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St Helens Festival 5th July 2008 - Showing

St Helens Festival 6th July 2008 - Show Jumping

Dear member

Welcome to a new season at Laffak Riding Club. We will be starting the season off with the first point show on 20th April; the other shows are 18th May, 15th June, 20th July, 17th August and 21st September.
The Trophy Show will be on Bank holiday Monday 25th August.

Enclosed you will find a membership form, please help by filling this in and send it to me before the first show. The affiliation fee we have to pay to the British Horse Society has only gone up by 50p per member and the insurance fee has stayed the same so will not be putting up the membership & class entry fee this year. The membership fees will be the same as last year, Senior’s £14 and Junior’s £12. The class entry fee will be £4.00 members & £5.00 non-members. You will notice on the membership form I have put a space for a mobile phone number, this is in case we have to cancel a show and I can’t get hold of you, I will be able to send a Text to a contact number. It is also important that you put your post code on the membership form as we have to register our entire membership with the BHS so if they don’t have a post code they don’t send out the free copy of the rider magazine. If you want to get yourself organised before the show, you can print off the class entry form by going on to our web site www.laffakrc.org.uk

On the 18th May we will be holding a qualifier for The Premier Riding Club Championship which takes place on 11th 12th & 13th July at Myerscough College. At our April, May, June, & July shows you can qualify for the Shires Inter Club Challenge Championship held on 13th September in Staffordshire. There will also be qualifiers for the Northwest Show Jumping Championships to be held on 23rd & 24th August at Brookhouse Equestrian Centre, Northwich Cheshire. The 18th May & the 15th June shows will be qualifiers for the Blue Chip Festival of Champions the provisional date for this Championship is 19th & 20th July.

The St. Helens Show will be taking place on 5th & 6th July at Sherdley Park St. Helens. We will once again run classes for Ridden & In-hand Showing and Equitation on Saturday 5th and Show Jumping classes on Sunday 6th. Schedules for this show will be available later in the season.

As usual I am pleading for help before the shows and also on show days, we especially need people to help putting out jumps in the jumping ring on the Saturday. Can I also appeal to members and friends to help at the end of the jumping classes, by giving a hand putting the jumps to the side of the ring.

We are looking for SPONSORS for the Club Shows & St. Helens Show. If there is anyone who would to like to help the club by sponsoring a class, Please contact me and will give you some details.

I have enclosed a schedule of the season’s classes, Please note the times on the schedule are for a Guide only; classes can start before and after the time stated. If you are in one class and are also needed in another class please let the judge know? I have tried to time the classes so they don’t clash but I am afraid it is not always possible.

That’s all for now, I look forward to seeing you all at the first show, If you have any queries don’t hesitate to ring or E-mail me.

Yours sincerely
Linda Armstrong
Secretary