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Dengie Pony Club Winter League Championships - Northern Irish take home top prizes again!
17th April 2008
The inaugural Dengie Pony Club Winter League Dressage Championship was held in conjunction with the 12th annual Dengie Pony Club Winter League Championships at Warwickshire College in Moreton Morrell over the weekend of 29th and 30th March. An initial entry of more than 4,000 Pony Club members competed in the preliminary rounds in the hopes of getting through to the area final and ultimately earning a place at the prestigious championships.
A total of 88 talented combinations contested Saturday's show jumping league final with 14 riders making it through to the final jump off. Tomas Dooley aged 13 and his pony Bugsey, members of the Iveagh Branch, earned a well deserved victory producing only one of six double clear rounds.
For the second year running the Dengie Pony Club Open Show jumping Championships has been open to members up to the age of 25. Iveagh Branch continued its winning streak with 19 year old Gareth McCombe on Corroghoe King putting in a top class performance to secure the title of Dengie Pony Club Open Show jumping Champion.
The first year of the Dengie Pony Club Winter League Dressage Championships generated a fantastic level of participation with 80 accomplished dressage riders battling it out for the hotly contested title. East Aberdeenshire Branch's Lauren Tait and Champagne Bubbles produced a sparkling test that saw the impressed judges awarding her with a final winning score of 78.89%.
Here at Dengie, we are proud to sponsor the Pony Club Winter League Championships. We see it as a way of helping to foster the next generation as the championships are designed to help Pony Club members improve their ability, enhance their competition experience and enable them to gain confidence in their chosen discipline.
In this regard, we recently received an e-mail from Beatle Payne who came 2nd in the dressage as a thank you to us and the Pony Club for our support and attaching a link to a YouTube video. We hope that Beatle will build on the success she had at the Winter League and look forward to hopefully seeing her next year along with all the other 4,000 hopefuls! Please click here to view Beatles video!
For a full list of results please visit the Pony Club Website or click here.
