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Newsletter No 2: February/March 2019

Your Newsletter : Your Club : We always welcome new ideas!

Welcome to all our new Members! We are growing fast!

Want to see Previous Newsletters? All on our website! www.vybrant.co.za

Membership, general enquiries and show entries: Brittany Harrison [email protected]

Newsletter Editor and Events: Judy Vertue [email protected]

IMPORTANT STUFF ABOUT MEMBERSHIP, MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL , RANKINGS AND

ACCESS TO OUR WEBSITE.

We have had a number of ‘please help me’ calls during the course of membership renewals and rankings! We do understand that some members do not have computers but hope the summary of the process below will be useful.

1. You can view anything on our website from your computer/laptop or mobile phone

2. NEW MEMBERSHIP. As we are not yet mobile enabled for membership registration, you have to register from a computer/laptop to become a new Member so we can capture all your details on our system. Click on the Membership Icon and follow the prompts. You will then get an email with your Membership Number.

3. RENEWING MEMBERSHIP. The same thing applies. This has to be done from computer / laptop. You will need to LOG ON (see Icon on Home Page) with your membership number. If you have forgotten it, message Brittany on 084 743 4547 during office hours (08h00-16h00) If you have also forgotten your password, follow the procedure for getting a new password. You will then be asked to verify all your details (in case you have moved, changed your phone number etc).

4. RANKINGS FOR AWARDS. We need to access your results for the year in question to see whether you qualify for an award. We have to adhere to the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act, which means that we can only access your results in two ways: * If you make Vybrant your Primary Club. You have to do this yourself by going onto the DSA Website. * If you do not wish to make Vybrant your Primary Club, but still want to qualify for an award, you have to download your results from the DSA website yourself and send them to us in Excel spreadsheet format.

UPCOMING VYBRANT EVENTS 2019 Put these dates in your diary! Venue: Fourways Riding Centre Saturday 30 March Piaffe/Passage Clinic; Schoolmaster Experience; Rising Stars (see schedules on our website)

Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April Boot Camp. Prelim and Novice

Saturday 4 May Flying Changes Clinic and Schoolmaster Experience

Saturday 8 June Development Clinic . Test riding and feedback, coaches sit in, practice judging, and Rising Stars.

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August All Grades Dressage Show.

Saturday 12 October Development Clinic . Test riding and feedback, coaches sit in, practice judging, and Rising Stars

INSIDE THIS NEWSLETTER – We started this year with a BIG BANG! Awards Evening; Development Clinic; Launch of our Rising Stars Programme; our first Graded Show and a totally sold out 3 week clinic with Niall Quirk! READ ALL ABOUT IT ON FOLLOWING PAGES!

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Awards Evening : 2018 Rankings : 1 February at Inanda Country Base.

Horse Member Rank

RECREATIONAL ADULT

Cremants First Yolanda Geel 1

Madeira Kolonel Ceri von Ludwig 2

iPharma El Jay's Captain Bear Trudy Cumberland 3

RECREATIONAL JUNIOR

Voorslag Invictus (owned by Melissa Prinsloo)

Mila De Muelenaere 1

RECREATIONAL CHILDREN

Boesman Zara Pappalardo 1

ADULT PARA

Sultan Charmaine Watts 1

ADULT PRELIMINARY

Adela's Juwel Gersdorf Maxine de Villiers 1

Sierra Nevada Lauren Koen 2

Indiana Breeze (owned by Lori Pinick)

Patrick Brown 3

ADULT NOVICE Berghof Eragon Stafford Robinson 1

Burberry Marisa Cetinich 2

Compton House Flutterby Eleni Constas 3

ADULT ELEMENTARY

Absolutely Fabulous SC Suzanne Horne 1

Neapolitano Theodora Siobhan Records 2

Callaho Lacoste Adriaan Van Wyk 3

ADULT ELEMEN/MEDIUM

Raindancer Siobhan Records 1

H & R Dressage's Compton House Status Quo II

Robyn Andrews 2

Askari SC Suzanne Horne 3

ADULT MEDIUM

Faris of Millford Sarah Perkin 1

Arco 360 Esclavo FM Candice Hobday 2

Manor D'or Denozo (owned by Ronelle Gilbert)

Robyn Andrews 3

ADULT ADVANCED

Wow's Yellowood Patrick Brown 1

Manor D'or Denozo (owned by Ronelle Gilbert) Robyn Andrews

2

Rathmor Caprice Siobhan Records 3

ADULT SMALL TOUR

Dream of Dancier Tamara Hasselberg 1

Frequens Tamara Hasselberg 2

Flaneur Adriaan Van Wyk 3

Very many to you all !

