Senior team member competing in the International

Ring at Hickstead

FARLINGTON'S OPEN SHOW

held on 20th June at Royal Leisure, Henfield

The Show was a huge success with over 200 competitors and the schools section had 10-15 separate schools in each of the four sections.

The Schools Show Jumping classes were NSEA Championship qualifiers and also incorporated the West Sussex County Championship awarded to the highest placed West Sussex School in each section.

IThe Novice class was won by Farlington with a team consisting of Helena Taubert, Kitty Scott, Amber Gordon and Mariella Savage. They beat off strong competition from Cranleigh, the Weald, Ardingly and many other local schools. The team not only qualified for the NSEA championships but were also crowned West Sussex County Champions.

In the Intermediate Cranleigh won and came 2nd with Farlington in third place. Because Farlington was the highest placed West Sussex school we again won the County Championship and qualify for the Championships in December.

The long day was finished with Farlington being the only school to have a final score of no penalties in the first round of the Open section, to win the class, and once again be crowned County Champions and qualify for the Championships. The Team consisted of Genevieve Clarke, Katie Calvert, Laura Schroter and Charlotte White. 

The Farlington Riding Squad has been one of the most successful school squads, either winning or being placed at events all around the country for more than a decade.

Farlington is situated in prime equestrian country enabling pupils to stable their horses either at home or at local livery yards. Farlington, despite having no specific equestrian facilities is delighted to offer regular training at the local equestrian centres and X Country schoolings at several of the surrounding British Eventing courses. Farlington strongly supports the girls in their riding pursuits which ensures that the squad is very competitive both at school competitions and on an individual basis.

Throughout the year the squad (with girls ranging from 8 to 18 years old) compete for Farlington at all local Team Show Jumping events and further afield at championship events such as the Eventing Championships held in Wiltshire and the NSEA ( National Schools Equestrian Association ) Championships held in Bedfordshire.

Farlington's winning team in the Open Class

Farlington's winning NoviceTeam

NSEA Champions

Riders from Farlington excelled themselves at the National Schools Equestrian Association Championships, held in Bedford during the last weekend in November.

Farlington started the two-day event well by coming 2nd in the Dressage Championships. In the Mini Jumping with Style Championship Ellie Burnell-Price gained the top score in the Team event and Chloe Mariani won the Mini Individual Championship.

On Sunday Farlington got off to a flying start by coming 1st in the Novice Jumping with Style Championship with the team consisting of Henrietta Walker-Duncalf, Katie Calvert, Grace Durkan and Harriet Upton. Harriet gained the best score overall. Henrietta also won in the Novice Individual Championship. In the Intermediate Jumping with Style Championship our team came 2nd with Charlotte White winning overall.

Farlington rounded off the day by coming 2nd in the Open Jumping with Style Championship with Charlotte White coming 2nd overall.

Sophie Spear, Director of Riding, at Farlington said, “The girls performed so well and thoroughly enjoyed the competition. Their hard work has really paid off with Farlington being placed in every class throughout the weekend. We are extremely proud of them.”

Winning Novice Team

Dressage Team

Winning Team at St Leonard's Mayfield

RECENTLY ...

At the St Leonard's Mayfield NSEA Qualifier on Saturday 19th September Farlington won in two sections - the Novice and the Intermediate. This meant two more teams qualified for the NSEA Championships in November.The teams consisted of Henrietta Walker Duncalf, Grace Durkan, Chloe Durkan and Katie Calvert.

Henrietta Walker Duncalf also qualified individually in both the Novice and the Intermediate and Katie Calvert qualified in the Novice. They had to be placed in the top 3 individually in order to achieve this.

The Surrey Union Pony Club Dressage Qualifier was won by Farlington leading to their qualification for the Dressage Championships to be held in Bedfordshire in November.

In August four teams competed at The Hickstead Showjumping Championships. Our junior team came sixth and one of our three senior teams competed in the main ring and finished ninth out of 64 teams.

EVENTS DURING THE LAST SCHOOL YEAR ...

The Farlington Open Show 2009

This was held at Royal Leisure on Sunday 21st June and was a huge success. There were an excellent number of entries and all the rings were busy throughout the day.Well done to Copthorne Prep for winning the Mini Teams; Cranleigh the Intermediate Teams and Farlington’s team of Henrietta Walker Duncalf, Hannah Parker Smith, Megan Ayre and Genieve Clarke who won the Open.

Farlington School looks forward to seeing everyone again on Fathers’ Day next year.

St Leonards Mayfield One Day Event

On a scorching hot Saturday, June 27th, Farlington School was represented by three teams of girls competing at an inter-schools one day event competition at St Leonard’s Mayfield School, Mayfield in East Sussex.

The mini eventing team swept the board with Grace Durkan, Melissa Joannides and Stephanie Joannides coming 1st as a team. The girls were also individually placed, Grace Durkan took 2nd, Melissa Joannides took 3rd and Stephanie Joannides won best dressage in her section. In the bigger novice section Katie Calvert, Francesca Wood and Genevieve Clarke made up a team of 3 and did exceptionally well by taking 1st place. Katie Calvert and Genevieve Clarke both won their sections and Francesca Wood came 4th. Farlington's final team consisted of Harriet Upton, Chloe Durkan, Megan Ayre and Hannah Parker Smith, they came 3rd  with Hannah Parker-Smith taking 2nd in her section and Harriet Upton taking  6th in hers. 

The Farlington riding squad have had a fantastic season in all disciplines with great success in all levels. Sights are now set on the National Show jumping finals at Hickstead in August.

Farlington Mini Team at the Open Show