New combined training class for RoR

Scotland is hosting a new combined training class for former racehorses this weekend (18 May) at Floors Castle horse trials.

The James Ewart Racing RoR 3-phase Challenge combines dressage, jumping and showing. It starts with a dressage test, followed immediately by a jumping phase, which includes being judged on style and presence. The final part is a showing/confirmation phase.

If the class proves successful, Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) may schedule more classes for other RoR regions to trial.

“It’s the first combined training competition to include [this] mixture of disciplines,” said RoR chief executive Di Arbuthnot. “It’s a one-off at the moment, but it if works, RoR will consider rolling it out to other regions to trial and — longer term — build a series.”

 http://www.ror.org.uk/

Martha Terry

H&H features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on dogs of all shapes and sizes. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs, one a street dog from Gambia who was abandoned at three weeks old. Now, her constant companion, whether by her feet at her desk or walking cross-country courses, is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.