Social Events
Pre-Season Supper - booked for Saturday 10 March 2012 at The Angel, Gosport Road (A32), Nr Alton GU34 3NN - further details to follow but book the date! Organiser Dick King
MRC Social Evening incorporating The Annual General Meeting on Thursday 27 October 2011 at Warnford Village Hall.
This was a good evening with many more people there than last year. After the official business of the AGM and the presentation of awards (see here for 2010/11 Season Trophy Awards) Rosemary Lang talked about the work of the Mark Davies Injured Riders Fund. This was followed by an American supper and then Sharon Ede presented the Meon clothing available from Sew Equestrian, featuring our new logo. Members of the committee took part in a fashion show - pictures here Social evening oct 2011
MRC Fun/Social Ride over Bramdean Common - Saturday 23 April
2011
Rachel Walker organised a lovely ride for us and the sun shone. We set off at 10.30 and had a wonderful ride through a mix of countryside - bluebell woods, grassy enclosures, fields and almost always surrounded by amazing views. We ended up back at the common around 12.30 and enjoyed a picnic lunch in a shady spot while the horses munched their hay. We hope to organise another ride soon. Picture shows left to right: Sue (friend of Keri), Keri Barnjum, Roger Bradford, Penny Briggs, Rachel Walker, Chrissy Hughes, Ony Rogers and Julie Ayling.
Pre Season Supper
Saturday 12 March 2011 at The King's Restaurant, Kings
Corner,
Botley,
Southampton SO30 2HA
42 of us enjoyed a really good evening - there was an excellent atmosphere and a nice meal. Well done to Sharon Ede for organising it! Penny Briggs
Fun / Social Ride – Winchester Hill - Saturday 15 January 2011
(Pictures on Photo Gallery) Huge interest (16 riders) was shown initially in the first of our Meon
social rides but by the time we had had a date change and then a change of venue
we had dropped to 5: nevertheless we had a really lovely morning. Our group
was led by Barbara Wood on a beautifully behaved Seamus and we set off from her
house near Droxford at 10.30 on a very windy and rather overcast morning. Our
group was Sue Francis-Stukings on Geaves (her daughter's ex eventer), Chris
Tisson on Fig, Shirley Medgett on her young horse Harry and Sue's granddaughter
Hattie allowed me to ride her 13.3" Max (who I ride out on fairly regularly with
Sue).
We kicked off along the railway line and made our way to Winchester Hill.
The horses were incredibly good - Seamus, Geaves and Max definitely know about
the many possible gallops around this area but Barbara very sensibly decided to
play it cool and we spent quite a lot of time walking but of course also had
some faster times too. The views from the top of Winchester Hill are quite
specatular, even on a grey day, and the going was pretty good. We headed home
down the Hill and eventually made our way through Lower Peake and back to the
Railway Line which we had started out on. We got back to Barbara's about 1pm,
sorted out the horses and then sat down round Barbara's table to one of Janet
Irving's delicious cakes and Laura Macarthy (who was involved in setting up the
ride) dealt with coffees and teas.
We hope this will be the first of many rides so please watch out for the
next one. We will never go out in a large group - we can divide into
several lots if more than a few take part and perhaps into faster and slower
groups. I can vouch for a really thoughtful leader in Barbara who always took
the trouble to check what anyone wanted to do. Such fun and I hope you will
join us next time! Penny Briggs
