News at Dorset Showground


DORSET SHOWGROUND UPDATE  - 23rd March  2011

Dates for our BS Summer season are on the website, similar dates to 2010.  Schedules for May & June, three day shows, now on the website, also unaffiliated evening schedule. 

With the lovely spring weather the winter lawn mowers ( Zwartbale sheep, now with lambs, they’re very pretty, black & white and somewhat large!) have been moved out and Paul has cut and rolled the arenas and warm ups. 

We’ve had a long hard look at our showground qualifiers over the winter and as attendance of the finals has been poor over the last couple of years we have decided to only run the 1.05m Amateur qualifier/ final this year.  In place of the others we are going to run a points system with prizes at the end of the season.  Categories will be:  Most successful Under 18, Veteran, Owner, Novice Horse and Open Horse, details in the schedules.

We will run the unaffiliated points classes together with the Minor championships, unaffiliated Derbies & Clear Round at the BS shows. We are also planning to run evening shows with clear round & unaffiliated jumping and a fun day with Showing and some unaffiliated jumping with lots of classes for the children and their ponies as well as the adults.

With evening entertainment in mind, Hog Roast at the June and July three day shows and dog and owner/groom agility classes in July, (we do seem to have as many dogs as horses at our shows!)   Would like to run an evening mini puissance in either July or August (looking for a sponsor or group of sponsors to help with the prize money, anyone interested please give me a ring, 01747 838 888.)  

Please note the August show will be on Thursday 18th, Friday 19th & Saturday 20th.   The reason for the change of date is to avoid clashing with Mid Somerset show on 21st August.

We will be offering competitors the opportunity to extend their stay with us at no extra cost in order to attend both Mid Somerset Show  (21st ) and Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show (Wednesday 17th August).    We will be running some junior affiliated classes in August, if anyone is willing to help us get the Juniors up and running with sponsorship or ideas of classes they would like please let me know.

 Looking forward to seeing you in May.

Warm regards

Shirley

 




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