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BSPS Area 7 Ltd Homepage Last Updated .....05 Sep 2008 Recently Updated.... Provisional Notice Pre Hoys Warm-up / Allcomers practice Date to be confirmed 20th or 21st September Addington Manor EC Full worker course and a chance to jump under lights, with music, indoors and practice your show around the jumps - just like HOYS! Further details to follow here very soon Go to the Training for details of forthcoming Flat and Jumping training days 2009 Show Dates Sunday February 15th Valentine's Show (Winter Qualifiers) Addington Manor EC Saturday & Sunday May 2nd & 3rd Spring Festival (RI Qualifiers) Addington Manor EC ***************************************** 2008 AGM - Sunday 23rd November Once again, this will be held at the Hopcroft Holt Hotel and will be followed by lunch and presentation of the points awards Further details will be published shortly ***************************************** Summer Champs All BSPS Area 7 Members and their families are invited to attend a Pre-Show Champagne Reception in the gazebo adjacent to YD02XRR (Black/Grey Ascot) in the White Area Horsebox Park on Tuesday 19th August from 7.30pm. September News now posted, Go to the news page to catch up with all the latest Saturday & Sunday 3rd/4th May - Spring Festival Once again, being held at Addington, with all the usual RI qualifiers - and NPS too! List of postal entries available online now. Go to shows page for further details Judge change: Due to unforeseen circumstances the following will now be judging: Mrs M Allison (in place of Miss C Greenwood, (36-41 & 45-48) Mr A Illsley (in place of the Late Mr A Rollo) (42-44) Saturday 16th February 2008 - Valentine's Show All winter qualifiers at the fabulous Addington Manor Equestrian Centre. For results click here New Year Training Go to the "training" page for further details on the Mandy McGlynn clinic on Sunday Jan 6th at Quainton Stud Rosie Stewart It is with great shock and immense sadness that I report that one of our young members, Rosie Stewart (17), was tragically killed in a car accident on her way to school last Friday, November 2nd. Rosie rode some wonderful working hunter ponies to great success - most recently with Godsfield Fandango - a pony she bought on herself from a 4 year old to compete at the Royal International. She went on, with another horse, to be selected to represent Great Britain at the Junior European Three Day Event Championships in Switzerland earlier this year. She and her Mother, Marion, were very active members of Area 7, both as competitors and stewards and Rosie will be greatly missed by the many people who knew her Rosie's brother Ben has set up a tribute page on Facebook (follow the link http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5619079434) If you would like to put something in writing to her Mother and Father, Marion and James, and her brother Ben, their address is: Culworth Grounds Lodge Thorpe Mandeville Banbury Oxon OX17 2HW The "Ribbon for Rosie" campaign is being started at the BE Event Ball, to raise money for a fund to be distributed to Rosie's family for a campaign of their choice. We hope to be able to continue this at our AGM and Points Awards Lunch on November 18th If you would like to make a donation to the Ribbon For Rosie campaign, please click here and you will be sent further details Dates for your diary Sunday 18th November 2007 - AGM/Awards Lunch Once again, being held at Hopcroft Holt, Enstone. Please click here to download further details. Please click here to download details of the points awards OHTO/Spring Festival Addington We had a tremendous 2 day show - the weather held out, even if it was a little chilly on Saturday morning. The standard of ponies forward, was very high in the majority of the classes The course-builder did a fantastic job on Sunday and proved that jumping is still the most important requirement of a worker, without causing any injuries (as far as I am aware). Certainly those that won tickets should not be too surprised when they get to Hickstead A huge thank you from the organising team to all competitors - you were all very cheery, no complaining, just enjoying yourselves. It makes our lives so much easier on such a busy 2 days. We have booked Addington for the same weekend next year !! Visit the Shows page to download the results ************* Unfortunately, Addington EC are unable to offer us any dates until the end of April and so the Committee have taken the decision not to re-schedule the Winter Show that was postponed due to the snow and ice. We are sorry for the disappointment and will try to make next year's show bigger and better still... For details of the next training clinic, please click here for further details ************* Go to For Sale pages - 4 more good quality saddles recently advertised *********** Important changes to Spring 2 day Show. Please note that we have changed the programme as follows Saturday - plaited flat classes Sunday - All workers and all M&M classes ************ Training - We have organised a Working Hunter Pony Clinic for January 14th at Addington, using the eventer trial fences, with Joss Gray. For further details, click here Due to overwhelming demand, this is now full but we are running a waiting list and will try to organise another one soon. See the Training page for further details The results of the 2006 Points Awards are available - please click here October Half Term Training A flat session has been organised for October 24th. Please click here for further details ***** AGM & Points Awards - Sunday November 26th 2006 Will be held this year at the Hopcroft's Holt Hotel, Oxford Road, Steeple Aston. Coffee will be served at 10.45 and the meeting will start promptly at 11.00am. This will be followed by lunch and the Awards will be presented after we have heard some interesting tales from our Guest Speaker. For further information, please click here Don't forget to send your points forms in as soon as possible. ****** Fritwell Show April 30th 2006 We are so grateful to our generous sponsors, who make it possible to run this show every year. A very big "thank-you" to all those who volunteered to help to make the day a good one - especially the stewards and Marguerite and her team in the office. Not forgetting our landlords, Mr and Mrs Loggin, the judges and not least our course-builder - who set tongues and nerves wagging with his ingenious courses. A list of results can be downloaded from the shows page **** Recently Updated.... For details of another Young Judges training session on 26th June please go to the Training page For further information on the Young Judges and Teams, please go to the relevant pages ***** Valentines Show 06 Results are now available on the Shows page **** March 2006 Training Following on from the very successful training day with Jane Beswick recently, we have organised a further day at Quainton Stud, Nr Aylesbury, this time with Rachael Turner. Please see the Training page for further details ***** Top Spec Supreme M&M Working Hunter Pony Champs - RIHS Qualifiers to be held at Fritwell on 30th April 2006 - click here for further details. **** Winter Show schedule available online now. Click here for further details **** AGM & Points Awards 2005 Once again, the AGM was followed by a good lunch and the awards were presented. See Points page for all the winners along with photos Training Dates - October Half Term Please go to training page for further details . 2 new partnerships that attended the training sessions went on to win their classes and take their respective championships at BSPS Area 17 show a couple of days later ****************************************************			Area 7 covers Bucks, Oxon and South Northants. When joining a new member will automatically be placed in the area closest to their postcode - unless they specify a particular area Area 7 Committee and Members are grateful to our most generous sponsors of our Shows, including: Beaverfast Dennis's Saddlers FMBS & Magnet Medics (Activo-Med) The Gee Family M&J Equestrian Notley Tythe Barn Snaffles Equine Nutrition Oliver Gregory Old Manor Farm Further packages are still available