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Thorseby Spring Carnival

Eventing this weekend:

Location – Thorseby Park –  Netherfield Lane, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG22 9EP

After the recent announcement that Lycetts Insurance brokers will be in partnership with the EHOA they would like to invite Owners attending Thorseby Spring Festival to join them in the Owners Marquee in the walled garden at the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby.

The perfect spot for watching the dressage taking place on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th March. Watch your horse compete whilst enjoying a glass of fizz.

Lycetts also have a Marquee located near the water complex. During the course of Friday afternoon and Saturday they will be offering hospitality to any owners, riders and their connections, and of course any existing Lycetts clients.

BEDE Events look forward to welcoming many of you to the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby this weekend. Our team have been working all hours recently to ensure that everything is ready and we have got the best ground we could offer given the incredibly wet spring. We just wanted to highlight a few bits of information to you all which will hopefully ensure your weekend goes smoothly.

Once again our Owners Pavilion will be open from (9am – 4pm) on Friday, Saturday & Sunday. This is suitated in the centre of the site, and only a short (downhill!) walk from the car park. We are doing all we can to improve our sustainability credentials and given we are a green field site we want to do all we can to reduce waste. On this note, we will not be providing single use mugs in the Owners Pavilion. Please could you bring your own reusable mug, or we will have branded BEDE mugs for sale at £5 each. Please come prepared!

All registered BE owners with horses running at Thoresby should have received a car pass by email – if you haven’t please email tickets@bedeltd.co.uk as soon as possible, so we can resend out if needed. These are a single use ticket, so when you arrive please ensure you come to the event office to collect your Owners pack, which will have 2 owners badges and a car pass for any remaining days you are joining us. All members of the EHOA and HTSG are welcome to use our owners facility, please just show your relevant badge to the catering team if asked.

We have had the most beautiful few days and the site is looking amazing. The forecast is looking good, but as we know we cannot predict the weather! We will have H&C with us over the three days and they will be providing a live stream of all the cross country and the majority of the Grantham Cup dressage and show jumping.

We do have an exciting new initative for Owners in conjunction with Hawkstone Brewery, which many of you will know from Clarkson’s Farm! There will be an official launch on Friday 29th March at 3.30pm in the Owners Pavilion. We do hope many of you can join us for this, and all the details will be released on our website after the launch.

Just a word of warnign to owners with horses in teh Grantham Cup – 

The GRANTHAM CUP CCI4* Section H will have the XC in reverse order for the top 25% after SJ. The start times will be produced as soon as possible after the jumping has finished.

Once again a huge thank you to you all for your support of Thoresby, and we wish you all the best of luck. Please if you have any questions, email Georgie – georgie@bedeltd.co.uk and she will do her best to help you

Safe travels and see you all soon

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Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market Horse Trials

Join us in commemorating a quarter-century of eventing competition at the Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market Horse Trials! In addition to the complimentary offering in the Owners Tent overlooking the Main Arena, we are delighted to mark the occasion with a 20% reduced offer to all Owners of a full ringside hospitality package!

Take advantage of this all-day access to the hospitality marquee, with a relaxed atmosphere, with prime viewing of the showjumping arena, forward parking, an event program, 2 course buffet style lunch, and further refreshments including tea and coffee, and wine and beer.

To book Simply use the code BMIHT24_20EHOA when booking your hospitality through www.musketeer.co.uk  

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Week 12 Tweseldown X and Munstead

Eventing this weekend takes place at the following locations:

Tweseldown – Tweseldown Racecourse, Bourley Road, Fleet, Church Crookham, Hampshire, GU52 8AD

Munstead – Heath Farm, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 1UN

Additional Information from Munstead:

  • Each car displaying a current BE membership card will be admitted including all occupants otherwise £10 per car or £5 per person (i.e. a car with four people costs £10 or a car with one person costs £5). Please display your competitor number in the front windscreen of all vehicles (including Cars containing owners/grooms)
  • Parking – No cars will be allowed in the lorry park due to limited space.
  • Prize Money Claim Formavailable here

Eventing abroad this weekend – a number of EHOA owned horses are competing overseas this weekend in The Netherlands at Kronenberg, should you wish to follow the action results for all the classes can be found on: https://www.rechenstelle.de/en/agenda/2024/kronenberg/ and you can follow some live action in the morning on: https://www.clipmyhorse.tv/en_GB/events/13136 with live cross country starting at 07:00 from the CCI4*L.

Final note – huge thanks to the team at Tweseldown lead by Rachel Faulkner for putting an event on in less than a week after the cancellation of Cirencester. If you are on site at any point, please do pop in and express your gratitude.

