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village idiot :D
Ely Eventing Centre has just been given the go ahead to add an extra day to the forthcoming Event on 31 May - 1 June. The extra day will be on the preceding Friday, 30 May.
Anyone who's been before knows that it's a cracking free day out, anyone who hasn't been - come along and have a look.
Of course the absolute BEST way to watch and really get a feel for it is by sitting next to the fences armed with lunch, a radio, stop watch, whistle, score pads and multi coloured flags! Yup - fence judging!!! The more the merrier.
Don't worry if you have little or even no experience (I didn't before I got hooked on it). Everyone turns up first thing in the morning, is fed bacon rolls and coffee and is given a briefing, the kit is doled out and the old jokes are trotted out - along with polite laughter from those of us who've heard them before . . . . . . . many times. Then you pick up your packed lunch, organise it, yourself and your fence judging implements (or as David Merret would no doubt say, your fence judging impediments) into your car and navigate your way to the fence.
What more can you want - watch the pros and the aspiring, from the comfort of your car on the course, enjoy the radio commentary only available to the select few, have a great picnic, and hopefully not too much excitement by way of incident, and then get a chance to thrash round on your own horse by way of a thank you - or the chance to chill with a decent bottle of wine.
Seriously it takes an enormous number of people to put on an event like this and if there is anyone reading this who would be able to help out for a day, or even part of a day, fence judging or doing one of the other numerous jobs that need someone to do them, Ely Eventing Centre would be very very pleased to hear from you - in fact they'll be so grateful that they'll give you a schooling voucher for the course - or a bottle of wine - for your assistance.
To contact Ely Eventing Centre
This message for volunteers also holds for many of the other venues round the country - go on, give it a whirl!
Anyone who's been before knows that it's a cracking free day out, anyone who hasn't been - come along and have a look.
Of course the absolute BEST way to watch and really get a feel for it is by sitting next to the fences armed with lunch, a radio, stop watch, whistle, score pads and multi coloured flags! Yup - fence judging!!! The more the merrier.
What more can you want - watch the pros and the aspiring, from the comfort of your car on the course, enjoy the radio commentary only available to the select few, have a great picnic, and hopefully not too much excitement by way of incident, and then get a chance to thrash round on your own horse by way of a thank you - or the chance to chill with a decent bottle of wine.
Seriously it takes an enormous number of people to put on an event like this and if there is anyone reading this who would be able to help out for a day, or even part of a day, fence judging or doing one of the other numerous jobs that need someone to do them, Ely Eventing Centre would be very very pleased to hear from you - in fact they'll be so grateful that they'll give you a schooling voucher for the course - or a bottle of wine - for your assistance.
To contact Ely Eventing Centre
This message for volunteers also holds for many of the other venues round the country - go on, give it a whirl!