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Please can we remind all members that if you bring your dogs to WDRC events, they must be restrained on a lead at all times; alternatively, please ensure that they are securely shut in your vehicle (be it car, trailer or lorry!) Just a note to remind everyone that there is no fresh water supply available at the Club Field, therefore anyone attending events is advised to bring their own water (& buckets) with them If you wish to lunge your horse at an event, please speak to the organiser first. They will let you know where is the most appropriate place – bear in mind that at some events you may not be able to lunge, so it may be worth phoning to check first. Please don’t just start lunging wherever you think looks a likely spot – the middle of a busy warm-up area is not appropriate, nor are some of the other strange locations which people have tried to use recently! If you are planning to enter on the day, it would be hugely appreciated if you could try to bring the correct money with you. Organisers do bring a float with assorted change, but when everyone appears with £20 notes, it doesn’t take long for that change to disappear! I know it’s a pain lugging the coins along with you – but I suppose the other alternative could be that all entry fees go up to a round £10 per class, just to make life easier! Seriously though, if you could all appear rattling your piggy banks when you make late entries, it would be a great help…

All WDRC members MUST wear their badges to our Open Events – also to many Club events which are open to both Members and Member’s Children. This replaces the need for the white arm bands and will help alleviate anyone attempting to pass as one of our members at shows, as badges are ONLY given out to subscribers. Please can we ask members not to be tempted to lend their badge to anyone else at events Any member who has lost their badge will need to contact me (Membership Secretary) for a replacement (cost £2) Thank you, Vanessa Whippey



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After many years, our BHS claim for two new bridleways over Upton Heath have just had orders made by County Council, from Beacon Road, BR16, South to the old railway line, now BR43 (an earlier BHS claim). The other one runs from the line South-East to join Pony Drive which leads on to Roman Road BR1. If no objections are made by 28th May, these should soon be opened and waymarked. Tara Quinn has submitted a claim for a BR from the gate at the West end of Arrowsmith Road up to the main BR track by the tip. She tells me that many of you have had trouble riding through gates onto Canford Heath, because long-horned cattle graze the heath and gather by the gates – please contact Gerry Clarke (c/o Urban Heath Partnership) on 01202 534687 if you have problems. I have moved to Southbourne and now only look after East Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole areas Jean Heaton, 01202 419096

To Mary-Anne Hart, riding Lorna Davis’ Donna Charisma, who came 12th in the Elementary Restricted class at the Winter Dressage Championships in April And to Sarah Hislam, who has now qualified as a BHS-recognised Side-Saddle instructor.