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

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.
Click here to see previous WSRC news and events.

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 19th April
Open Friendly Dressage Show
at Merrist Wood
Team and individual entries.
Schedule below....
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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

23rd March 2019
Intermediate Winter Dressage Qualifier
at Sands Farm

30th March
Clear Round Show Jumping
at Mayor House Farm
11am-11.30am - 50cm-60cm
11.30am -12pm- 60-70cm plus
£5

7th April 2019
Flat work Clinic
at Mayor House Farm
with Sally Bishop
£40

14th April 2019
Show Jumping Clinic
at Mayor House Farm
with Sally Thurloway
11am-12pm 50-60cm
12pm-1pm 80cm
1pm-2pm 90cm plus
£25 each

19th April 2019
Area friendly Dressage
run by us WSRC
at Merrist Wood

27th April 2019
Lateral work clinic
at Lockner Farm
with Sarah Jane Hornsby
£20 each

19th May 2019
Members Dressage Series

1st June 2019
Horse Trials Team competition
at Coombelands Equestrian
teams of 4 80cm
teams of 4 90cm
teams of 4 1m
teams of 4 !m plus

8th June 2019
Show Jumping and Style Jumping teams of 4

15th June 2019
Show Jumping
teams of 4

23rd June 2019
Members Dressage Series Championship

6th July 2019
Dressage and Riding Test Qualifier
at Pachesham

21st July 2019
Dressage to Music Qualifier
at Plumpton

28th July 2019
Team Show Jumping
at Hickstead
Team of 3 riders
85cm, 95cm and 1.05m

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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