Welcome to a new face

At the end of last term we were all excited to welcome the newest member to the team: Ollie.

"Oliver", known as Ollie, joined our group in the summer and has been getting along well.  He is only 5 years old but has a wonderful temperament and is very gentle.  At 16.1hh he is on the big side for some of our smaller riders, but as long as we can get the riders on, they enjoy riding him!  Ollie arrived from Ireland earlier this year, and then spent some time on a yard in Pembrokeshire before we bought him.  He's lovely to hack out as well as being a good boy in the arena for our RDA lessons.

 

 

An Introducttion from our new Chairman - Pipper Corney

I joined the Cambs College RDA group just after the Covid lockdown. I had borrowed one of the RDA horses, Larry, during lockdown to teach my husband to ride. After that I became a volunteer. When Tomoko had to leave the group and return home to Japan, I took on the horse welfare a job that Tomoko previously held within the group. When Gillian announced she would like to step down I agreed to become the vice chairman to try and learn the job. I am now the chair but luckily for me we have a very good team of volunteers I can rely on and Gillian is on hand for advice whenever I need it. I have loved being a volunteer and it has taught me so much about disability and how well that works with horses. For me the horse bit was quite easy as I have had horses all my life. I am now about to take my final assessment to becoming a coach too. 

I look forward to the future with such a great team of people to work with and helping our riders enjoy their sessions on our fabulous horses.