Equissage Celebrity JumpCross Challenge A Great Success

Press Release 18th April 2006

A few wet showers did not stop the fun at this year’s Equissage Celebrity JumpCross Challenge.

The competition at Grange Farm, Wittering was a huge success, with many teams battling it out for the prizes in the Open and Novice classes.

Competitors were put into teams of five and were captained by a leading event rider including; Brooke Staples, Mark and Tanya Kyle, Julia Crowson, Julian Trevor Roper and Tiny Clapham.

The day started with each team being taken on a course walk by their celebrity event rider, and advised on how to ride the JumpCross fences. Valuable advice and team tactics were given to all team members.

After each JumpCross round all team members including their captains, enjoyed the hilarious egg catapulting competition. Everybody was given equipment to build an egg catapult machine. It was noted from the sidelines that all the event riders became very involved and competitive, and a certain amount of sabotage from some celebrity event riders was evident!

In the novice class Julia Crowson’s team were crowned champions, they finished on a score of 909.58 penalties. Team tactics aided their victory as all riders attempted the joker fence, therefore lowering the teams’ score leading to their victory. The team included, Danielle Jackson, Dawn Ross, Kevin Smith, Kate Croll and Lauren Dolby.

Runner up rosettes were awarded to Julian Trevor Roper’s team and third place was taken by Brooke Staples team.

An upright at the bottom of a hill with a related distance to a stream crossing caught a lot of riders out in the Open class.

Brooke Staples’ Team enjoyed victory in this section and all members once again attempted the Joker fence finishing on a score of 1060.85 points.

The winning team was, Alice Johnson, Sally Wagstaff, Ben Scott, Danielle Jackson and Malcolm Massey.

With Danielle Jackson and Rookie, a regular at the Grange Farm JumpCross, putting in the fastest rounds.

Tanya Kyle’s team finished in second place and Julia Crowson’s team finished third.

Throughout the day the action continued on the bouncy castle and bucking bronco.

Tanya Mutch triumphed in the Bucking Bronco Competition staying on for an amazing 127 seconds, winning an Equissage Hand Unit.

Fund raising also took place throughout the day, with the Tombola raising a whopping £900 for the RDA and many more private donations were added to increase the amount to well over £1500.

This will be split between, RDA and The Weston Spirit.

The Crown Pin Foundation is run by Niagra Health Care and each year staff in the various company divisions all raise money for the chosen charities. This year the Crown Pin Foundation chose the Weston Spirit as the charity to raise funds for.

The Weston Spirit was founded by Falklands hero Simon Weston to develop projects to help young people with educational needs, rehabilitation and to provide them with a direction in life to help them move on from their current situation.

For further information and dates please go to www.jumpcross.com or call JumpCross Headquarters on 01780 782356.

    




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