PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU ENTER.

General information:

On Monday, 15th July, all competitors will be sent an 'AF information sheet' via email.  You will need to please make sure your MRL account is linked to your present email address to receive this, and we wouldth th suggest you also check your spam / junk email folders on this day.

For ongoing updates relating to the AFs, please subscribe to our Facebook page 'Brook Farm TC Events'

No lungeing.  Dogs on leads.  Tests and warm-up in outdoor arena. 

Please email dressage@brookfarmtc.co.uk or call / message Sam on 07974 225005 with any questions 

Entries:

Late entries from 12/7/24 - midnight on 14/7/24 at £2 extra per class if space.  You should please enter this event promptly as last year we had to close the entries early for some classes which reached capacity.  Please note BD will not allow us to accept any entries beyond 14/7/24.

If you are travelling with another competitor or competing 2 horses on the same day, you MUST please highlight this in the 'class notes' (not 'event notes') section of your entry.  BD rule 59 applies to this event insofar as that the starting order for this competition will be drawn; what we are not able to do is change a rider's position in the class for any other reason than travelling arrangments with another competitor or riding multiple horses on the same day.

Times:

Times will be posted on the Brook Farm website hopefully by 2pm on Wednesday, 24th July (perhaps earlier).  We are not able to post times until we get the go-ahead from BD - please be patient in this respect!

Commentator notes:

We have made the commentator notes compulsory for the Area Festival as - to add to the atmosphere of this special event - we would like to have our commentator say a few words about each rider and horse as they ride around the outside of the arena.  Your notes can be as simple as how long you have owned your horse and whether this is your first Area Festival at this level etc, and it would be helpful if you could please write these in the 3rd person: that is, instead of 'I have owned my horse for 3 years and this is our first Area Festival' write '[rider name] has owned her horse for 3 years and this is their first Area Festival'.  Please check any existing commentator notes are up-to-date and do not relate to another competition.  If you do not want to add any notes, please write n/a in this section. 

Entries in advance please via the 'online entries' tab on the Brook Farm website.

Late entries are accepted (if there is space) at £2 extra per class - please note that BD have advised our entries must close at midnight on Sunday, 14th July and there will be no exceptions to this.

£50, £35, £20 prize money to be awarded.

First place prize money is mandatory regardless of the number of starters, beyond which the prize money scale in the 2024 Members’ Handbook will be used.

Sashes to the winner of each class, and rosettes to those placed 1st - 10th.  The highest placed Under 21 rider in each Summer Area Festival class will be awarded with a commemorative rosette.

Prizegivings will be unmounted, except for the final class of the day where the prizegiving will be MOUNTED.  There will be an opportunity for all of those placed to have a photograph taken on their horse.

Delicious hot and cold food, drinks and snacks are available from our onsite cafe

As per BD rule 62, no refund will be made to those withdrawing after the close of entries.

50% of the total entry fees will be returned to those whose withdrawal is received before the close of entries