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 Open Friendly and Area 11
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID RULE OF COVERED ARENA
New Date to be confirmed soon
Dressage Show at Merristwood
with kind spomsored by
www.eriders.co.uk

IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS WE WILL HAVE TO POSTPONE OUR WSRC OPEN DRESSAGE SHOW. Please see formal notification from BEF that indoor arenas will remain closed for the time being. With that in mind, following our email to competitors, we have no choice but to cancel Good Friday Dressage. We will talk to Merrist Wood to reschedule and once we have that date we will contact all competitors with the option to transfer your entry to the new date or have an immediate refund. 
WSRC AGM - Wednesday 3rd February 2021
And the Winner is....... here are the 2020 Trophy winners as announced at last nights -AGM - thank you to those that attended - minutes and chairman’s report available shortly. Congratulations to Sam Watson, Judith Dunne, Nicki Luckett, Annabel Rigby,  Karen Stone, Ro Major, Paula Hynes, Gaby Hitchen, Christopher Lee, Jenny Tully, Vikki Chuter, Fiona Watkins, Tanya Creaye-Griffin, and Giselle Stent.

Thank you so much to our Chair Julie Johnson and the rest of the WSRC committee for organising the event and to Christopher Lee for the fabulous photographs and slideshow.
Area 11 Combined Training Team Qualifier - Saturday 19th September 2020
A huge well done to our combined training team who came an amazing 3rd place overall! Individually Susan came 4th, Kim came 2nd and Nicki came 3rd! This was a fantastic result for WSRC who ended up competing with a team of 3 instead of 4 and with a last minute change of team members due to a change of date. This gave our team less than 2 weeks to prepare, we couldn't be prouder!

Well done to our junior rider Sophie for competing in her first riding club competition for WSRC. A massive thank you goes to Tanya for organising the team, Beverley SMith for kindly giving up her day and volunteering to be a show jump steward so that our team were able to compete and to Chris who not only took his beautiful photographs but also stood in as team manager and did a fabulous job looking after our team of riders and horses.

Combined training photographs available at this link.
WSRC Open Showing and SJ Show Sunday 6th September 2020
A massive well done to all of our competitors and congratulations to those of you who went away with beautiful rosettes and fantastic prizes from Baileys Horse Feeds and Dobson and Horrell, we hope you and your horses all had an amazing time. It was wonderful to see so many old and new faces. We look forward to seeing you all at our next show!

A huge thank you to all of our volunteers and members who put so much time and effort into making this fantastic show possible. 

Thank you to Samantha from 'Supreme Images' for the photographs. If you would like to purchase some photographs from the day please see the following website for further details:
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WSRC Surrey Hills Treasure Hunt Fun Ride - 24th November 2019
We held our first treasure hunt on Farley Heath leaving from the Roman Temple which was open to members and non members . Riders followed a marked trail looking for ‘treasure’ hidden in trees including gold and silver (sprayed fir cones) and rubies (red tree baubles) along with carrots for the horses and the final piece of treasure was a slice of cake ! Everyone really enjoyed the event and the weather stayed fine ! We plan to hold another in the Spring so details to follow. 
Winter Novice Dressage Team Qualifier - 24th November 2019
Well done to our Novice dressage team of Judith Dunne, Amy Newton, Charlotte Willis and Karen Stone for coming 6th at the recent novice qualifier held at Sands Farm back in November – it’s a great result with some personal bests from Charlotte and Amy. Thank you for taking part and getting us a place!! 

