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 top three riders will retain for a year one of the three Hodgemoor Challenge trophies (which have been donated by Susie and Marcus) on which to engrave their name and their horse’s name. The overall winner, class winners (to be decided) and top 3 places will get a smaller replica trophy to keep. Local companies are offering additional prizes for the top placed riders.

The disciplines will include all those with which we have been successful over the last few years, for a total of 12 to 20 events on weekends and the occasional midweek evening, including 
• Show-jumping
• Dressage and dressage to music, 
• Cross-country (including a mini totaliser in our cross country field),
• One-day eventing or combination of two disciplines, 
• Mounted Games and Le Trec

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
 
 
 

Sunday 31 January	New Year Dressage	Waylands	Results
Sunday 7 March	Dressage	Waylands	Results
Easter Saturday 3 April	Mini Cross Country	Homefarm Orchard	susie@hodgemoor.org.uk
Sunday 9 May	Dressage	Austens	Sacha Hamilton sacha.hamilton@hotmail.co.uk
Sunday 13 June	Le Trec	Homefarm Orchard	... demo and BBQ the evening before. Tim Taylor timrt@btopenworld.com
Saturday 17 July	Mini Cross Country	Homefarm Orchard	susie@hodgemoor.org.uk
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

Awaiting confirmation of dates for...                              "Option" means a spare date in case weather postpones the first.
One Day Event, Grove Farm, Ric and Jenien
Cross Country, Hedgerley, Alisa Wood
Open Show, Willow Court, Rachel Lulham                      We anticipate a dozen events ending at the end of September.
Dressage, Windmill Farm, Elaine Coleridge-Smith

Photos of 7 March dressage: http://www.peterjamesphotography.com

Latest standings

Click here for the list (in MS Excel form) of riders and their current standings in the Hodgemoor Challenge. Don't forget, you must register for the Challenge 2010 by filling out the entry form and returning it before the end of April. The standings show a "1" in the last column if the rider and horse are registered.
 

Entry form

Please fill out the following and email to marcus@bicknell.com or click here for a pdf version
 
 

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 …………………………
 

Please return to
 
 
 

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