly discovered that the prelim 17 had been updated to the 2014 ver-sion and i was doing the old 2002 test as the year was not stated on the competition entry form. One thing I did learn that day was to check that the dressage tests have not been updated. After all the confusion and the patience of the judge I finally did the correct test and gained a very credible 3rd place with 68%. The following weekend we went to West Wilts and competed in the showjumping to see what she would make of the scary fillers. I need not have worried as she took it all in her stride to give me a double clear and a re-spectable 4th place.

We took a trip to Rabson Manor to do some XC schooling for a bit of fun. Again she seemed to really enjoy herself especially jumping into the water and showing real ability over natural fences.

Finally we went to Hunters Equestrian on 13th April and produced a lovely dressage test in our first novice scoring 72.29% placing us 1st overall. I am very pleased with how this month has gone on a young 4 year old horse and hope that this will continue.

Abbie Newbury April has been a busy month for me. Firstly I had to get through my mock GCSE exams, I then headed up to Red-ditch to spend a week with the Eilbergs what a fantastic time I had. It's given me a real insight of what it's like to work in a top dressage yard, I was lucky enough to watch both Ferdi and Michael train and teach.

On returning home I had 4 days to prepare Archie for the BD Winter Championship, with the help of Sam Rah-matalla. Archie was amazing in the first round he gained 70% to win the class he really tried his heart out for me! Unfortunately I think we peaked a little too early and only managed 66% in the final! Nevertheless we fin-ished 6th which I was thrilled with.

I'm working really hard with Sam's help at the moment to try and improve Archie's way of going. We are head-ing off to the BD South West Festival this weekend so I'm hoping our medium scores will have improved.

If anyone has any spare tack or saddlecloths that they would

like to go to a good home a local lady is collecting a batch of

items to go to The Gambian Horse Trust. Just drop it into the

shop and we will make sure she gets it. The items can be old

but please only donate if its clean and in usable condition.



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Wessex Gold Riding Club at the BRC

Winter Dressage Championships 2014

Last Autumn the club qualified both their senior and jun-

ior teams for the BRC Winter Dressage Championships,

an achievement in itself. The finals were last weekend at

Hartpury with clubs from all over the country. The com-

petition was fierce with 30 teams in the senior class on

Saturday and 20 in the juniors on Sunday. The standard

was high with at least one National champion and

BYRDS riders in abundance but everyone rode the best

that they could and got over 60% which was very good

at this level.

On Saturday, the sen-

ior team consisting of

Wendy Lappington

on Toby(62.5%), Mel

Arnold on Joey

(63.0%) , Claire War-

man on Molly

(62.9%) and Terena

Gough on Jake

(66.3%)were about 20th, but it was very close in the

middle of the table and a placing either way would have

made a big difference. It was very hard for anyone to

warm-up as there were so many in the arena. No one

seemed to be obeying the basic rules and poor Wendy

actually had a crash just before she went in. Highlights

included show jumping sausages (you had to be there)

and Marie finding out she had a new talent as a Ring

Steward – ‘good luck...well done...smile ‘

The Sunday highlights were Zoe Thompson coming 8th in

her Prelim section, and Alice Austen-Europa coming 9th

in her Novice. Sophia Ramaer and Splash did a lovely

test to come a creditable 11th

in her section. Laura Austen-

Europa couldn’t ride her usual

horse Ike who’s injured. After 4

weeks intense training from

Marie, she rode Ginney, Ken

Howse’s lovely ex- racehorse

who’d only been out of train-

ing for a couple of months, and

they did an amazing job to get

62% (definitely one for the fu-

ture). The team came 12th, but

again, placings were

really tight and we

could easily have been

5th or 15th!

This is the 1st time

we’ve qualified for the

winter champs and we

came out with our heads held high. We may not have

been placed but everyone rode their socks off and did

the club proud. The weather was fantastic and everyone

thoroughly enjoyed themselves and there was a great

team spirit (and picnics). Thanks to Marie Kent for all

her training, and being there the whole weekend to help

people on the day, and to everyone (teams, reserves,

Mums, other

halves, supporters

and dogs!) for mak-

ing it a great week-

end. Watch out

BRC – we’ll be

back!

By Jo Howse



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HPA 01367 242828

Pony Club 024 76 698300

British Riding Club 024 76 840590

British Driving Society 01473 892001

Vets

Waterlane Equine Vets 01452 770268 07551 857930

Bourton Vale(H) 01451 820137

Willesley Equine Clinic (H) 01666 880501

Benson & Babb 01285 653151

George Group Horse 01666 826456

George Group Small Animals 01666 823165

Wessex Equine 01793 739220

The Sidings 01285 643146

Local Polo Clubs

Beaufort Polo Club 01666 880510

Cirencester Polo Club 01285 653225

Longdole Polo Club 01452 864544

Asthall Farm Polo Club 01367 860207

Local Hunts

VWH Hunt 01666 577399

Beaufort Hunt Hon. Secretary 01666 823292

Cotswold Hunt Hon. Secretary 01451 850319

Heythrop Hunt Secretary 01608 676478

DIARY OF EVENTS JUNE 2014

To 1st September Cirencester Hare Festival

10th June Training Day with Richard Waygood—VWH Riding Club

10th June Minchinhampton PC Rally at Rectory Farm

7th-15th June Brewery Burger Festival, Cheltenham

15th June Beaufort Pony Club Dressage Rally

18th June Unaffiliated Evening Dressage at Rectory Farm

22nd June Oaksey Fun Ride

22nd June Race For Life, Gloucester

28th June Stawberry Tea and Fun Dog Show, Tetbury

28th June Heythrop Cocklebarrow Country Fair

29th June Cotswold Family Fun Run, Cotswold Country Park & Beach

