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N. SHORE EQUESTRIAN QUALIFICATIONS

Riders compete for
Summer Games spot

NORTH SHORE riders and their horses will compete for
rosettes, ribbons and B.C. Summer Games qualifications at
the North Shore Equestrian Centre April 26.

The event, which is being orga-
nized by the North Shore Horse-
man’s Association, starts at 10
a.m, and is open to the public.
NSHA president Mare Davidson
said she hopes the show will attract
a lot of spectators; ‘‘Everybody
has a weak spot for horses.’’

The show will include classes in
Western and English equitation
and pleasure riding. English riding
is distinguished by such English-
style riding equipment as the flat-
ter saddle, and such English rider’s
wear as the traditional black velvet
cap, Davidson said. Western riding
features a western saddle and such
western attire as cowboy boots and
hat.

Rider performance is judged in
the equitation classes.

‘*What counts,’? Davidson said,
“is how well you control your
horse.”’

By ANNELIES RAVENSBERGEN
Contributing Writer

English riders will also complete
a jumping course that includes
eight fences ranging up to 2% feet
high.

Western riders will do equitation
classes as well as trail riding which
is for B.C. Summer Games contes-
tants only.

Trail riding involves guidance of
the horse over, through and
around obstacles, while the rider
opens gates or picks up objects.
The trail has a pattern and the
horse requires skillful and precise
handling by the rider, Davidson
said.

In pleasure riding, the perfor-
mance of the horse is judged. It
should be responsive and follow
orders quietly and quickly, David-

NEWS photo Mike Wakelield

NORTH VANCOUVER’S Rick Soldan won the Army & Navy Unit
68 snooker championships held March 24 te 30. Soldan, who plays for
North Vancouver’s branch 118, brought hore the trophy that the club
has not had since 1978. Soldan edged Unit 68’s Rick Martin 2-1 in the
tournament’s best-out-of-three final.

THE NORTH Vancouver Cruisers
Summer Swim Club still has space
for North Shore youngsters who
want to enjoy a summer of com-
petitive swimming.

Open house and registration will
‘be held between 10 a.m. and noon,

son said, ‘‘and it should be visible
that the horse is truly a delight to
ride.”

The games part of the show de-
pends on speed and is open to both
Western and English riders. One
race requires swift turning of three
barrels. The pole bending race re-
quires turning of poles without
knocking them over. And the
keyhole race is a run around a cir-
cle in which rider and horse try to
avoid touching its inner edges.

ne intent is to have fun. You
don’t need to have a pretty horse
but just one that runs fast,’’
Davidson said.

Davidson estimates that about
300 North Shore residents enjoy
horseback riding on a regular
basis. She said the North Shore of-
fers a range of rare and special
riding trails that is unequalled in
the Lower Mainland.

She added that the goals of the
NSHA are to keep horses on the
North Shore, encourage new riders
and maintain and preserve riding
trails.

Car
rally
set to

roar

THE SEVENTH annual Windsor
Secondary School Car Rally is
scheduled to hit the starting gate
May 9 at 9 a.m. at the school’s
main parking lot.

Entry in the rally is restricted to
past and present Windsor students
as well as staff and their friends or
relatives.

Scheduled to take four hours,
the rally will cover a course that
runs from the North Shore to
Vancouver and back to Windsor.

Cars will run the rally at average
road speeds between a series of
checkpoints.

Rally organizer Arnold Muir
said the rally is primarily to stoke
school spirit and heighten interest
in school activities beyond the
traditional academic and sporting
events.

Total prize money will be $265.

To register call Arnold Muir at
Windsor 929-2361.

April 26 at Ron Andrews Pool,
931 Lytton.

This is the 16th year of competi-
tion for the Cruisers.

Training takes place almost daily
from May 4 to Aug. 15 with in-
ter-club meets among other Lower
Mainland clubs held on weekends.

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BARREL RACER Janet Cock and horse Sam practise for the rpeoming
B.C. Summer Games equestrian qualifications at the North Shore
Equestrian Centre.

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Rob Thomson will be on location:

FRIZAY APRIL 24th 6-9 p.m. and
SATURDAY APRIL 25th 12-4 p.m.

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