RULES

This Competition will be run in accordance with British Riding Club Rules for Competitions 24 (ref, rules as Oct 1^st 2023 for A/E )

Entry is open to all affiliated Riding Clubs in Area 17. Competitors only, are permitted to ride the horse on the show ground.

British Riding Clubs, Moreton Equestrian Centre and persons acting on their behalf, do not accept any liability for any loss, accident or damage to any person, animal, vehicle or goods occurring in connection with this event.  It is a condition of entry that each competitor indemnifies the organiser against any claim.

Whilst mounted, competitors must wear the correct riding clothes, which includes ‘Protective Headwear’, with a harness properly adjusted and fastened, also wearing your number. Failure to do so may incur elimination. ‘Protective Headwear’ constitutes a hat meeting one of the following standards, and has been tagged with the PINK tag. Hats can be checked at the steward in the “LOG CABIN”

Competitors must report to the steward and be ready to ride up to 10 minutes before the allotted time.

VACCINATIONS : The Passport/vaccination Certificate must, under penalty of elimination, accompany the horse to all official competitions, the competitor is responsible for producing it on demand. YEARLY VACS.

HEALTH AND SAFETY : The organisers and land owners have taken all reasonable precautions to ensure the health and safety of everyone present, for these measures to be effective, everyone must obey the instructions of the organisers, officials and stewards and take reasonable precautions to avoid and prevent accidents occurring.

Horses or ponies must not be tied up outside boxes or trailers and left unattended,                   

Dogs must be kept on short leads at all times.

The course consists of show jumps immediately followed by cross country fences and will finish with the last fence as a show jump, the joker fence, which will be set at a discretionary 10cm higher than the rest of the course.

HORSES WILL BE PERMITTED TO COMPETE IN TWO CONSECUTIVE CLASSES

These classes are as RULE CHANGE 6^th June 2023 (Inc. 1st Oct start date)

PLEASE ENSURE YOU FAMILIARISE YOURSELF WITH THE RULES IN THE CURRENT  B.R.C.  RULE BOOK  2024 :- IN PARTICULAR

Page 94-96 for TACK rules  

Page 88-90 for ELIGIBILITY

Page 79-81 for ARENA EVENTING rules & scoring

Page 99-102 for Speeds & jumping efforts

The Championships for the ARENA EVENTING are now to be held at: Aston Le Walls on the weekend of the 31st May- 2^ndJune 2024

Medical arm bands are strongly recommended and must be properly  completed with the relevant competitors details and worn on the arm.

PRE-ENTRIES:- To the BRC Office,  online via the BHS  Bookshop by Friday 22nd March 2024.

Prelim and detailed entry forms are available from BRC web site

DETAILED ENTRIES, no later than Monday 15th April 2024 please

e-mail to:-  r.mael@btinternet.com 

Bob Mael, Rushcombe Farm, Higher Blandford Road, Corfe Mullen, WIMBORNE, Dorset BH21 3JF

PASSPORTS: ALL horses passports MUST BE on the database,

NO paper copies with the entries. Yearly Vaccinations.

Payments to be made by Clubs only by BACS  to:-

PDRC-AE:- Sort code 30-96-73 Account no 62499260 For the reference please add your club name plus AE. Please advise the secretary by e-mail  when payment has been made:- vkp56@hotmail.co.uk

ENTRY FEES TBC in Feb: All Classes:-£20 individual £80 Team

TIMES: Will be on the website:-  www.ridingclubresults.co.uk

By latest Thursday 18th April 2024.

Please print your own numbers.

SUBSTITUTIONS: In the event of withdrawals or changes, substitutions will be allowed. The deadline for complex substitutions will be Wednesday 17th April 2024 by 1800hrs via email or phone to Bob Mael (07595 219406)

A complex substitution is one where teams are re-arranged or horse/riders moved from one team to another. Simple replacements of horse and rider in a team can be done up until time of declaration.

DECLARATIONS: must be made by team managers at least 30 mins before the start of the class.

HEALTH AND SAFETY: The organisers of this competition have taken reasonable precautions to ensure the health and safety of everyone present. For these measures to be effective everyone must take all reasonable precautions to avoid and prevent accidents occurring, and must obey the instructions of officials and stewards.

HAT TAGGING:-  Hats must be tagged (PINK is current colour) before competitors will be allowed to ride.(Checking in log cabin)

BODY PROTECTORS ARE COMPULSORY. From 1^st January 2024 BRC will no longer accept 2009 Purple labels. Now Blue Labels

Stop watches are NOT permitted