Good luck and enjoy,

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Eventing for this weekend

Oasby starts today!

Oasby – Foxdale, Oasby, Nr Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3NA

  • WhatThreeWords: tabloid.simmer.punk

Tweseldown – Tweseldown Racecourse, Bourley Road, Fleet, Church Crookham, Hampshire, GU52 8AD

Some specific Oasby event requests for the following few days please:

  • Prize Money – for all classes. The online Prize money claim form can be found HERE Only claims on this form are acceptable.  All forms need to be submitted by 31st March 2024.
  • Some good news – no charge to go and watch.
  • More details on  https://bede-events.co.uk/project/oasby-1/

No specific requests from Tweseldown- all their information can be found on: www.tweseldown.o.uk

As always start times, results and up to date information can be found on the British Eventing website (www.britisheventing.com ) or the Eventing Scores (www.eventingscores.co.uk ) website.

On a separate note, there is a sports committee meeting within the next 10 days that the EHOA will have a representative at. Should you have a sport matter that you would like to raise, please send it across. A member of the EHOA board will also have a regular meeting with the BE CEO so if you have a matter that is concerning you that you would like taking forward please email your question / query / comment to us. Contact email to use please for both the above is: theehoa@gmail.com.

Many thanks – good luck and enjoy if out and about eventing over the next few days.

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BEDE 2024 PLANS

The team at BEDE have kindly provided detailed information about their 2024 season events.  See their message below. Not only is top class eventing on offer, there are many entertainments arranged for your enjoyment and varied sponsorship opportunities to suit any company wishing to support the sport and benefit from exposure to the large footfall that BEDE events attract.  

If you have questions about the eventing, spectating or sponsorship aspects of the events below please contact Georgie Dickinson, 07557 096884, georgie@bedeltd.co.uk

On behalf of members, we take this opportunity to thank the BEDE team for the energy and enthusiasm expended on planning and running so many fixtures, and for taking owners’ needs on board. We look forward to supporting these fixtures and enjoying the facilities on offer to owners. (Especially to eating all the delightful refreshments on offer). 

Best regards, the EHOA Board

  • The Eventing Spring Carnival – 29th – 31st March 2024 (Easter Weekend)
    • 4* jumping – Saturday 30th
    • 3* jumping – Sunday 31st
    • 2* jumping – Friday 29th
  • Osberton 1 – 3rd – 5th May 2024 (Rockingham replacement)
    • We will be running:
      • DBYEH classes on Thursday 2nd May
      • 2* & 3*S classes
      • Pony 2*S
      • BE100 – Intermediate and AI class
    • Run on a different footprint to the autumn event
    • Exciting new developments within the course for both the Spring and Autumn events
  • Osberton 2 – 2nd – 6th Oct 2024
    • We will be running:
      • National Novice 3DE for anyone who hasn’t started an FEI event in 2024
      • CCI2*-L
      • CCI3*-L
      • Pony 2*S – run over a long format
      • CCI1*-Intro – with Amateur and Professional sections (to enable people to be able to compete on a level basis)
      • CCI2*-S – new addition for 2024, for one year only
    • Great evening entertainment
    • Owners Pavilion, with wifi, comfortable seating, complimentary T&C and delicious restaurant

New Sponsorship Opportunity available for 2024.

Over the past two years we have seen a substantial increase in our 4* entries, and we are aware this is a key fixture for these combinations who are likely headed to Badminton, Kentucky and other large fixtures later in the season. Last year, we added an additional 4* class at the last minute to accommodate these entries, and we are keen to continue this into 2024, to ensure riders get their ideal runs. To enable us to help us do this, we are looking for a sponsor for this additional class to cover the prize money. Below is an outline of a package for this sponsorship proposal. Details of the CCI4*-S Class Sponsorship at The Eventing Spring Carnival 2024 are available on request. 

Please let Georgie know if you would like any further information. 

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We are off!

And so it begins… The Start of the 2024 Eventing Season. Week 9 of the year and we have our first BE event running this weekend – Poplar Park.

Event Location: Poplar Park Equestrian Centre, Poplar Farm, Woodbridge, Hollesley, Suffolk, IP12 3NA

Some specific event requests for the following two days please:

  • NO e-bikes on the cross country course when the course is ‘live’.
  • Various XC course walks on offer – please check the BE website or eventing scores for more details.
  • Prize money claim forms should be submitted online by Monday 25 March 2024.

Entrance Policy

Each car displaying a current BE membership card will be admitted free unless there are non member passengers when the charge will be £5 per car.

Cars not displaying a current BE membership card will be charged £15 with all proceeds going to our chosen charities.

