Coast spends the day at Chilham Castle BE Horse Trials

Over the weekend Chilham Park hosted Chilham Castle British Eventing Horse Trials. Classes ran on both Saturday and Sunday, these included BE80(T) through to a selection of Novice classes.

Chilham Park is set in the beautiful grounds of Chilham Castle in Kent. The cross country course offers a huge range of fences and is popular with riders at all levels. Chilham hosts a number of British Eventing competitions each year and this weekend’s event was the first of the 2018 season.

The Coast team attended the event on Saturday to support some friends competing on the day. Although the sun was nowhere to be seen we were lucky enough to miss the rain and had a great day following the usual thrills and spills of eventing.

This year Chilham’s layout was altered slightly with the show jumping below the castle and the dressage to the right of the show jumping. The cross country start and finish had also moved to where the cross country warm up has been in previous years. A lot of competitors commented throughout the day on how the change of layout was refreshing.

For those competitors registered with the South East Eventers League, Chilham (1) was a qualifying event for this season, Coast is sponsoring this year’s SEEL Veteran Rider rankings. At the end of March Bronia Hill was leading the Veteran Rider rankings with 6 points.

Class Winners at Chilham Castle

Well done to all competitors that competed over the two days, the winners of each class were…

Class and Section	Rider	Horse	Score
MC Vet Physio BE90 Section A	Susannah Skeggs	TOPHOLM TRIBUTE	22.8
Spidge Event Photography BE90 Section B	Annabel Murphy	MILORE BORMES	28.3
Barretts Jaguar Land Rover BE90 Section C	Ollie Martin	MARTINS IRISH VIKING	29.5
Barretts Jaguar Land Rover BE90 Section D	Kate Linabury	LISKY BROOK	21.8
Milbourn Equine Vets BE90 Section E	Beverley Mattelaer	HEADDON DIAMOND LIL	22.8
Cork Farm Equestrian BE90 Open Section F	Melissa Joannides	CRAAN BOB	25.3
Chavereys BE80(T) Section G	Rebecca Crawford	DOLLYS DAYDREAM II	32.3
Chavereys BE80(T) Section H	Julie Offen	INUS PH	31.0
Chavereys BE80(T) Section I	Lucy K Wheeler	WHAT A FELLA II	29.9
Olson Timber Buildings BE100 Section J	Tom D Crisp	DONNA HALCYON	21.0
Olson Timber Buildings BE100 Section K	Melissa Joannides	HAY JOSEPHINE	23.3
Olson Timber Buildings BE100 Open Section L	Megan Williams	FLUGEL S	30.8
Gillett Cook BE100 Open U18 Section M	Josh Moore	FUNNY BOY FORTUNA	21.3
Gillett Cook BE100 Open U18 Section N	Eloise Van Praagh	LYDICAN STAR	28.7
George Haslett Antiques BE100 Plus Section O	Harry Dzenis	GULF STREAM III	28.0
Canaccord Genuity ONu18 Section P	Katie Hale	KILLACORAN BLUE	30.0
Canaccord Genuity Novice Section Q	Tom Jackson	GEORGIO D OVER	28.0
Canaccord Genuity Novice Section R	Tom Jackson	FORREST GUMP 124	25.8
Canaccord Genuity Open Novice Section S	Melissa Joannides	BRIARLANDS BIRDSONG	28.8