Second spot for Alice as team shines in stiff test (From Tewkesbury Admag)

Second spot for Alice as team shines in stiff test

ALICE Collins-Youngs of Badsey, riding Charlie's Rainbow, was placed second in the British Riding Clubs Novice One-Day Event Championship held at Offchurch Bury.

The team of four from Crop-thorne and Evesham Vale Riding Club, consisting of Alice, Helen Goodwin on Cottage Crystal and Anna Millington on One Man's Legacy, both of Evesham, and Margaret Boyd, riding Georgie Lady, from Defford) competed in the dressage and show jumping phases on Saturday.

The next day they went on to complete the roads and tracks and steeple chase followed by the cross-country jumping phase.

Forty-four teams of four from all over the country took part in the two-day test that was made more difficult for horses and riders by the intense heat and humidity.

At the end of two exciting days, Alice, with a score of 26 penalty points, just missed out on first place by being seven seconds too fast on the final phase.

Helen finished on her dressage score of 37 and was placed tenth individually. The team, meanwhile, finished in seventh place behind winners Mid Somerset.

Alice will be representing the club again in the Open Dressage at next month's British Riding Clubs National Championships at Lincoln where the club will also be fielding junior teams in the Show Jumping, Equitation Jumping and Riding Tests.