Travel Warning

The A14 Eastbound is currently closed between J37 and J39 and will remain closed until 12 on 2 March for emergency roadside drain works.  This has been causing significant delays throughout Newmarket and the surrounding villages. Please bear this in mind and allow extra time for your journey.

Poplar celebrates their 40th anniversary this weekend – CONGRATULATIONS

Good luck and enjoy. 

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BETTALIFE & EHOA

Veteran Eventing Championship 2024

We are delighted to announce that, for a second year, the Event Horse Owners AssociatIon with the support of BETTALIFE will run a league for veteran riders competing in British Eventing fixtures. 

The EHOA are indebted to BETTALIFE, a company that needs little introduction being widely recognised for its interest in the sport of eventing and for the gift of prizes and products to the winning competitors, as well as generously providing all EHOA members with a code (EHOA10) for 10% off all website orders.

BETTALIFE will have their stand at Badminton, Bramham, Burghley & Allerton Park Horse Trials this season, so please do be sure to visit them to take a look at the range of products available where they’ll also be sure to have show offers too!  

For more information click here

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Discount Provider Offer – Gemini Stud

With spring just around the corner, The Gemini Stud are delighted to offer EHOA members the opportunity to use the new Gemini Stud graded Full Thoroughbred stallion “Velvet Glove” who will be standing at stud for the very first time this season.

The three year old16.2hh bay stallion is blessed with not one but two x 1.60m show jumping sires in his pedigree via Hand In Glove (who is the sire of Jaguar Mail who is the sire of Colorado Blue & Vassily De Lassos) and Volchebnik who jumped in Nations Cups and at 1.60m with Rodrigo Pessoa. 

Velvet Glove has already been booked to CCI5* and Advanced Event mares and will be available for both chilled and frozen semen at Equibreed near Reading for the 2024 stud season.

Mare owners can find out more about Velvet Glove at:- https://www.thegeministud.com/velvet-glove

EHOA mare owners can use Velvet Glove with a 15% discount this season and there are concessions for CCI4* and CCI5* mares.

For further information and to arrange a visit to see Velvet Glove Glove in person please contact Georgie Belton at The Gemini Stud on 01664 454 929 and via email at:- enquiries@thegeministud.com


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Grassroots Webinar

The EHOA will once again be running some online webinars. For those of you who have qualified for the Voltaire Design Grassroots Championships 2024, we would like to invite you and your friends who have qualified (open to non members of the EHOA) to some online zoom sessions..

These 45 minute sessions are being led by our two EHOA Board members British Eventing coach Mark Corbett and Miranda Heynes who competed at Badmonton Grassroots herself in 2022.

The aim is to give you an idea on what to expect over the Badminton Competition, what to bring and how to ensure you and your horse are fit enough. We will also finish with a question and answer sessions for anyone who has specific concerns or questions.

No question is too small and we are here to help – if you prefer not to ask you question at the time, do please send it in ahead of time so that we can make sure we cover it for you.

A variety of topics will be cover during the sessions.

Please register your interest in joining the sessions by emailing theehoa@gmail.com and we will send you a zoom invitation.

Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

The first session will be held on March 4th at 18:30 and will cover horse fitness and event planning.

The second session will be held on March 25th again at 18:30 and will cover rider fitness. We will be joined by Katie Bleekman (Personal Training & Online Coach | KKB FITNESS | (eventriderfitness.com) a personal trainer and online fitness coach who is equestrian specific who will lead the discussions on rider fitness and what can be achieved from you own home.

Further sessions will be run in April if there is demand from competitors which will include preparation for each phase, course walking, packing for horse and rider and what to expect on arrival.

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BE Support Trust Quiz

Join BEST on Thursday the 29th of February for a charity quiz extravaganza to raise funds and have a lot of fun…

Making the most of the extra day this leap year and organising an online general knowledge quiz – and we’d love your support to promote it!

Join us online on Thursday the 29th of February from 7:00pm until 8:30pm for a fun general knowledge quiz with prizes, a trophy and bragging rights there for the taking. We would be over the moon if you’re able to promote to your friends, fellow riders and online followers. Here’s everything you need to know:

● Tickets are £5 per individual or £20 per team (max of 5 people)

● We’ll send out links to the quiz on the morning of the 29th of February…

● …So include your email address when you buy tickets – link to tickets

● There’s a trophy for first place and prizes for the top three teams or individuals.

● The whole thing is in aid of the British Eventing Support Trust to support our work

So, gather your friends, colleagues, quiz enthusiasts, fellow owners or your family, form a team and get involved. Thank you in advance and we hope to see you there on the night!