West Surrey Riding Club
an affiliated Area 11 British Riding Club

Welcome to the West Surrey Riding Club website. WSRC are affiliated to  the  British Riding Club, based in Area 11, a very active area, which organise many team events. We are a small friendly club in the Surrey Hills conservation area between Guildford and Cranleigh and we would love to invite you to look around our website and if you are not already a member, we hope this might encourage you to join us! 

Our primary objective as a club is to help and encourage our members in all aspects of horsey life – from the increasingly popular Trec to interactive lecture demonstrations, instruction and team competitions. The emphasis we try to maintain in the club is to make owning and training your horse as enjoyable and sociable as possible while still being informative and safe. We know that the majority of our riders are keen to improve their skills and do the very best for their horses so all the events we organise are aimed to promote these things.

We would also welcome any non members to come along to watch some of our events/training sessions so you can see if what we have to offer appeals to you. We are very lucky to have some fantastically generous local land owners who allow us to use their facilities and land and without their support we would not be able to run such a wide range of events – so a big THANK YOU to them on behalf of all the club members.

WSRC Latest News

WSRC Mini XC Training Day with Johanna - Saturday 3rd August
Vikki organised a fantastic training opportunity for our grass roots members to enjoy a day training over 1'6"-1'9" XC jumps. This clinic allowed nervous jumpers and young horses to increase their confidence and have a go jumping XC jumps in a fun, friendly and encouraging atmosphere. 

Clinics like this are what our club are about, helping members achieve something they wouldn't want to do on their own. Feedback from all of our riders was wonderful and WSRC look forward to organising future events like this. 

​A big thank you to Johanna for her fantastic and encouraging instruction. Judith who attended this training said "Jo was just right with encouragement and advice. I think everyone ticked some boxes today. My two cohorts were brilliant and we all did every obstacle". Well done every one involved! 

Thank you to Chris for the fabulous photographs of the day.
Hickstead Team Show Jumping competition - Sunday 28th July 2019
​A huge congratulations to our amazing show jumping team of Giselle, Karen and Louise for riding so beautifully for WSRC at Hickstead. Giselle had a great 85cm round finishing on 4, followed by Karen jumping an incredible 95cm clear round followed by Louise and her horse Simon jumping a confident round with 2 rolled poles, finishing the team on 12.

We are extremely proud of our WSRC riders and their beautiful horses and we are so chuffed to have them ride for our club.  They all did incredibly well and it was fantastic to see so many of our club members turn up to support our team and of course our very generous club photographer Chris recorded some fantastic shots that can be seen below.

A big well done team and thank you for choosing to represent WSRC!
Karen Stone on Carlos III riding a perfect clear round in the 95cm Hickstead team Show Jumping for WSRC.
E-Riders Riding Club Dressage Competition - July 2019
RIding CLubs can now compete in Dressage from home filming their tests and sending them into 'E-Riders' to be marked. We are excited to announce we are currently on the leader board with 20points and in 4th place. 

A massive well done and thank you to Charlotte Willis and her horse Rolo for representing WSRC in the Novice and placing 2nd in the Novice with a great score of 67.32%. Another congratulations goes to our lovely Vikki and her little horse Beauty who also came 2nd in their Walk and Trot test with a score of 68.04%. This is a fantastic effort ladies, you have done our club proud. We look forward to hearing how you get on in Augusts results!

Below is Charlotte and Rolo's video completing their E-Rider Novice Dressage class, placing 2nd for WSRC.
National & L&SE Dressage to Music Qualifier at Plumpton College - Sunday 21st July 2019
​Well done to our WSRC Dressage to music members who represented us in the qualifier. Congratulations to Vikki who won the Dressage to Music Intro and came 2nd in the Prelim, Vikki and Beauty are off to the London &SE finals after qualifying in both of their classes. 

Sara won her Novice (no points) class qualifying for both the Nationals and L&SE finals. Jenny came 4th in her novice (points) class and both Jenny and Sara came 2nd in the novice pairs class qualifying for L&SE. A huge well done to all of you and thank you for representing WSRC! What an amazing team!
WSRC Members Day Camp at Munstead - Saturday 20th July 2019
WSRC held our very popular annual day camp at Munstead. A massive thank you to Jenny for organising such a fun day that was loved by everyone that took part. 

