Thank you

To all our brilliant volunteers

who came in

over Christmas and New Year

to feed the horses

and clean out the corrals

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Diary Dates

February - 5 week 45 minute Aerobics course with Sheena

Sunday 18th April - Dressage Competition

Saturday 15th May - Barn Dance with Hank Muldoon & the Hangovers

Sunday 17th October - Dressage Competition

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Once again Michael D Joyce Associates generously donated their company's Christmas Card money to our charity. Their £150 donation will help us buy haylage for the ponies.

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Christmas Ride

Thank you to riders at Beacon Hill Farm at Woolley who enjoyed a Christmas Ride around Woolley Village. Debbie and friends collected £77.21 for our charity.

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A group of riders from Crowthers Feeds at Walton completed a Fun Fancy Dress Sponsored Ride on October 31st and raised money for Wakefield RDA. We are very grateful to Zoe, Emma, Vicky, Shannon, Rhiann and Sophie and their horses; and James and his dad on foot. They all raised a fantastic £436.57 for our charity.

Thank you to everyone around Walton and Crofton who donated money to help us.

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Thank you to our sponsor who kindly donated a very much needed fridge in return for this small advert - DirectTVs.co.uk one of the Uks largest online TV stores. If you are looking for a LCD TV, Plasma TV, LED TV, LG TV, Samsung TV, Sony TV you can find some great deals.

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The Lister Family from Woolley contacted Wakefield RDA earlier in the year to ask if they could fundraise for us since we were a local charity, of course we said Yes Please!! and they walked the 80 miles Dales Way during their summer holiday and asked their friends to sponsor them. At the time of the walk the weather was terrible with bad rain, and mum Jane told me they would have given up had it not been for their friends back home who had promised sponsor money and the family really wanted to help our riders. The Lister family raised an amazing £770 and with gift aid should come to around £900!!

Wakefield RDA would like to thank The Listers for their kindness and determination to finish the walk in the horrible weather.

Mr & Mrs Lister, Olivia, Philippa and Sebastian

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RDA Dressage

Thank you to everyone who attended our dressage competition yesterday. Your entry fees will help towards our groups running costs.

There were some lovely horses and nice riding - everyone looked really smart, and unfortunately a few soggy people when the rain came down.

Thank you to our brilliant volunteers who helped the day run smoothly, also to our judges Carol and Pat for giving your time free of charge and to Liz at Equine Images for taking the photographs.

Here are the results:-

Intro A

1st Leanne Baines and Holdsworth Sapphire 73.48%

2nd Sara Moorby and Sam 61.74%

3rd Sue Scholey and Ben 60.87% (col.64)

4th Chris Rush and Amber 60.87% (col.58)

5th Lisa Emerson and Hubbly Bubbley 60% (col.62)

6th Samantha Cammack and Todleyhall Issac 60% (col.60)

Beginners Freestyle

=1st Ellie Edmondson and Whiteways Dusty Knight 63.5%

=1st Paige Latham and Valentine 63.5%

3rd Sue Scholey and Ben 63%

4th Heather Woodhead and Lochlands Military Flute 62.5%

Prelim 1

1st Susan Collier and Minnesota 66.84%

2nd Samantha Cammack and Todleyhall Issac 64.21%

3rd Rita Pitman and Dylan 62.11%

=4th Sheena Woodard and Holdsworth Sapphire 60.53%

=4th Leanne Baines and Amber 60.53%

6th Laura Olsen and Ballyards 58.42%

Prelim 13

1st Laura Olsen and Ballyards 64.17%

2nd Joanne Gill and Dylan 62.91%

3rd Ella Frisby and Duke of York 62.5%

4th Joanne Gill and Minnesota 62.08%

5th Zoe Rothwell and Bannerfarm Shamrock 58.33%

6th Steph Lang and Lou-Lou 54.17%

Freestyle

1st Zoe Rothwell and Bannerfarm Shamrock 55.5%

Congratulations to all the freestyle competitors, your music and tests were a pleasure to watch and everyone left with a rosette.

View your photographs at www.equine-images.co.uk

Look out for our next dressage competition around April 2010

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Penny and Ben Compete at Manor Grange Show Centre

Penny and Ben enjoyed a charity competition yesterday. The Riverside RDA group at Bingley held an unaffiliated dressage event to raise funds for their group.

Riders Oliver, Leanne and Sue all won rosettes and had a lovely day out.