About High Fen Riding Club
High Fen Riding club was founded in the 1960s and is based in the Suffolk /Essex area of the South-East of England. The club aims to encourage riding as a sport and for recreation, promoting fellowship amongst its members and maintaining the standard of horsemanship. It organises instructional meetings, training clinics, lectures and competitive events and is affiliated to the British Horse Society. The club also associates itself with investigating the subject of bridle ways to ensure that riders of all ages have a safe and enjoyable environment in which to experience the pleasure of horse riding.
This professionally-run club has thrived since then with its 150 members ranging from 17 (minimum age) to ...., who enjoy the thrills and spills of horse riding for fun and competing at local and national level. The club has won the British Riding Clubs' Area 14 Chairman's trophy on the last four consecutive years through its breadth of talented members, hard working and dedicated committee and with the support of its trainers and volunteers willing to give their time to the club.
Over the years, High Fen teams have competed successfully at the BRC National Championships in Dressage, Show Jumping and Eventing where it has placed additional focus in recent times to give new and exciting opportunities to its members. This paid dividends in 2003, when High Fen RC teams took 2nd place at both the Open 3 day event Championships beaten by just 1 point and top 10 placings in Individual and team Novice 2 day event Championships at Offchurch. In addition, 2003 also saw one of its members go on to win the BRC National Elementary Dressage Championships at Lincoln.
In 2004 the High Fen team consisting of Penny Baker, Rebecca Baker, Caroline Blew and Sarah Chenevix-Trench won the Riding Clubs Open Hunter Trials Championship held at Grange Farm, Peterborough in the spring, and in 2005 both the Novice and Open Dressage Teams won their Qualifiers (held at the Suffolk Showground) for the Riding Clubs National Championships
If you see yourself as a keen horse rider and would like to be associated with the club, please don't hesitate to contact any one of the Committee.
Riding Clubs' Novice ODE National Champions 2006
Sarah Baxter, Maddie Baxter, Louise Keeble and Emily Clover
with Team Manager Eileen Shadford