North Region Qualifiers
On the 22nd May the North Region Qualifiers were held at West Moor Farm Equestrian Centre.
We were due to take three ponies up to West Moor – Flag, Gypsy & Baz but unfortunately Baz, (who is a stalwart of Morpeth RDA), was taken ill that morning and unable to travel which left us with quite a dilemma. Andy our coach & chairperson made a couple of phone calls and was very generously offered the loan of two ponies from Newcastle RDA which enabled all of our riders to still compete even though some of them were riding ponies that they had never ridden before – we are extremely grateful to Avril Lomas and the rest of her team at Newcastle RDA for the loan of Will & Rusty.
The results on the day were as follows:
Morgan 1st Show Jumping on Flag
Morgan 1st Dressage on Flag
Blue( Bluebell) 2nd Dressage on Gypsy
Talitha 1st Dressage on Tilly ( Washington RDA)
Kalin 1st Countryside Challenge on Gypsy
Freya 1st Countryside Challenge on Rusty (Newcastle RDA)
Mal 1st Countryside Challenge on Gypsy
Bella 2nd Dressage on Flag
Marc 1st Dressage on Flag
Elizabeth 1st Dressage on Gypsy
Derek 2nd Dressage on Gypsy
Jamie 5th Countryside Challenge on Flag
Callum 3rd Countryside Challenge on Will ( Newcastle RDA )
We are extremely proud of our riders and wish good luck to all those who qualified for the National Championships. We are also happy to report that Baz has made a full recovery although he did have us worried for a while.
A visit from the High Sheriff of Northumberland
During March we were extremely honoured to have a visit from the High Sheriff of Northumberland, Diana Barkes. As you can see we wasted no time in getting her to join in with our volunteering. As well as making friends with our lovely pony Buddy Diana presented long service awards to some of North Region RD’s volunteers. For more photos visit our events 2024 page
Annual General Meeting
MORPETH RDA GROUP
NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Morpeth RDA Group will be held on Thursday 22nd February 2024 at 11am in the Equine Classroom at Kirkley Hall.
National Virtual Championships
We are extremely pleased to announce that Elizabeth Cockburn & Marc Dawson who competed in the RDA 2023 National Virtual Championships gained 2nd & 4th placings respectively in Class 35 led dressage walk only – senior section. We are so proud of you both.
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