AGM

Yes it's coming to that time of year again!

The club's AGM is to be held in The Viaduct Inn on Thursday, November 1st at 8.30pm.

If anyone is interested in joining the committee for the coming year or would like to find out more about it, please contact a current committee member.

As always, memberships for 2008 will be taken from this evening onwards, the exact fee will be given on the night and the new secretary will take membership cards along with cheques or cash.

Anyone considering changing their grade should start discussing this with their instructor now! Such changes have to be signed for and brought to the Regional Committee to be sanctioned.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Dressage Judges Training

South Munster Dressage invite all those who are interested to an evening with Dermot Cannon on Saturday October 20th, 7.30pm, price €10.00 in Glen Aire EC, Lavally, Mallow, Co.Cork.
All those interested contact Naomi Donoghue 086 068 1998

South Munster Dressage Autumn League

Venue: Glen Aire EC, Mallow.

Dates: 14th October '07, 28th October '07 and 11th November, 2007

Tests: Preliminary BD 7
Preliminary BD 18
Novice BD 24
Novice BD 25
Elementary 44
Elementary 50
Medium 63

Entry Fees (prepaid only): DI members €12 per class, Non DI members €17 per class

Sec: Kay O'Sullivan tel: 086-2388975

Entries: Tuesday before each show.

Times: Friday 7-9pm

Earlswell Annual Social

The club is holding its annual social night out on Saturday October 6th in the Kilumney Inn at 8.30pm.

Tickets are €38.00 per person. This includes dinner, a glass of wine and followed by music. Partners are welcome.

Names must be put on the board in Castlewhite or given to Fiona O'Driscoll ASAP.

Money must be given to Fiona or Brian by Saturday 29th September.

Knocknamanna

The club would like to extend its thanks to Sheila Corrigan (facility provider) and Knocknamanna riding club for their ODE held recently. Again it was well attended by club members, and provided further experience to those attending the Nationals.

Babies Galore!!!!!

Congratulations to all club members past and present who have, recently, become proud parents to future club members: Jo O'Callaghan, Martin and Deirdre Falvey and Sharon McCarthy all of whom had baby girls. Here's to girl power!!

Regional Festival Club Results

Congratualtions to all those who partook in the recent Regional Festival. May we extend a very big thank you to the organisers of the event, a great day was had by all those in attendance.

Advanced Primary Dressage - 2nd Susan O'Regan on Zanka

Prix Caprilli - 3rd Mags O'Shea on CW Ebony

Showing Over 16 Hands - 6th Fiona O'Driscoll and Viaduct Lad

Showing up to 15.3 Hh - Mags O'Shea and CW Ebony

Advance Primary Showjumping - 1st Aoife Twohig on Cream Prince, 4th Susan O'Regan on Zanka and 6th Aoife Twohig on Rogue Trader

Mini X-Country - 1st Susan O'Regan and Zanka, 2nd Aine Griffin and Forest Berry and 5th Caroline Cremin and Northern Star.

X-Country Pairs - 1st Brain O'Dwyer (Cream Prince) & Jennifer O'Donovan (CW Ebony)
2nd Kay Fitton (Tiger Lilly) & Maria Greenway (Meg)

Congratulations to you all.

Earl's Well One Day Event

It would seem, from the reaction of those who competed, that this years ODE was a great success. This is primarily due to the hard work of members leading up to the event and on the day itself. A very big thank you is extended to all those who were involved and helped out.

The annual event was well attended with many travelling a great distance. Again we would like to say a special thank you to the Duggan family for facilitating us in this endeavour and for the amount of work that they put into making the course. Their expertise, help and advice proved invaluable to us again this year.

A big thank you is also extended to the Killeady hunt for use of their equipment essential to the operation. The club would also, yet again, like to say a very big thank you to le chef du jour, Mick O'Regan and his assistant Sean for providing such a fantastic BBQ on the day!

Congratulations to all club members who also competed on the day.

Please note that a number of photos were taken on the day and have been published on the website (click the link). If anyone else has photos forward them to Johanna and they too will be added.

The ODE Results are as follows:

OPEN:
1st James McCullough - Inlodge - Shannonside

ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE:
1st Dane Curtis - Expresso - Knocknamanna
2nd Jan Musgrave - By Golly Barnaby- West Cork
3rd Triona Fitzpatrick - Kessie - Hillcrest
4th Jake Murphy - Spencer - Hillcrest
5th Sarah Lang - Kingdom Warrior - Thomastown

INTERMEDIATE:
1st Martina Sheehan - Hector -Duhallow
2nd Polly Hogart - Molly - Unicorn
3rd Ita Walsh - Billy - Duhallow
4th William Twomey - Kerry - Knocknamanna
5th Joanne Maher - Rineen Spirit - Earlswell
6th Mark Hodman - Unknown Soldier - Woodstock
7th Breda Costigan - Levi - Clonmel
8th Carol Quish - Elsa Minor - Hillcrest
9th Fiona O'Driscoll - Viaduct Lad - Earlswell
10th Joan Fox - Rusty - Clonmel

GREEN HORSE:
1st Nicola Cassidy - Lucky Windsor - Clonmel
2nd Catherine O'Brien - Off by Heart - Clonmel
3rd Brigid - Delilah - Unicorn

ADVANCED PRIMARY:
1st Sharon Dempsey - Parkway Magic - Lismore
2nd Susan O'Regan - Zanka - Earlswell
3rd Emer McCArthy - Cappe Silver Belle - Highland Lodge
4th Sarah O'Sullivan - Patchwork Puzzle - Highland Lodge
5th Caroline Cremin - Northern Star - Earlswell
6th Nuala Hammond-Hughes - Harry Bailey - Earlswell
7th Martin Dekkers - Molly - Glengarrif
8th Sylvia Curtis - El Senor - Knocknamanna
9th Michelle Marshall - Wilson - Duhallow
10th Martin Dekkers - Moon Dance - Glengarrif

Once again Congratulations and Thanks to all!!!! Here's to 2008! (May the weather be as good)

Kealkill

Congratulations to those who flew the club flag at Kealkill in Bantry recently; especially to Mags Buckley and Musket who came 3rd in the Intermediate Dressage.

Mylane

A big thank you to Ken for hosting our recent fun ride out. Those in attendance enjoyed a trek through the woods followed jump cross training. A special thanks also goes to those who helped build the jumps. Another great night was had.

Skevanish One Day Event

Skevanish ODE was well attended by all clubs and overall was a huge success. Earlswell would like to say a very big thank you to all involved in the running of the event. A great day was had by all those who attended. Congratulations to members who were placed on the day. In the Advanced Primary class 3rd place went to Susan O'Regan on Zanka, 4th place to Aine Griffin on Forrest Berry and 7th place to Margie Hadden on Juno. Here's to next year!!!