Special Awards

Wendy Moller One of our Para Riders, who has represented South Africa many times in Dressage, has now turned her skills to REINING and competed at the World Para Reining Championships in France in 2018 and gained an INDIVIDUAL SILVER MEDAL!

Marisa Cetinich & Burberry For the highest percentage score at the SA Dressage Championships 2018. This was a score of 78.167% achieved in the Adult Novice Freestyle.

Ronelle Gilbert .

Judy Vertue, Lilian Möller, Gill Taylor Special awards to this Working Group in recognition of their outstanding work in the massive task of creating the new 2019 Adult and Junior Dressage Tests.

Ian van Schalkwyk Special award for Show Jumper successfully competing in dressage (ranked 4th in the Medium grade).

Patrick Brown Special Award for Eventer, successfully competing in FEI Small Tour

“People rarely succeed

unless they have fun in

what they are doing”

Dale Carnegie

Honorary Life Membership of Vybrant Dressage Club awarded to Ronelle Gilbert for hosting the very first Africa Dressage Forum at Manor D’or Exclusive Equine Management

Continued on next page


ADULT SMALL TOUR

Dream of Dancier Tamara Hasselberg 1

Frequens Tamara Hasselberg 2


ADULT MEDIUM TOUR

Caballero Gerti Kusseler 1

Ulivia STV Anthea Michaletos 2


ADULT BIG TOUR

Hartenberg Attack Adriaan Van Wyk 1

Rivervale's Ultimo Beryl Johnston 2

Equiprovet's Zidane Trudy Cumberland 3

JUNIOR NOVICE

Kop Jansen Gladiator Helene Van Der Merwe 1

Dance A Zig Emma Van Schie 2

Advance's Berghof Fahrenheit Rebecca Tait 3

JUNIOR ELEMENTARY

Winslow Calvados Helene Van Der Merwe 1

Amaro Erin Teare 2

JUNIOR ADVANCED

Chabal's Dimaggio Mila De Muelenaere 1

JUNIOR SMALL TOUR

Royal Fleur Amory Smith 1

Float On owned by Lisa Agbenafa Rebecca Tait

1

Chabal's Dimaggio Mila De Muelenaere 3

PONY RIDER PRELIMINARY

KEC Mittens Zara Laird 1

PONY RIDER NOVICE

Burgerstrots Havanna Leandry Smith 1

Edel Gamma Marike Pauw 2

PONY RIDER MEDIUM

Sawannah Janina Rexrodt 1

CHILDRENS NOVICE

Rosalie Janina Rexrodt 1

Congratulations to the

following Members on their

Judges Promotion

NATIONAL

Grant Store (Northern Cape) To National A Panel

Justin O'Reilly (Gauteng) To National B Panel

Moya Truter (Eastern Cape) To National B Panel

Antoinette Stapelberg (Gauteng) To National Candidate Panel

PROVINCIAL

Gill Taylor (Gauteng) To Provincial A Panel

Elizabeth Hickman (Gauteng) To Provincial B Panel

Wendy Moller (Gauteng) To Provincial D Panel

LEARNER

Helle Wagner (Mpumalanga) To Learner Panel

Celia Johnson (Gauteng) To Learner Panel

Sue Horne outlined the goals for Vybrant Dressage Club for 2019 and showed some innovative work currently being done on the Vybrant website where members could access specific and detailed information on their achievements, and overall percentages of categories of members could be seen graphically (great work in progress).

Judy Vertue outlined the philosophies behind the new 2019 Dressage Tests.

ALTOGETHER A GREAT EVENING WAS HAD BY ALL!

DEVELOPMENT CLINIC

Our first event at Fourways Riding Centre where the wonderful new fibre surface in the Milton Arena rode beautifully. FEI Judge Suzanne Horne judged various levels of tests and immediately afterwards gave feedback to the rider and the coach.