This picture encapsulates what WSRC and our camp is all about. We are a club that encourages people to have ago, face fears and have FUN. Through out the day our members learnt lots, challenged themselves and were all still smiling at the end! Thank you to Anna Stonehill, Kimberley Smith and Hinda Inglis for being our fabulous instructors and to Jenny Tully for organising the day! Well done everyone!

As always we are extremely lucky to have our club photographer Chris give up his time to record all the fun and achievements our members have.
WSRC Open Dressage and Showing Show - Sunday 14th July 2019
It was wonderful to see so many of our members and local riders attend our Open Dressage and Showing Show at Whipley Manor Farm. As always this was a fun and friendly event with classes suitable to all. A huge thank you to Julie for organising the day and all of the WSRC committee and members who helped run the day and make this show such a success. With out you this show would not have been possible. 

A big well done to all of you who took part, it was fantastic to see so many new and old faces. Thank you to our wonderful judges and to Duncan from 'Howe to Tow for sponsoring our Showing and Championship classes and to Tina Pendle at Cranleigh Stud for sponsoring the Dressage classes. 

Thank you to Christopher for taking wonderful photographs for us to all enjoy and cherish.
BRC Equithème Intermediate Winter Dressage Championship – Sunday 28th May 2019
A massive congratulations to Caitlin and her lovely horse Shaun who had a very successful Intermediate Winter Championships achieving a personal best of over 70% in her Elementary test and coming 6th. Then another great Novice test of over 68% and coming 7th!
Open Dressage Friendly Show at Merrist Wood, Friday 19th April 2019
Thank you to everyone who made made our Open Dressage Show at Merrist Wood such a success, whether you were competing, judging, helping or spectating. The sun was shining and the day was full of smiles and laughter. We saw some fantastic entries making all of our local riding clubs feel very proud. Lots of beautiful rosettes and prizes were given out to both teams and individuals. A big well done to everyone who took part.
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A huge thank you to Julie Johnson for organising, planning and running the day along with her wonderful WSRC helpers Beverley, Ro, Chris, Cathy, Jacqui, Sue, Simon, Sam, Tina, Nicola, Veronica, Annabel, Jill, Katherine, Paula, Vikki, Louise and Julie. Without all of you the day would not run, we can not thank you enough. We were extremely lucky to have amazing judges give up their time to judge all of our classes, thank you to  Claire Stephens, Di Peacock, Yvonne Huber, Sue Rowlands and Suzanne Holt for doing such an incredible job.

Thank you to Chris our club photographer who took some great photographs for our WSRC show team, members and riders.
2nd March 2019 - Intermediate Show Jumping Qualifier at BCA
We had a wonderful day out with our very talented 1m WSRC intermediate Show Jumping Team. Our team rode beautifully finishing the day in 2nd place. A huge congratulations to Louise for placing individually in 2nd place and qualifying for finals, and to Lynn placing 4th and Giselle for placing 5th and to Lauren for coming out and competing Drum for the first time in ages and jumping him over huge fences beautifully. Thank you to all of you for representing our club and to Christopher for giving up his Saturday to photograph our team and to Cathy, Britta and everyone’s friends and family for supporting. Big thanks to Ava and BeBe who did a fantastic job as our team volunteers. We really appreciate the time everyone gives up to help WSRC. As always lots of smiles from the WSRC team! Good work team we are very proud of you all!
Novice Winter 80-85cm Show Jumping Qualifier at Sands Farm - Sunday 10th February 2019A massive well done to our WSRC team and individual show jumpers. We had one team and two individuals entered for this, with the 1st round a course of fences at 80cm and then a 2nd round at 85cms. The format was the usual team of 4 with 3 scores to count. Our team did really well to finish in 5th place with beautiful purple rosettes to match our WSRC colours! In the first round Tina and Tanya flew around the course and unfortunately just caught a pole each. Sam  had a steady clear, followed by a neat and tidy clear from Kimberly. The second round was a bit more problematic for our intrepid jumpers. It was a very testing course with the jumps being wide spreads and up to full height. Tina knocked one pole, Tanya was sadly eliminated when her pony decided he’d had enough of jumping things bigger than him! Sam did a super clear and Kimberly just caught the very last fence. This gave the team a finishing score of 12 and put them 5th overall. 

