The Hodgemoor Challenge Trophy is a year-long challenge, starting in 2010 and continuing every year, designed to encourage riders of all talents to compete in a variety of disciplines in the local area. The perpetual trophies (which have been donated by Susie and Marcus) are for Top Rider, Top Junior and for Special Achievement; the winner will retain the trophy for a year and engrave their name and their horse's name. The top 3 places (open and junior) and the special achievement winner will get a smaller replica trophy to keep (see our picture of all the trophies).

Please download this information in printable form and post on the notice board of your livery. Thanks!

We are pleased that local companies are offering additional prizes worth close to £1000 for the top placed riders (see list below). We are still open to a title and trophy sponsor at £250 per year or £500 for three years.

• Chalfont Saddlery for clothing, horse gear, feed and bedding. www.chalfontsaddlery.com  01494 875175: £30 gift vouchers for 2 winners. 10% discount vouchers on a purchase up to £100 for 2nd 3rd and special achievement, with thanks to Shelly Gulliford.
• Southbank Photographic for a great photo shoot of you and your horse. www.southbankphoto.co.uk  01494 870 397: £50 gift voucher for 2 winners, and 25% discount vouchers on a photo shoot and or prints up to £100 for 2nd 3rd and special achievement, with thanks to Zoe and Pete Garner-Glowski.
• Aescwood Riding School in Rawlings Lane, Seer Green, where many of our members spent a happy days on a pony as a kid. 01494 875048: vouchers for 20% off introductory fun day or birthday party for the two winners, with thanks to Audrey Holbrook.
• Barton Reynolds 490 London Rd, High Wycombe, HP11 1LP, 01494 523888. Horse box sales, maintenance and MOT. £50 voucher for the winner, £25 voucher for the junior winner and vouchers for 10% of the value of a service or MOT for the other five winners. With thanks to Matt Reynolds who keeps our trucks so well.
• Pristine Paddocks cmsholder@talktalk.net 01628 530607. Get your horse field perfectly clean with Marion Holder's professional mechanised vacuuming service. £20 off a 4 hour cleaning session for the two winners and vouchers for 10% discount for the other winners. Thanks, Marion.

The Challenge runs from January through September, with the awards being presented at our annual get-together in October each year. The calendar, scores and placings will be kept up to date on www.hodgemoor.org.uk/challenge. 

Scoring is as follows (subject to changes up to the first event):
1) Any amateur rider can join the Hodgemoor Riding Association and contest the Challenge.
2) You can enter the Challenge at any moment in the year and your previous scores, if properly reported by the event organiser, and subject to (3) below, will count.
3) 2 scores will be dropped out of the total (which might be up to 20 events), to help those that cannot turn out for every event,
4) Every event will have the same weighting in the scoring. 
5) If there are classes, each class would carry the same amount of points; this means that a less experienced rider has the same chance of winning overall as an expert. Experienced riders will be asked not to enter a junior class, based on their own declarations and our knowledge of their performance in the recent past. 
6) Any rider can compete on more than one horse; the horse and rider combination defines the accumulation of points.
7) A horse and rider combination that competes twice in an event, in different classes, scores the average of their scores.
8) Each rider can play one joker in the year. An email to us, in advance of the event, will suffice for the marks scored at that event to be doubled.
 

2010 Calendar and Results of each round   updated 25 April in the evening

Download the complete list of events popular with Hodgemoor members and the Hodgemoor Challenge rounds. Click here.

Next event: Sunday 23 May.  Dressage at Austens Farm. Please contact Sacha Hamilton sacha.hamilton@hotmail.co.uk for details.
 
 

Sunday 31 January	New Year Dressage	Waylands	Results
Sunday 7 March	Dressage	Waylands	Results
Sunday 25 April	Mini Cross Country	Homefarm Orchard	Results
Sunday 23 May	Dressage	Austens	Results
Sunday 6 June	Cross Country	Grove Farm	Cancelled (hard ground)
Sunday 13 June	Le Trec	Homefarm Orchard	Results
Saturday 19 June	Unaffiliated Dressage	Windmill Farm	www.windmill-farm.co.uk
Sunday 4 July	Open Show	Willow Court	Rachel Lulham
Date to be adv ised	Dressage and showjumping	Widmer Farm
Date to be advised	Mini Cross Country	Homefarm Orchard	susie@hodgemoor.org.uk
Saturday 7 August	Unaffiliated Dressage	Windmill Farm	www.windmill-farm.co.uk
Saturday 15 August	Cross Country	Hedgerley Green	Ailsa Wood
Saturday 28 August option	Mini Cross Country	Homefarm Orchard	susie@hodgemoor.org.uk
Saturday 18 September	Dressage and jumping	Highclere	Kevin Malyon kevinmalyon@hotmail.com
No events after the end of September

Latest standings

Click here for the list (in MS Excel form) of riders and their current standings in the Hodgemoor Challenge. 
 

Entry form

Please fill out the following and email to marcus@bicknell.com or click here for a pdf version. Entry is free of charge for members.
 
 

Please register me for the 2010 Hodgemoor Challenge Trophy

Full name …………………………………………….  Name of horse ..……….…………………………..

Colour………………………… Type………………………… and height of horse …………………………..

Rider's address …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………….……………………………Post code …………………………………

Phone number ……………………………………  Email address ……………………………………………..

Hodgemoor Riding Association membership number ……… renewal date …………………………
 

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Marcus Bicknell                                                    (formatted for a window envelope)
Homefarm Orchard
Threehouseholds
Chalfont St. Giles
Bucks HP8 4LP                                                   or by email to marcus@bicknell.com