Sean Herron & Court Marshall Claudia Baltensperger & Seven

Lynn Bremner & Lunox

The sun shone, the sky was blue, the grass was freshly mown –

an inspiring and wonderful setting at Penny van Asche’s

beautiful property, Lonely Oak, for

Vybrant Dressage Club’s first

Rising Stars Clinic

Vybrant Dressage Club is delighted to be able to take over this programme run initially so successfully by Kate Laird, Caroline Potts and Gill Taylor in 2017, as this is in line with one of our goals of developing child riders. In pursuit of this

goal, membership of Vybrant Dressage Club for children & juniors is free.

In an introductory talk to parents, coaches and children, Clinic Leader Gill Taylor said “ It is our vision to assist in the creation and production of confident, proficient child riders who can easily make the transition to a variety of disciplines, by having had this opportunity to learn the fundamental basics in a fun and non-stressful environment.”


Three Levels of competition are offered: Level 1 - Lead Rein; Level 2 – Off Lead Rein, Walk and Trot; Level 3, Off Lead Rein – Walk, Trot and Canter. Every competitor received a special rosette, sponsored goody bags and special Rising Stars T Shirts were on sale .

T-shirt model Taya Andrews

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors

who made this event so special

Penny van Asche, Lonely Oak

Special thanks to

demo rider, Tania de Meulenaere and Lily

the Pink

Being on page 24 of the Midrand Reporter was great BUT GUESS WHAT ? We featured on the FRONT PAGE AS WELL!

Level 1 Winner Chloe Mohr & Mr Bean

Level 2 Winner Taya Andrews & Lucy Locket

Level 3 Winner Zara Laird & Mittens

See next page for the continuing story of a very special dream…….


Our first Graded Show at Fourways Riding

Centre

Great day, great entries, great atmosphere! Riders had access to ‘instant’ results on three big screens as the class progressed. Several riders swept the board with multiple Firsts!

Robyn Andrews and H & R Dressage’s

Compton House Status Quo II beautifully turned out in Vybrant Blue!

Lots of positive comments were received on how well the new 2019 tests rode.

Many thanks to Symbiosis for sponsoring beautiful rosettes.

Beautiful rosettes kindly sponsored by

Catherine Berning up from KZN gained five Firsts on her Kuda Insurance sponsored horses, the Medium 1 with Ciroc R, Elementary/Medium 1 and 2 with Compton House Quantico and Elementary 1 and 2 with Midas Touch Bravado Patrick Brown won the Prix St Georges on ‘Woody’; Novice 1 & 2 on Indiana Breeze and Prelim 2 on Wows Sir Nicholas. Lyn Bremner won the Advanced 1 on Bon Esprit and tie 1st with Patrick in Prelim 2 on Herbachs Lunox.

Four year old McDreamy, a star in the making, was able to compete at his first show,

the Rising Stars Clinic on 23 February 2019.

The story of McDreamy was beautifully captured by Midrand Reporter, Andrei van Wyk. “The sheer trauma of being hit by a train, as well as surviving to tell the tale and fighting through the bone-chilling aftermath, is a thought that many could not imagine.” This happened when McDreamy was 14 months old. He was fortunately found by Animals in Distress and after 4 months of treatment was moved to Penny van Asche’s yard in Glenferness and she became his primary carer.

Last year, he was ready to be ridden by Penny and eventually child rider, Kaitlyn Coleman, was ready to take over the reins under the watchful eye of coach, Fiona Hoekstra. Says Fiona “ he’s a very enthusiastic pony and has a survivor instinct which stems from his background. He’s also very independent and doing super well in his training”.

We look forward eagerly to further news of his progress!

Carl von Ludwig with Ultimate C and Niall Quirk

Niall Quirk March Clinic

3 weeks of lessons all sold out! Rave reviews: ‘phenomenal’, ‘amazing’, ‘I learnt so much’

THANK YOU SO MUCH Niall for your continuing inspiration, energy and contribution to dressage in South Africa. Thank you to Arina Petit for hosting Niall’s clinic at her beautiful yard in Bridle Park.