Central are going back to Long Drove Dressage Centre for another of our popular Applied Dressage TREC training sessions on 1st August! Come and join us to improve your PTV and MA skills with the help of Tara Osborn and Sarah Wynn.
Online entry form [please note that the online entry form does not take payment, please click on Store above to pay via our online shop]
Our ace scorer Alice has been working like a trojan since the riders started crossing the finish lines at Park Farm and is delighted to have released provisional scores less than 4 hours after the last pair finished the POR! Please find provisional phase results below.
Level 1 POR provisional scores MA provisional scores PTV provisional scores
Level 2 POR provisional scores MA provisional scores PTV provisional scores
Please send any queries to parkfarm@trecgroup.co.uk giving full details of the rider(s), phase and query.
The preliminary results from our first Grassroutes competition on 20 June 2021 are now available on our Results page. Please raise any queries on these by Thursday 1 July 2021.
The start times and competitor information for Saturday’s competition are now available here and on the Calendar page. Please email parkfarm@trecgroup.co.uk with any queries.
Please remember that we love to see lots of volunteers at our events too – if you or anyone you know is able to help that would be great! Please complete a Helper Form so that we have the information we need to communicate with you about your role (and for Covid regulations).
Also available is a list of who we think is corralling on Friday and Saturday. Please have a look at it and let us know (via parkfarm@trecgroup.co.uk) if the nights listed against your name are wrong, so that we can let the venue owner know how many horses will be on site each night.
The schedule for the first competition in the Park Farm GrassRoutes series on sunday 20th June is now available on our Calendar page. Please don’t send in your entry before the opening date (20th May) as it will NOT be accepted early. The online shop will be set up to accept entry fees from that date also.
Any offers of help will be gratefully received, please complete this Jotform or email Sarah Vaughan via committee@trecgroup.co.uk if you are able to lend a hand for part or all of the day (or the day before with course building).
On 10th April 2011 an intrepid band of hardy TRECcies gathered at Princethorpe in Warwickshire to do some unmounted POR training followed by an evening meal and a talk from our inaugural Chair, Anna Lea. Central TREC Group was born!
Since that day we have run over 30 summer competitions, including at least one event at Park Farm every year, and 35 arena competitions. We created the Club Challenge for the TREC GB Championships and run training and social events for our members on a range of topics and in venues ranging from pubs to village halls to tents in fields! The summer and winter leagues are hotly contested and we award Milestones to mark the achievements of our members and their horses.
We are hoping to celebrate this milestone for the club as the year progresses, so watch this space for details!
Spring is starting to spring and, thanks to the fabulous efforts made in rolling out Covid-19 vaccines, there is a light at the end of the lockdown tunnel at long last, so your hard working and enthusiastic committee have been putting some tentative plans together.
Arena TREC season – our second arena TREC of the 2020-21 season (slightly confusingly named ‘Moulton 6’, but that is a sign of the craziness of the last year!) ran on 11th April at Moulton College near Northampton. The day was great fun, despite having the full gamut of weather from bright sunshine to snow!, though lots of people found their rules knowledge and general TREC skills were a bit rusty…
Park Farm GrassRoutes Series – we are looking to run a series of level 1 competitions from our longest-standing CTG venue (we’ve been there for every one of our 10 years as a club so far!)
We are also looking to be involved with the Horses To Health Relay, which is running in our area 8th-21st August. Plans are still in developments, watch this space for details as they become available.
We would like to run training for our members and may look to do this online in order to reduce travelling, particularly for unmounted training. If you are interested in doing online judges’ training before the Park Farm dates please email central@trecgroup.co.uk.
Please do also contact us via central@trecgroup.co.uk if you have any suggestions or requests for venues / events / training sessions / etc that you would like to take part in or help with in 2021. And remember – horses need to be vaccinated against equine flu and humans should be vaccinated against Covid-19 (when you get the chance to get yours!)
The CTG committee has been working away behind the scenes during lockdown, and we are pleased to announce that we now have an online shop! We are now able to offer membership, club clothing, equipment and entry to our events directly from this website. Payments will be processed via PayPal, though payments can be made by credit or debit card without setting up a PayPal account if you prefer not to.
Some of the products will appear to be free on the main store page, though we are afraid to say that once you select your options (which classes you wish to enter, for example, or which piece of clothing you would like to order) the price will change to reflect that.
We hope that this will be a convenient way for our members and other interested riders to enter our events, and it should also reduce the admin burden for our hard-working Entries Secretaries and Treasurer. We have also reviewed our financial systems and have decided to introduce an admin surcharge for cheque payments. Any payment made by cheque will be increased by £2.50, to reflect the additional time and effort required to prepare cheques for the bank and pay them in. If this causes a problem please contact us on central@trecgroup.co.uk (or email the Treasurer directly via helen.martin@trecgroup.co.uk).