Eventing 

Pony Club Teams & Qualification Criteria

There are three Pony Club Eventing Teams that riders can apply and trial for each year:

  • Club Teams – Bruce Forbes Teams Training and Timberlands Eventing

  • Area Team – NZPCA Eventing Champs

    NZPCA Eventing Competitions follow the ESNZ Rules for Eventing, so it is important you are familiar with these.
    A copy of the ESNZ RULES FOR EVENTING incorporating NZPCA Eventing Competition Rules as at 1 August 2021 can be found     here:

    To follow is a summary of each Evening Team and the qualification.


BRUCE FORBES TEAMS TRAINING

  • January - Wairarapa Show Grounds, Clareville, Carterton
  • A team of 6 combinations – 2 x NZPC 95cm riders and 2 x NZPC 80 cm riders and 2 riders x NZPC 65cm riders.
  • A team must have at least 1 rider in each level.  Top 4 scores count towards team results.
  • This team is selected upon riders’ application forms submitted with results from Pony Club and ESNZ Eventing competitions achieved in the same or preceding spring and autumn seasons.
  • Send your applications to heretaungaponyclub@gmail.com

Note that rider/mount combinations must not have competed at a higher level than the level they are competing at in this event, i.e. a combination that has competed at NZPC 95cm level cannot be a team member at NZPC 80cm level. Riders who have competed at a higher level are eligible as long as they are on a different mount.

Additionally, a rider/mount combination must have attained two live scores in the last two years at the level they are competing at for the Bruce Forbes Teams Event.


Timberlands Eventing

Tokoroa

A team of 6 combinations – NZPC 95cm riders and NZPC 80 riders. There must be at least one rider of each height in the team. Maximum of two riders aged 21 – 24. The top four scores count and must include at least one score from each height.
This team is selected upon riders’ application forms submitted with results from Pony Club and ESNZ Eventing competitions achieved in the same or preceding spring and autumn seasons.

Additional Eligibility Criteria:

  1. NZPC 80cm combinations must NOT have posted a score at NZPC 95cm or above.
  2. NZPC 95cm combinations can have posted at 1.05m level but must NOT have even entered at 1.10m / 1* level.
  3. Riders attending Eventing Champs at DC (1.05m) level in 2022, whether in a team or as an individual, are NOT eligible on their Champs mount but may ride a different mount.
  4. Riders attending Eventing Champs at MT (95cm) level in 2022, whether in a team or as an individual, are welcome to ride at Timberlands on the same mount.


NZPCA Eventing Champs

  • April 

A team of 6 combinations is selected, but in most cases 1st reserves are also required to travel:

  • 2 x A1 riders (NZPC 1.10m) – 24 years and under as at 1st August 2022
  • 2 x DC riders (NZPC 1.05m) – 18 years and under as at 1st August 2022
  • 2 x MT riders (NZPC 95cm) – 14 years and under as at 1st August 2022

National Qualifications Standard (NQS)

  • To be eligible to apply for the Hawke’s Bay Area Pony Club Eventing Champs team
  • combinations are required to have obtained 2 (two) NQSs within the 12 months or 3 (three) within the 24 months preceding the Championship.
  • NQSs must be achieved at the level trialing for or above.
  • An NQS is achieved by completing a competition within the following minimum performance parameters:
    Not less than 50% in the Dressage Test; and
    Not more than 30 penalties at obstacles on the Cross Country Test; and
    Not more than 90 seconds exceeding the optimum time in the Cross Country Test; and
    Not more than 16 penalties in the Jumping Test
  • There are no dispensations for NQSs.
  • Rally attendance is also a requirement.

Team Selection – Entries close ..............

  • Area Trials will no longer be held.
  • Riders are to submit to their Area up to three (3) scores from within the 12 months prior to entries closing .......
  • Areas will then convert the results to points using the points system. The rider/mount combinations will then be ranked in the three divisions in the order they have scored, e.g. the highest placed combination in the A1 division is a team rider, the second highest placed is a team rider, the third highest placed is an individual rider and so on.
  • Areas may consider other combination who have their NQSs in 24 months if less than six riders post results.
  • Alternative and Combined teams will continue to be allowed.

Application for Team Selection

  • Applications for Team Selection need to be made to Hawke’s Bay Area Pony Club and received no later than ......... Official application forms and details will be available shortly.
  • All entries for the Championship, whether team riders or individual riders, must be made by Areas.
  • Areas are required to nominate the number of riders likely to attend Eventing Champs by ............
  • Whilst the closing date for Applications for Team Selection is not until ..............HBAPC encourage riders who intend to apply for team selection to register their intention as soon as possible, so they can be included in the HBAPC Eventing Champs ‘Squad’ and benefit from any pre-selection training, coaching and advice.
  • This will also allow the HBAPC Eventing committee to apply for funding, organize fundraising opportunities and better plan for team travel, accommodation, coaching, etc.

HBAPC Eventing Performance Awards

At the end of each Eventing season (March/April), Hawke’s Bay Area Pony Club award performance trophies:

  • The Pappalino Trophy is awarded to the best performing A1 level rider.
  • The Margaret McLean Cup is awarded to the best performing DC level rider.
  • The von Dadelszen Cup is awarded to the best performing NZPC 95cm level rider on a horse.
  • The Rayner Cup is awarded to the best performing 95cm level rider on a pony.
  • The winner of the von Dadelszen Cup and the Rayner Cup is awarded based on scores from the three HB Area PC ODE’s – Flaxmere, Havelock North and HB Area – plus any other NZPCA or ESNZ competitions in the same spring and autumn seasons.


ESNZ Eventing Calendar: https://www.nzequestrian.org.nz/disciplines/eventing/competition/spring-calendar/

Questions?
If you are unsure about the level you are at, or where to start, please ask your Branch Head Coach or contact Lysbeth McCrory who are always available and happy to assist.

Lysbeth McCrory
Phone: 021 244 2034   Email: lmccrory@me.com