Whaddon Chase Pony Club is organising a fun and friendly “virtual” treasure hunt to help raise funds for their Endurance teams’ training program.

Everyone is welcome to enter and there will be small prizes for the winners.

Click here to download an entry form.

Who are they for?

ANYONE  who cares about how fit their horse/pony is
•  Eventers
•  Show Jumpers
•  Dressage
•  Endurance
•  TREC
•  Riding Club/Pony Club Teams
“On the Hoof Distance Training” are passionate about fitness, they want everyone to enjoy training and have a greater understanding of what fitness is and how it can be achieved for every discipline.

What do we do?:

Using a measured distance we look at what the horses heart is actually doing..
•  Assess fitness
•  Work intervals – technically using heart rate monitors
•  “play around” with the heart rate monitors – to see “exactly” whats what!
Each session covers you and your horse specifically, you don’t have to be a particular level or even aiming at something in particular it can simply be about learning more about how you both “tick”. The aim is to have fun, to improve and understand a little (and sometimes a lot) more about what about what’s going on under you!

Who is running it?

Maggie Pattinson of On the Hoof Distance Training. Maggie’s passion is for fitness in the competition horse. She has a lifetime’s experience with horses and has been lucky enough to compete and work in many different countries in a variety of disciplines – mainly Eventing until she discovered Endurance 16/17+ years ago. Since then she has trained, competed and crewed at International level. She is currently chef d’equipe for the Home International English Team which is how the Parslers have got in contact with her. She runs this type of training regularly at different levels for her local EGB group, the international teams and for some of her local PC branches too.

Whilst this training has obviously been organised with Endurance in mind you don’t need to have an interest in Endurance Riding to attend. Maggie is keen to help everyone at all levels of riding to achieve the correct fitness levels to be able to get the best out of your horse.

What will it cost?

The cost per head will be £20-25 for 3/4 hours training in groups of 2-4 riders.  (As Maggie is travelling from some distance she has set a minimum charge for the day so until numbers are confirmed it is impossible to be definite on cost.) If you are interested in attending please contact Nikki using the contact form below asap to book your place. You will get a pre-training questionnaire sent back which you will need to complete so that Maggie can plan the session specifically for you!

Click here to download the schedule for the MK ride on 30th August.  There are classes from 4km to 37km and a team friendly competition too.  This is your very last chance to qualify for the 2009 PC Championships and we have a qualifier class at all 3 levels.

Please note that late entries cannot be accepted and failing to provide a suitably sized SAE may significantly delay your reciept of ride maps. The secretary is taking the entries off to the Lake District on holiday with her so late entries will quite literally not be seen.  We are also disinclined to tramp all over the place looking for shops to sell us envelopes and stamps because you can’t be bothered to provide them!  Sorry if that seems harsh but even ride secretaries have to holiday sometime.

BREAKING NEWS …..BREAKING NEWS …..BREAKING NEWS

Performance Equestrian, the specialist supplier of horse and rider equipment for Long Distance and Trec, has agreed to sponsor the PC Area 12 Open Team challenge at the College EGB ride on 12th October 2008.  They will be awarding prizes to the highest placed three teams.

Entries close on 28th of September for this competition so there is still time for branches to get involved.  The schedule and rules can be downloaded from the events page of this site.

Performance Equestrian has a huge range of equipment suitable for everyone from the happy hacker to the serious endurance competitor – check out thier online shop at http://www.performance-equestrian.com/index.html