During half term Team Woodbridge had a very successful Thursday at Suffolk Rural College for the Arena Eventing Hickstead qualifiers. Our teams comprised of the following riders:
- Year 6’s Tati
- Year 8’s Grace
- Year 9’s Edie
- Year 9’s Harry
- Year 9’s Zac
- Year 10’s Elodie
- Year 11’s Lois
- Year 13’s Katie
The day began with Year 6’s Tati winning the warm-up class, closely followed by our team of Lois, Edie, Harry, and Elodie winning the 70-75cm class, with Lois taking 1st place and Edie 2nd.
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The 80-85cm team also won with the top three individual places being awarded to Woodbridge riders. Elodie look 1st place, Harry 2nd, Katie 3rd and Grace 6th.
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Grace then went on to take 2nd place in the 90-95cm class riding Malin Spike, her first time stepping up to this height with a fantastic round; the team of Lois, Grace, Zac and Edie finished in 3rd place.
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Katie finished the day with a 2nd place in the 1m-1.05cm, with her pony Grannus Top Dollar.
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Well done to all the riders, they should be incredibly proud of themselves as all the qualifiers rode clear rounds. Our 70-75cm and 80-85cm teams qualified for Hickstead in May, as did Grace for the 90-95cm individual and Katie for 1m-105cm individual.
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