Updates for the Championships

Ring Six is now sponsored by The Garrick Group

The Northern Lunch sponsors The Classic Supreme Lightweight cob and

Virbac, which sponsors the HOYS cobs classes and championship, unfortunately missed their advertising slot – apologies to Virbac of which we are very appreciative.

Raffle at the National Championships – update 5^th September 2010 -Stop Press

More prizes added - 6th September... email Jo Clutton with your auction bids too...

It has been decided that due to the highly specialised nature of the Master Classes offered by some of our top professionals that those items alone will be offered as Silent Auction lots rather than within a raffle prize list – please see the amended list below.

Funds from this years’ events will go to the Grass Roots Training Fund and Combat Stress - Combat Stress is the UK's leading military charity specialising in the care of Veterans' mental health. Jo Clutton and her team will be selling raffle tickets over the duration of the show in aid of our Grass Roots Training Fund and Combat Stress.

There are some wonderful prizes which include, a holiday in Portugal, a fly fishing lesson at Roger Daltry's trout lakes in Sussex, Master Classes with some of our top professionals, Champagne, and many more lovely and desirable prizes that have been donated by members and their friends.

If any members would like to contribute a prize to two worthy causes please contact Jo Clutton on 01435864659 or  e mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Master classes are very popular so could more of our top professionals please contact Jo.

Prizes for both the raffle and Silent Auction are listed below and will be updated regularly.  The Auction is open now – please email or phone Jo with your bids and raffle tickets will be sold starting on Thursday evening and the draw will take place in the Garrick Arena on Saturday 11th September.

 Over the last five years Combat Stress has seen a 66% increase in demand for their services from Veterans. In March 2010, its Patron HRH The Prince of Wales launched The Enemy Within Appeal.   Please help Combat Stress reach our £30m target, over the next three years,  to provide better treatment and support to the escalating number of psychologically injured Veterans who are turning to us for help. To donate direct please go to  www.combatstress.org.uk   

Check out these concessions on late entries – limited classes only! 

 Concessionary late entry fees – some classes have limited entries - so for these classes only there is a concessionary late entry fee of just £5 extra per class entry - see list below for details. So please make the effort and get the horse bathed and ready to load in the lorry for the party of the season!  The Pairs class of course has NO LATE ENTRY FEE and only 6 entries to date - so why not grab this chance to appear in an evening performance?  This is the full list of classes for which the concessionary late entry fee rate applies.

Classes for which you now only pay an extra £5 for a late entry will be:  please hurry and get your entries in to take advantage of this special concession (entries as of 26th August 2010)  

15 The Oseman Maxi Working Cob – 3 Entries

23 The Rains & Saxby Am HP Large Hack of the Year – 5 Entries

33 The Arkell Grooms – 6 Entries

34 The Bearverfast LTD Pairs – 6 Entries

53 The Twiston-Davis Rising Star Riding Horse – 6 Entries

55 The Richardson & Windsor Veterans – 7 Entries

62 The Mennim Hack Mare – 7 Entries

64 The Holt-Atkinson & Byford Cob Mare – 7 Entries

69 The BSPA In-Hand Coloured – 7 Entries

70 The Lady Caroline Tyrrell Riding Horse Broodmare – 3 Entries

71 The Lady Caroline Tyrrell Riding Horse Foal – 3 Entries

72 The Lady Caroline Tyrrell Riding Horse Yearling – 4 Entries

74 The Lady Caroline Tyrrell Riding Horse Three-Year-Old – 5 Entries

75 The Lady Caroline Tyrrell Riding Horse In-Hand – 3 Entries

76 The Topham-Barnes Hack Broodmare – 5 Entries

77 The Topham-Barnes Hack Foal – 4 Entries

79 The Topham-Barnes Hack Two-Year-Old – 2 Entries

80 The Topham-Barnes Hack Three-Year-Old – 7 Entries

81 The Topham-Barnes Hack In-Hand – 1 Entries

83 The Rawding Cob Youngstock – 3 Entries

84 The Rawding Cob In-Hand – 5 Entries

85 The Stanley Grange Show Team Ltd Anglo/Part-bred Arab Broodmare – 1 Entry

86 The Stanley Grange Show Team Ltd Anglo/Part-bred Arab Foal – 0 Entries

88 The Stanley Grange Show Team Ltd In-Hand Anglo/Part-bred Arab – 3 Entry

Evening Entertainment at Addington

Moat View’s RC’s unbeaten Quadrille Display Team!

We are delighted to have secured arguably the most successful quadrille team ever to entertain us at the National Championship Show, each evening the Moat View Riding Club’s Quadrille team will present an Olympia Championship Quadrille for your entertainment – please come and support them and show your appreciation! 

First a little background - Quadrille is a competition  run by British Riding Clubs, the umbrella organisation to which all affiliated Riding Clubs belong. It consists of four riders and horses riding in formation to music in costume.  It is a closely fought competition with many teams coming from all over Britain to take part in the qualifier which up until this year has been held at Addington in October.  Four teams are selected from the qualifier to go the Olympia Christmas Horse Show in December. This is the ultimate accolade and the highlight of the Riding Clubs’ year. The competition is in two parts:  first the turnout where the Judges look in minute detail at all the horses and riders, with marks given or deducted for cleanliness & condition of horse, saddlery & rider plus judging the costumes. The second part is the routine judged on interpretation of the music and performance.