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WSRC Members Winter Dressage Series - Sunday 17th November 2019
On 17th November we ran a members dressage event at Mayor House Farm . We had great feedback from all members about the beautiful surroundings and of course the weather. Results can be found on the website and on Facebook – Congratulations to those that have already qualified for the 2020 Championship! I can’t guarantee sunshine for the next members dressage but I can promise some festive cheer ! 
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BRC Area 11 Quiz - 17th November 2019
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E-Rider Riding Club Dressage Competitions - October 2019 league results
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London and South East Dressage to Music Championship - 27th October 2019
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London and South East Horse Trials Championship - 6th October 2019
Congratulations to Giselle for going double clear today in the Horse trials and placing 5th individually. Massive well done to all our WSRC ladies for their fantastic dressage scores! Especially well ridden dressage tests from Amy with 27 and to Tina getting 28.8. We saw some great showjumping, with only a couple of knocks and all looked great going into the XC. Unfortunately both Amy and Sara’s horses didn’t want to leave their friends, and made their riders work hard for it and got around the course with a couple of refusals, Giselle and Tina rode fantastic clear rounds.
Today wasn’t our day for the team finishing 13th out of 18, however as always we had fun, lots of smiles and support and everyone finished safely. Thank you to everyone involved and to Chris for the photographs, Sylvia and Nicki jump judging and to Julie for dressage writing and to Cathy, Ro for their wonderful support.
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London and South East Dressage Championship at Snowball Farm - 6th October 2019
We were very proud of our WSRC Dressage team, they worked hard in preparation for this event and really came up trumps in tough company! We had ‘old timers' and ‘newbies’ in our team competing against some very established teams from multiple other South East BRC areas. It was great for our little club to even be there let a known get a place! Congratulations Tina, Louise, Judith and Sarah on your 5th place out of 13 very strong teams. Congratulations to Louise on her individual 1st place.

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Arena Eventing Qualifier at Cherwell House - Sunday 29th November 2019

A huge congratulations to Tina for placing first place in the Arena eventing competition and qualifying for finals! It looks like another outing to Aston will be planned in March!

Well done to the rest of the team competing for WSRC around what seemed like a surprisingly challenging course. Tina and Dolly rode a beautiful smooth and fast clear round, followed by Louise who rode a confident round with a couple of unfortunate knocks. Sam and Tally had a tough time in the warm up ring which shook them both up prior o going in and then could not jump a spread in the arena so sadly got eliminated. Megan and Tills had a great whizzy round until right at the end when her horse spooked at the stewards and threw in a stop and spin and Megan did the most graceful dismount landing sitting on the XC bench jump.

It was not to be today for the team sadly, however really proud of everyone to still be smiling afterwards and so supportive of each other. Well done everyone. A massive thank you to Chris for kindly travelling all that way to photograph or team and to Cathy for helping.
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
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2020 WSRC members can renew their membership at the special reduced membership rate to thank you for continuing to support us through tough times. If you recommend friends to become new WSRC members we have an exciting voucher scheme!

Open Shows

​WSRC Open Friendly and Area 11
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID RULE OF COVERED ARENA
New Date to be confirmed soon
Dressage Show at Merristwood
with kind spomsored by
www.eriders.co.uk
CANCELLED DRESSAGE SHOW
*Good Friday Dressage CANCELLED*
Please see formal notification from BEF that indoor arenas will remain closed for the time being. With that in mind, following our email to competitors, we have no choice but to cancel Good Friday Dressage. We will talk to Merrist Wood to reschedule and once we have that date we will contact all competitors with the option to transfer your entry to the new date or have an immediate refund. 

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

Friday 2nd April
Open Dressage Show
(Area 11 friendly)
at Merristwood
Class 1: PYO (intro C/ Prelim 2)
Class 2: Prelim 7
Class 3: Prelime 13
Class 4: Novice 24
Class 5: PYO (Nov 28/ Ele 42)

Monday 5th April
WSRC and Area11 Arena Eventing Training
at Pyecombe
with Tracy Brown
Group 1 70-80cm
Group 2 80-90cm
Group 3 90cm-1m
£42.50 each

​Sunday 11th April
Arena Eventing Qualifier 
at Coombelands
​Hosted by WSRC
Helpers needed 
1 x 70cm team member needed to ride

Tuesday 13th April 
Flatwork at East Whipley Farm
with Ali Cookson
Times from 9am - 12pm
£35 each

Sunday 18th April
Dressage at Cranleigh RDA
with Catriona Moorwood
£20

Sunday 25th April
Polework at Cranleigh RDA
with Sarah Jane Hornsby
£20

Friday 30th April
Flat work at East Whipley Farm
with Ali Clarkson
£35

Last updated  08/02/2021
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