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Time spent with a Cleveland Bay is always a privilege
Welcome to our website. We hope you will enjoy exploring the various sections, which range from a comprehensive description of the Cleveland Bay horse to feature articles in Cleveland World. We have around 90 pages and hundreds of photographs but are always pleased to receive new material for publication.
A part bred foal from Jean Morgan's crop stretching its legs! Dont forget to send in your foaling announcments by the Contact Us Function - and the lovely pictures can be seen on the right ---->
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NEWS FLASH - Grafton Show Coming up - Cleveland Bay classes being specially put on - Please see EVENTS page for more information and link to shedule. PLEASE support this show, its our Thame replacement this year.
Introducing - Mercia Orbit a Partbred competition Mare
To say we are proud of her is an understatement! She is a part-bred ( no 4028), by Saul Oberon out of a tb show jumper mare (Vesty) and will be 16 on the 3rd July this year. She doesn't show her age though and still continues to give us the run around as if she were 3! An amazingly kind and sensitive soul who absolutely trys her heart out for you. My other half (Dave) has had her for 10 years now and with him she has mainly done affiliated show jumping with double clears up to 1.05 last year. She loves it and was smashing as she was incredibly careful and would practically never touch a pole (I think about 12 faults over her career!). She pretty much stopped showjumping a couple of years ago with just a few outings since as she had lameness niggles we struggled to get to the bottom of. Turns out that slight but long term medial lateral imbalance caused collateral ligament damage. Our excellent farrier couldn't keep her sound in shoes so we took them off. Lots of ups and downs along the way and we are at last there! A diet that balances the minerals she recieves to our grazing which allows her to grow an excellent quality hoof and leaving her to wear the balance perfectly seems to have done the trick and she is off again!!
We spent last year doing a little showing with her and a few dressage outings and are looking forward to continuing the same this year. If you were at Folds farm last year you might have noticed her showing her contempt for being lead around (the shame!) in the mare class. Fortunately she redeemed herself by loving the ridden (2nd) and winning the BTO sash and prize. At home she mainly hacks for miles around Cirencester Park (popping the odd log!) which she completely loves, with lessons every few weeks. This year we plan on getting the other half of her BD area qualification at prelim and making the step up to novice. She is really loving the work, though canter changes through trot annoy her, being a show jumper she would much rather use her flying changes and simply thinks the silly human on her back has made a mistake! We are particularly looking forward to the Three Counties where we have her entered for the in-hand CB class. We think she is utterly one in a million, our beautiful kind girl.
Note from Webmaster Jenny : Thank you Anna for telling us all about your fab mare - Other stories gratefully recieved.
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This year's Southern Cleveland Bay Club Annual General Meeting was held on Sunday 29th April in Great Milton. The committee had a quick meeting before, followed by the main content of the day in an AGM. Minutes will be available online incase you couldn't attend. Certainly a lot of ideas have been offered up so please watch this website for any news. ITEMS FOR THE HANDBOOK and WEBSITE greatfully recieved, stories, photos or any Cleveland Results can be sent to Jo Strange or Webmaster Jenny Dawson (jennydworc@hotmail.co.uk)
We are also looking for a new witty 'Strap Line' for new merchandise, IDEAS PLEASE!!!
If you have any other queries, please contact our Secretary, Rona Parry, on 07860 953 726 (anytime) or 01883 348285 (evenings only).
2012 KGV SHOW
The Cleveland Bay Horse Society King George V Competition and Show is to be held on 6th May. The venue is once again the Equine Unit at Lincoln University's Riseholme Park (postcode for sat navs is LN2 2LG). The programme will commence at 11.15 and includes classes for Yearlings, Youngstock and Licenced Stallions before the KGV Competiton for Premium Stallions. In the afternoon there are further classes for Part bred in hand and Ridden pure and part breds. Click here to download the Schedule.
Entries, by post or email to the Society, close on 22nd April. Late entries will be accepted for an enhanced fee. Click here to download the Entry and Stable forms.
The original downloads as supplied to this website have now been updated and postcode errors corrected. The current updated schedule and entry/stable form downloads replaced the originals on Monday 16th April. If you downloaded the earlier versions please check the new ones.
2012 SCBC SHOW
The date has now been confirmed for this year's Southern Cleveland Bay Club Show which will be held on Sunday 22nd July. New for 2012, some classes will be qualifiers for Southwest Ponies Association Rare Breed classes. Once again, the Club event will form part of the Folds Farm Show. This proven format will ensure a good turnout and a full programme. As an added attraction this year there will be a Companion Dog Show alongside the equine classes. Folds Farm is the home of our Chairman, Sue Cutts and is near Fordingbridge in Hampshire. We shall have the schedule and entry forms available as downloads from this website in the near future.
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