Powys Carriage Driving Group

Powys Carriage Driving Group are thrilled that eight of their members have qualified for the National Indoor Finals at Keysoe , Bedfordshire in April. Emily Ham in Open Pony and Jonathan Rees in Open Horse are strong contenders as they are both unbeaten this season. Emily Curnock is also top junior in her events in both Mid and South Wales affiliated events and Ray Hopkins has performed consistently well in both areas so has a good chance of the top ten nationally in the Veteran Class. Pet...

 This event is kindly sponsored by Hay & Brecon Farmers

9.50-10.10 Setting up : please help Ann move in the dressage boards and set up if you are on site at this time .

10.10 Emily Phillips

10.20 Jonathan Rees

10.30Rhianna Phillips

10.40 Ruth Jenkins

10.50 Emily Curnock

11.00 Jill Bravery

11.10 Paul Curnock

11.20 Wendy Morris

11.30 Rowena pair 1

10 minute comfort break

11.50 Alison Das...

On FRIDAY FEB the 28th  at Usk Indoor Arena ( Colleg Gwent) there is an Inrtoduction day. You can find out about harnessing up and carriages , long reining and driving a pony and rein handling for driving.

All welcome ...please bring hard hat to current safety standard to work with the ponies and riding gloves . warm sensible clothes.

Contact Ann Ham on [email protected] to secure your place. Estimated cost for the day £12

With regret the affiliated indoor event on FEb 16th has been cancelled due not only to the weather but also other unforseen circumstances.

The next affiliated event is March 9th at Llwynon . There is a TRec skills driving fun day at Usk in the indoor arena  on March 2nd and an Indoor driving day on March 15th with dressage in the morning and cones in the afternoon.

At the Affiliated indoor horse driving trials for January run by Powys Carriage Driving Group, club members were on fine form ! Jonathan Rees in Open Horse once again rocketed to victory with extremely fast obstacle times after a good dressage and cones to finish by winning the class and taking the Best Score of the Day on an excellent score of 132.5pens.

In second place overall winning young driver Emily Curnock, 13, showed her talent with the second highest dressage score of the d...

Class: Open Single Horse

Competitor    Dressage  Cones Obs 1 Obs 2 Obs 3 Obs 4 Total Score Place ^ Notes

Jonathan Rees     20.5           3      28         27   28          26           132.5           1

Ray Hopkins          18.5         17    ...