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NEWS AND RESULTS

Fantastic results for Piers Fox-Andrews and his polo teams - a great deal of practice and hard work paid off with the final prize tally as follows :-

Gannon Main Prize, John Kent took Best Playing Pony, Matt Perry took the Retraining of Racehorse Prize. Our Gannon 2 goal Cowdray Park team came 2nd and Cowdray Hunt team won the Jaguar Rose Bowl subsidiary final. The Langford Plate was won by our Cowdray team who had to play against Cowdray Park in the subsidiary final. George Pearson won The Andrew Older Memorial Trophy for most promising Langford Player.of the year.

Congratulations to Piers for winning the Tony Gilks Branch Manager Award for the most organised team manager!

William Batchelor, George Pearson, Tommy Beresford and Jack Taylor were all selected by the Hurlingham Polo Association (HPA) for the U21 Cup.

Well done everybody!

RESULTS - Cowdray Hunt Summer Show - click here for results

WELL DONE to our minis - the team came a brilliant 2nd at the Petersfield ODE at Coombelands on the 20th June, with Beverly Voller coming a fantastic 2nd in her class after a stunning dressage and almost double clear (just a teensy weensy time fault)! Jemima Taylor was thrilled with her round and she came a brilliant 4th again with even teensier time faults cross country, and Issy Jackson did really well especially after her scary time the previous week, coming a creditable 6th. Click here for full report and photos.

SUCCESS at Bisley ODE on Sunday 9th May. All our teams did really well at what is generally regarded as quite a testing event early in the season. Christi Radkiewicz stepped in at the last minute and came first in her arena, with a brilliant dressage and double clear (Class 2), Lucy Griffiths and Kitty Godman-Dorington both got very good dressage scores and double clears and came 3rd and 4th respectively (Class 1). Ellie Thorman (Class 2), first time out on Foxy, Imogen Krens (Class 2) and Kitty Addison (Class 1) all came a creditable 6th in their groups. Issy Lush and Katie Phillips both achieved 3rd place in their arenas - a very testing cross country course - so well done girls!

CONGRATULATIONS to Adele Jones riding Jack who won the Open Dengie Qualifier at the weekend and also to Maddy Sanders riding Merlin who came 2nd in both the Novice & the Open classes, also qualifying for the Area Final. They join Flora Elliot who has already qualified and who was out competing this weekend at the British Eventing Jumping & Style Finals, having been 3rd in the qualifying event at Merrist Wood the weekend before. Well done girls and good luck at the Dengie Area Dressage Finals on 21st March. Click here for full story.

WINNERS The newly formed intermediate team of Venetia, Ashley, Katie and Daisy had a very successful time at Sands Farm on 28th Feb - click here for full story and pictures.

Garth Hunt PC Horse Trials @ Smiths Lawn, Windsor - 27th June 2010.

Many CONGRATULATIONS to both the Forsyth girls for doing well at the weekend in very hot weather. Sophie was 3rd in the Intermediate class and Annie was 1st in the Open class! Both did good dressage tests and double clears so very well done!

Area Show Jumping - Saturday 7th August saw our intermediate team of Ashley riding Calm before the Storm, Venetia riding Blackberry Boo, Sophie riding Reko Prince Caspian and Georgie riding Silent Gun, compete at the area show jumping at Berkshire College. Due to ground conditions they jumped inside which suited our team very well and they showed how they have improved over the season to finish 2nd and qualify for the nationals in Derbyshire.

We took a novice team of Katie Phillips riding Barney, Kelly Jones riding Jack, Zoe Jackson riding Dapper and Ella Wakeland riding Ellie. They jumped very well and although they did not get in the final line up, Ella jumped her first clear with Ellie and Kelly jumped two confident clear rounds, and went through to the jump off for the individual placings.

Our Novice Team

Zoe Jackson (Dipper Dapper)

Kelly Jones (Just Jack)

Ella Wakeland (Ellie)

Katie Phillips (Barney)

BEST SHOOT AND 1ST PLACES FOR COWDRAY A mini team of Edwina, Leah, Harvey competed at the Royal Artillery tetrathlon in the Wallops.

Harvey was competing at his first Tetrathlon , although he had competed at many triathlons in the past. Harvey rode his mums horse Flair, for the cross country stage. They jumped a well earnt clear round. Edwina arrived without a horse as poor Chips was lame so Flair came to the rescue and went around the cross country course for a second time. Leah also rode well with a clear on her pony Monty.

The team started well with Harvey gaining best shoot for the mini section overall. The weather had deteriated by the time they had to swim which made it very cold. All the team swam well but with only the run to complete the team were looking out of the placing's,

By the time the final scores came in we found Leah came 6th individually and Harvey came 5th individually with an award for his Best Shoot. A good day for Cowdray.

Ashley was the only Novice competing for Cowdray. He had a good shoot, swim and run and looked forward to riding Storm around the cross country course, which offered some challenging tight turns into some tricky fences.

Storm rose to the challenge and jumped well, helping Ashley win his first individual tetrathlon.He was put into a mixed team who also won the best team.

Our Intermediate Team

Sophie Forsyth (Reko Prince Caspian)

Venetia Manuel (Blackberry Boo)

Ashley Baker (Calm before the storm)

Georgie Brash (Silent Gun)

A very good day was had by all - Cowdray Hunt Mini minimus ODE - 15th August 2010 - click here for results!