North Canterbury Dressage

Closing today

I hope you all gave your Horse friends and extra carrot yesterday for their birthday. How quickly it seems to come around.

Just a friendly reminder that the WRC Rangiora Dressage Day closes in a weeks' time. They are giving Rugs again for the series and the only way to win them is by actually competing.

Ken

I am happy to attach the graded schedule for the first day of dressage for the WRC at Rangiora.

Karen and I are not involved at all with the running of these competitions, but we certainly wish them well.

If you have any questions about the schedule there is a secretary's email address in the schedule.

Good Luck

Ken

For those who have not seen this post via Dressage Canterbury here is the good news regarding Dressage at Rangiora Showgrounds. Karen and I will support this group as and when we can.

We had intended to launch our WRC Dressage at the AGM with members present. In the event our Canterbury Dressage friends were so excited about our series event they beat us to it and announced it yesterday. Andrea, in her role as chair of the new sub-committee, and I have prepared this announcement for you.

Breaking News

We are extremely excited to announce that WRC will be taking over the running of the North Canterbury Dressage days run at the Rangiora A&P grounds from August of this year.Our rationale for this decision is that with the growth of the club, we need to find a sustainable and solid fundraising arm to enable us to continue to subsidise rallies, training and other events for the benefit of our entire membership. Rather than having several single
events run at separate venues throughout the year which subsequently require a new budget, set up and planning for each venue, this event series enables us to run a number of events all at one venue following a tried and tested format.

A sub-committee of members has been formed to oversee these events and our aim is to widen the classes for broader participation and to make this a welcome pathway for those who might want to give dressage a go through additional ungraded and musical classes, including pairs to music, as well as continuing to offer Graded classes for those riders seeking to gain points towards National dressage series.

The adoption of this series is extremely important for a number of reasons. Not only is it a huge fundraising opportunity but it raises the standing of the club and its members. We will be supporting both our local A&P Association, our governing bodies of the sport ESNZ and DNZ as well as enabling regional competitive riders to have access to an important venue to accumulate graded points. It fosters enormous collaboration which is what WRC is
all about.

We plan to trial this for one season through to March 2027 to ensure it is a viable income stream so there is commitment for one year only at this stage with the option for a further two years.

We hope all our members will be as enthusiastic about this opportunity as we are on the committee and that we will have plenty of volunteers stepping forward to help with the series. Its success depends on your input and in turn the membership stands to benefit from a wider variety of subsidised activities throughout the year.

As always we welcome your thoughts and feedback. We had intended to wait until the AGM to unveil these plans but it seems that the enormous
enthusiasm for us taking over this series has meant that this is already being discussed in certain circles. Through our commitment to being open and transparent with our members, we felt it pertinent to make this announcement as soon as we had finalised the plans which
has only happened this week. As they say, all the best laid plans….

What a great Prize Giving well done Karen & Nicki as I worked through the other results all I could hear was laughter and clapping.

This day had large smiles, great sunshine and without doubt some sadness. Karen and I were talking last night and each had regrets but like all good things the time was right.

Thank you to all those who gave Karen and I the thank you gifts it really added great joy to the day as you can see from the photos.

Thanks to Krystal Merry for sending these so promptly. No doubt Krystal will have the photos up soon.

The weather looks great so let's hope for a final day to remember.

We are holding our Prize Giving at approx. 2.30pm with light refreshments and all are welcome.

We will be presenting the REWARDING EXCELLENCE Champion and Reserve plus Our final Series Champion and Reserve Rosettes plus all the afternoon's Rosettes.

Join us for our final celebration

Ken & Karen

As disappointing as the numbers are we feel we must go ahead with Sundays Dressage as it is not only the end of this series but also the last day of the rewarding excellence competition.

However, we are going ahead without paying prizemoney. We know we will not cover costs anyway, but we need to remove prize money and just have Rosettes. If you are entered and are unhappy with that, we will refund your payment.

By leaving it open we hope for a few more entries

Ken

We need lots more people to operate this competition

How disappointing to return home from nationals and see we are well short of the numbers need to run our last ever show.

As usual entries don't close until 8m tomorrow so please if you are thinking about coming let's make it a great day

Ken

My last Facebook message

As I will be at the Nationals from Wednesday, I might be slower at replying to emails than usual. I will try and check them now and again.

As this closes next Monday at 8pm please get your entries in for the last day.

I am working on getting the series up on Evo but have come across a problem which I will need to talk to John about today. Hopefully this should be available by tomorrow morning.

Also, prize giving for the Rewarding Excellence check the schedule on Evoevents. Still a possible 20 points to be gained on the last day.
This is taken from your best 8 scores so things can change now if you have great scores.

Enjoy the rain the perfect start to Autumn, NOT.

Sadly, after 4 years, the very last North Canterbury Dressage, run by Karen & Ken, is open for entry

This is also the prizegiving day for our REWARDING EXCELLENCE promotion with an additions Reserve prize also now available.

We have been so lucky that we have had the support of such wonderful Sponsors that have allowed us to hand out our special Rosettes. As day 4 is the last day of this series we will be handing out the last of our large championship Rosettes. An update on the championship will be available earl next week on Evoevents.

LET'S MAKE THIS SPECIAL