15 June 2025RIDING CLUB SHOW - SATURDAY 5TH JULY

https://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/ridingclub/documents/2025-show-schedule.docx

Here is the Schedule for our Riding Club Open Showing Show, to be held at Swartland, Dounby on Saturday 5th July.

As you can see we have a great selection of Inhand and Ridden classes, and as it's an Open Show, non members are very welcome to enter.

As well as the NPS Mountain & Moorland qualifiers for Scone in August, this show is also a qualifier for the Caledonian Showing Championships at Howe in October, and for the GOSSIP Golden Oldies Championship in September. Those wanting to qualify for GOSSIP should note that they MUST pre-purchase a qualifying card. The details and online links are on the schedule.

We have re-introduced some Shetland pony classes which we hope will be supported.

The closing date is Tuesday 1st July.

Can those who still have trophies to return please get them back asap, and definitely before the end of this month.

02 June 2025DRESSAGE LEAGUE and HELP NEEDED

The next League date is Saturday 19th July.

The 2025 Dressage League is now underway. It's an Open event, so everyone is welcome, and you don't need to ride at all the dates.

You can ride as many tests as you want.

Tests can be called.

Points will be awarded separately for Riding Club and Pony Club, although RC/PC may run in one class, depending on numbers.

There is also a Non League LONG Arena Test which can be ridden for £5. It will be judged and scored but no rosettes - this is for anyone who would like to give the long arena tests a go.

HELP REQUIRED.

For the Dressage to be able to run we are looking for some folk who would be willing to help the judges - it could be Writing or Scoring / Sorting Rosettes - training will be given to anyone who wants it. They say it would be ideal to have a bank of folk they could call on when required, and you wouldn't necessarily have to do every dressage date. It would be super to see the Dressage League continue to thrive with Tracey and Joy - if you are willing to go on their Helper List, or want to know more about what's involved send them a message or email [email protected] and we'll pass it on.

The 2025 League tests are Intro 3, Prelim 1, Prelim 3 and Novice 1, and they can be found on the links below and there's an extra Non-League Long Arena Test which can be ridden at the reduced fee of £5 for anyone wanting to try the long boards.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.spanglefish.com/s/34359/documents/intro-3.pdf

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.spanglefish.com/s/34359/documents/prelim-1.pdf

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.spanglefish.com/s/34359/documents/novice-1.pdf

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.spanglefish.com/s/34359/documents/prelim-3.pdf

https://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/ridingclub/documents/prelim-4-long.pdf

01 June 2025Riding Club Membership

https://britishridingclubs.sport80.com

BRC has implemented a new Membership Portal, which means the previous method of joining and paying is now defunct, so please do not bacs your membership fee to our account, it must go via Sport 80 - on the link above.

The old membership year no longer exists as it's now a rolling membership, so whatever month you join, your membership will run till the same date the following year.

If you are a new member joining could you please confirm you have signed up by emailing: [email protected] That way we can add you to our membership email list.

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