Solihull Riding Club

🎅🏼🎄Christmas Fun Show 🎄🎅🏼 We had such a fabulous day yesterday for our annual Christmas Fun Show! 👏 We had some lovely feedback yesterday and we’re so glad you all enjoyed it ❤️ seeing all the kids having a great time and enjoying their prizes makes all the hard work worthwhile. 📹 Take a look at our video from the day - fancy dress, novelty classes, pairs, dogs, hobby horses, barrel jumping - we had the lot! 🤩 Thank you again to all our wonderful sponsors who helped us to bring this show to life: SnowDome Voice Fostering Midlands horse arenas A.W.Castle Equestrian Services Sally Baker Chloe Smith Karen Owens Foot Practitioner Equine Bio Genie Avonvale Equine Practice Warwickshire Horse Boxes Ltd T & a Trailers Mills Stables Retraining Racehorses Corner House Equine Clinic All our AMAZING prizes are donated by Heaven Sends. 📸 Photos by Top Shots Photography - all online in their gallery. We run three Fun Shows a year at Easter, Halloween and Christmas. They’re designed to be as fun and family friendly as possible, for children to enjoy their ponies (and take home loads of fab prizes, rosettes and sweets 😋) Our Fun Shows get more and more popular, and this Christmas Show sold out days before the closing date! Keep your eye out for details of our Easter Show next year and make sure you get your entries in nice and early 😉

✨ Aspen Cooling Ltd Indoor Arena Eventing - Sunday 17th November ✨ Don’t miss your chance to join us on Sunday for the next competition in our Indoor Arena Eventing series! 🎉 Enter here: https://www.myridinglife.com/eventdetails.aspx?id=488116 With HUGE cash prizes in the Championship event, this is definitely THE unaffiliated series to be competing in this winter! 👏👏 The more events you enter, the more you save - join us at three qualifying events and you can enter the Championship for just £10 🤩 ⚫️ 70/80/90/100cm classes ⚫️ £35 per entry ⚫️ Indoor warm up and competition ⚫️ Chance to qualify for our Championship and win amazing cash prizes 📸 Here’s Emily and Silver Scribble on their way to a double clear in our first event of the series! This course is the 80, with a combination of skinny and wider XC fences. A huge thank you to Aspen Cooling Ltd for their generous support of this series and providing incredible opportunities for grassroots riders 👏👏

🌟 Indoor Arena Eventing - Sunday 27th October - sponsored by Aspen Cooling Ltd 🌟 📣 Entries are still open for our first Indoor Arena Eventing competition of our new winter series! Come and get your eventing fix with us this Sunday and have a spin around our super Jump4Joy fences. We’ve got brushes, arrow heads, corners and roll tops 👏 Enter here: https://livefeed.myridinglife.com/feed?LocationID=899&e=488115 ✅ £35 per round ✅ Indoor warm-up and competition ✅ Classes from 70 - 100cm We’ve got four dates for our new winter series including a Championship event with prize money on offer: ⚫️ Sunday 27th October ⚫️ Sunday 17th November ⚫️ Sunday 5th January ⚫️ Sunday 2nd February Enter all three qualifying shows and enter the Championship for just £10! 👏 📹 Here’s Sarah and Felix at our first Indoor Arena Eventing competition that we ran in March earlier this year, to give you an idea of what to expect! 🤩

💥 British Showjumping at Solihull Riding Club 💥 We’ve officially kicked off our indoor British Showjumping season and we’re delighted to welcome you all back! Here’s some clips from our recent three day show - can you spot the improvements we’ve made to the indoor since last season!? ✅ New lights ✅ Refreshed surface ✅ New jumps ✅ New boards and branding Come and join us for our next BS Shows: ⚫️ Wednesday 16th October (entries open now!) 🔴 Wednesday 23rd October ⚫️ Wednesday 30th October Hope to see you there 👋

💫 Avonvale Equine Vets Diddy One Day Event 💫 WOW - what an absolutely amazing day we’ve had for our first Diddy One Day Event of the season 🤩☀️ the sun shone, the courses rode brilliantly and we saw lots of horses and riders enjoying themselves 👏 A huge well done to everybody who competed with us today 🎉 Here are our winners from each of our sections: 40cm 🥇Amelia-Mae Licursi and Bertie Bassett 50cm - Senior Unassisted 🥇Tiaa Taylor-Collins and Senior Benny 50cm - Junior Assisted 🥇Georgia Coates and Rolo 50cm - Junior Unassisted 🥇Pippa Cooper and Springfield Boy 60cm - Senior Unassisted Section 1 🥇 Sophie Miah and Rosa 60cm - Senior Unassisted Section 2 🥇Stephanie Burgoyne and Kai 60cm - Junior Unassisted 🥇Mollie Layton and Logan Dream Colours Sophie Miah, winner of the 60cm Senior Unassisted section said “Today was fantastic - it’s been really well organised and the cross country course was lovely and inviting. It was our first event together and it’s been such a confidence boost. It’s been a really brilliant day!” We’d like to say another big thank you to Avonvale Equine Practice who have generously sponsored our Diddy One Day Event series this summer. If you won one of their rosettes today, please do tag us and Avonvale in your pictures 🤩 If this was the first one, imagine what the rest of the Diddy season will be like! We’re already looking forward to the next one on Saturday 15th June 🎉

