Princethorpians placed at Inter-Schools’ Two Day Equestrian Event

Princethorpe College’s senior riding team picked up second place in the Open class at the fifth Princethorpe-Kingsley Inter-Schools’ Two Day Event held at Offchurch Bury over the weekend of 24 & 25 May, attracting just under two hundred riders from all over the country.

Organised in conjunction with Stoneleigh Riding Club and sponsored by Limemere UK, the competition comprised dressage and show jumping on the Saturday and roads & tracks, steeplechase and cross-country on the Sunday.

Despite driving rain and difficult conditions on the Sunday, seniors Evie Hodgkin, Pippa Beets and Callum Henn put in an extremely good cross country performance giving them the runners up title, with Cokethorpe School taking the senior competition cup home to Witney in Oxfordshire.

Princethorpe’s Callum Henn has recently been picked to represent Great Britain in the Tetrathlon. Callum was one of four selected from the top fifty ranked senior tetrathletes in the UK, during a recent training course held at Millfield School.

Hannah Logue from Year 9 also took 8th place in the Novice competition. Other Princethorpians riding were Hayley Benton, Katherine Brett, Emma Fletcher, Tom Fletcher, Hannah Pugh & Tom Wyatt.

Image shows Princethorpe runners up Pippa Beets (l) and Evie Hodgkin receiving their rosettes from sponsor Phil Meaking of Limemere UK. (Third team member, Calum Henn is not pictured).

Click here to download the results from Offchurch.

To make an e-mail enquiry about the Princethorpe-Kingsley equestrian events please contact Alex Darkes.

Link to the Stoneleigh Riding Club website.

Watch this space – provisional Crackley Hall inter-schools hunter trials at Ettington on Sunday 12 October 2008 – schedule available soon.