Southampton Uni Riding A-Team Won Weds BUSA Competition!

Basically the title says it all, the Southampton Uni A-Team won the A-Team competition on Weds at Pinkmead. It was their home comp, and so thats kind of expected. The team came first overall against Surrey, Portsmouth and Brighton Unis, and the four Southampton riders, Lizzie, Tom, Phil and Jenny, all recieved the top four individual scores as well.

For those of you who do not know how the BUSA competitions work there is a dressage stage, and a showjumping stage, each stage using 4 horses from the home teams stables who are shown to the riders in a short demonstration before they decide who will ride which horse. Then they get a short amount of time to warm up on the horse before taking the dressage test, or jumping the course. Our A-Team is very good, but then i would say that because i'm biased.

I spent the day being a helper [timing warmups, putting up knocked down jumps, helping with getting the horses ready, not plaiting because i really have no talent in that area] (yes i know lowest of the low) but it was fun in the warped kind of way that helping at stables always is, and we got to watch the teams ride so it was all good.

If you want to find out more about Southampton Uni Riding Club and teams check out the website here. If you want to find out more about BUSA and all the sporting events they offer look at their website here.