⭐️ British Riding Clubs Area 5 Intermediate Dressage Qualifier ⭐️ Our Senior and Junior BRC Dressage teams were out in force at Weston Lawns for the Area 5 Intermediate Dressage Qualifier - between them, our members completed a very impressive 21 tests! 🤩 We saw some fabulous results, including the Junior team and several Senior individuals qualifying for the Championship 👏Thank you to all those who represented the Club - you did us all proud! ❤️ 🤔 Did you know that as well as being a competition venue, we’re a BRC-affiliated Club? Our members are eligible to ride on our BRC teams which are inclusive, fun and friendly - our membership price is £14.50 per month and covers: 🌟Part of your entry fee to every BRC competition paid for you 🌟Championship entries covered via payment and vouchers 🌟Access to regular monthly team training in our outstanding facilities for a base price of £10 per session 🌟Free usage of our covered indoor arena (during daylight hours), members arena, members cross country training field and boundary ride 🌟Regular members special hire days with 50% off other facility hire If you’re interested in joining us, send us a DM or visit our website and fill out our membership enquiry form: https://solihullridingclub.co.uk/membership/british-riding-clubs-teams/

🎉 Aspen Cooling Ltd Indoor Arena Eventing - Sunday 17 March 🎉 🤩 Thinking of entering our upcoming indoor arena eventing competition? Have a 30 second spin round with Atlanta and Pumpkin and see what you can expect from our AMAZING new set of Jump4Joy jumps! We have classes at: ⚫️ 70cm ⚫️ 80cm ⚫️ 90cm ⚫️ 1m Whether you want to get ready for the upcoming eventing season or just come and have some fun, we’d love for you to join us 🎉 Cash prizes as follows: 💰 1st - £50 💰 2nd - £40 💰 3rd - £30 💰 4th - £20 💰 5th - £10 Enter here: https://www.myridinglife.com/eventdetails.aspx?id=459055 Please do come and support us - it’s going to be a great show 🙏

✨ British Showjumping ✨ We run British Showjumping in our main indoor arena throughout the winter - come and join us to get out of the cold weather 🥶❄️ All our BS Shows are kindly supported by Solihull Equestrian Shop, who are sponsoring the Solihull Riding Club league. Competitors accumulate points throughout the winter season, and the overall winner will be awarded an Ikonic bridle 🤩 📸 Here’s a video from today’s show - thanks to everyone who came and jumped with us today! Can anyone spot our new fence… we’ll be announcing a new partnership very soon 👀 Come and join us at our next shows 👇🏻 February British Showjumping dates 🔴 Wednesday 14th 🔴 Wednesday 28th We’re also running an unaffiliated showjumping training show on Wednesday 21st! Enter our shows online: https://solihullridingclub.co.uk/event-diary/

💫 Solihull Senior Showjumping Team Training 💫 Solihull Riding Club is a BRC-affiliated club, which means that our members are able to represent us at British Riding Clubs competitions throughout the year! Our Riding Club teams are fun, friendly and inclusive - they’re the perfect way to make friends and enjoy riding and competing with your horse. Our ethos for our BRC teams is to let as many people as possible have a go - our trainers are supportive and encouraging, and you can compete for the Club either in a team or as an individual - there’s always room for everyone, no matter how competitive you are. 🤩 We offer discounted team training to our members who wish to ride on our BRC teams - our senior showjumping training is only £10 a session! 📹 Here’s some clips from our most recent senior showjumping team training session. We were joined by some of our regular combinations like Atlanta and Pumpkin and Emma and Harley who have represented us at multiple Championships, and newbies Millie and 5 year old Seren who came to their first team training session and jumped their first clear round around a full course! Everyone is welcome 🙏 Become a member now and come and join us at the next one - visit https://solihullridingclub.co.uk/membership/ or send us a DM for more info.

♦️Confidence boosting polework sessions♦️ Come and get your winter training in at Solihull Riding Club with Jane Richmond! These are encouraging sessions with lots of different polework exercises to get you and your horses thinking 🤔 📹 Here’s Rosa, Harley, Rosie and Joey going through the exercises in Jane’s most recent session. 📆 Upcoming polework dates available: 🔴 Friday 12 January: 10.30am - 12.30pm - £25 https://www.myridinglife.com/eventdetails.aspx?id=448593 ⚫️ Tuesday 16 January: Evening 5.30 - 6.30pm or 6.45 - 7.45pm - £20 https://livefeed.myridinglife.com/feed?e=451914&LocationID=899 🔴 Monday 5th February 11am - 1pm - £25 https://www.myridinglife.com/eventdetails.aspx?id=453648 Jane is one of our two in-house trainers alongside Sally Baker. Jane and Sally each hold two group lessons a week at the Club - their sessions always include a flatwork element and a jumping/polework element, which varies depending on what facilities are available. Everyone is welcome and Jane and Sally are experienced in tailoring their sessions to suit their riders! All sessions are £25 - book now via our website calendar: https://solihullridingclub.co.uk/event-diary/ Jane Richmond: Mondays 11am - 1pm Fridays 10.30am - 12.30pm Sally Baker: Tuesdays and Fridays 12 - 2pm

And that's a wrap on our first British Show Jumping competition of the season ✨ A huge thank you to: Show Jumping Judges: Sue Murray & Sue Wixey Course Builder: Mark McGowan Collecting Ring Steward: Carol Morgan A huge well done to our winners of the day Fae Armstrong - British Novice Faye Sharp - 90cm Open Jamie Wingrove - Discovery Fae Sharp - 1m Open Victoria Douglas Jones - Newcomers Joseph Fernyhough - Foxhunter Mennell Watson - National 1.30m Open Thank you to everyone who competed with us today, we hope to see you again over the winter Photographers 📸 Top Shots Photography https://www.topshots.org.uk/

Unaffiliated ODE Championships - Saturday 14th October Kindly sponsored by Aspen Cooling Ltd ✨Any rider placed 1st - 10th in any SRC UA ODE has automatically qualified for the SRC ODE Championships✨ We will also be running open classes too ✨Amazing prizes up for grabs✨ 🏆Prize Money available 🏆 Enter here: https://www.myridinglife.com/eventdetails.aspx?id=427633