We had Charlotte represent WSRC as a senior individual and Imogen as a junior individual. Charlotte was the first of our two individual riders but it was not her day and she was unfortunate to be eliminated. Our junior rider Imogen rode a lovely first round with one unfortunate pole knocked. Imogen’s second round was also problematic when her pony decided that green just wasn’t his favourite colour resulting in elimination.
There was a wonderful supportive team spirit between our riders and supporters and as always all of our riders ended the day with lots of smiles. Thank you to our six riders for representing WSRC, being part of team does make show jumping more fun as it gives you someone to support between your rounds and someone to cheer you on when it’s your turn. Our members wore black arm bands whilst competing in loving memory and respect for our membership secretary Rebecca Attridge.

Many thanks to Jenny for being our wonderful team manger, Julie, Judith and all of the WSRC friends and family for supporting our club on the day. A huge thank you to our wonderful club photographer Chris who took time to support s in the cold and take beautiful photographs for us all to enjoy.

WSRC Christmas Gathering - Sunday 23rd December 2018
It was great to see lots of our lovely WSRC members at our Christmas gathering on Sunday. We enjoyed mince pies, mulled wine, hot drinks and savory snacks from Cathy's camper van along with Christmas music and a grotto full of fairy lights created by Chris! Thank you to everyone who joined us and it was made very special to see lots of horses and dogs dressed in tinsel with our members too. We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
Thank you Chris for these wonderful photographs. Click this link to see more!
WSRC Members Dressage Series at Kilnhanger - Sunday 25th November 2018
We had a wonderful day with our members doing Dressage at Kilnhanger. A  huge thank you to everyone who helped on Sunday including Vikki, Julie, Cass and Chris. As always we are extremely grateful to Lynn's generosity in lending us her facilities to run our show. Well done to everyone who competed, some great scores out there and it was lovely to see everyone enjoying their horses.
A big thank you to Christopher Lee for the great photographs of our Dressage show. Please click here to see more.
WSRC AGM and Awards night - Friday 23rd November 2018
We had a wonderful evening at Cranleigh RDA celebrating all of our members successes from the year. The evening combined our awards with a fantastic and engaging talk from Dietrich von Schweinitz. Dietrich is a very skilled and experienced acupuncturist for animals with a veterinary back ground. We heard all about his amazing work and past stories as well as his commitment to helping a huge number of charities through 'Vets with Horse Power'.We are grateful to Dietrich for giving up his evening to talk to us and present awards as well as Cranleigh RDA for kindly lending us their facilities.

Chairman speech to follow along wit WSRC awards and rosette results.
A big thank you to all of our members and their commitment through out 2018. We have been so pleased to see so many of you attending training, socials, volunteering at events and competing for our club. This is always done with a smile!
Thank you Chris for the lovely photographs of our evening.
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Join WSRC

If you would like to find out how to become a member of our riding club please click on the link below. If you have any questions please email WSRC and we will be happy to help. westsurreyrc@gmail.com

Open Shows

Friday 10th April, 2020
WSRC Annual Open Dressage Show and at Merrist Wood

​This is a friendly open show run by West Surrey Riding Club. We will be running open classes along side the Area 11 team friendly competetions. It is aways a great show with a wonderful atmosphere.
We hope to see you at our future Open Dressage, Showing and Show Jumping Horse Shows this summer!

WSRC Training & Events

WSRC run lots of fun events, clinics and competitions through out the year for all of our members. These are booked online via 'My Riding Life'. To access bookings, please click on the logo above.

For more information on what is available to you as a WSRC member please visit our 'Entries & Training' ' page on this website.

WSRC Facebook Group

Our WSRC members regularly use our Facebook group to celebrate member successes, discuss training and events and keep up to date with Riding Club news. Please see the link below.

Save the Date

17th August 2019
WSRC Members, Family & Friends BBQ
at the Drummond, Albury
£20 per person for full BBQ
£18 per person for Vegetarian menu
£10 for under 12 year olds

1st September 2019
WSRC Open Show Jumping & Showing Show
​at Whipley Manor Farm 
Show Jumping 40cm - 1m
Showing ridden and in hand classes.
​Entries via MRL

19th September 2019
Blenheim eventer challenge
90cm or 1m team of 4 riders

13th October 2019
FOTH Eventer Challenge
at Munstead.

9th November 2019
Arena Eventing
at Pyecombe.

11th November 2019
Area 11 Team Quiz
The Watermill, Dorking.

Last updated  13/01/2019
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