Times & info for Moorhouse 2 March

Moorhouse Winter Series TREC March 2025

I hope you’re all looking forward to Sunday! Please read all the information on this page carefully.

Directions – the address for the venue is Moorhouse Equestrian Centre, Gap Farm, Moorhouse Lane, Moorhouse, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. DN6 7HA

Parking – please park as close as you can reasonably & safely manage, there’s plenty of hardstanding. Please bring a poop scoop/gloves and clear up after your horse both in the horsebox park and in the warmup arena. Horses must not be left unattended tied outside horseboxes.

Times have been sent to all competitors and are also at the bottom of this page.

Please be prepared to go slightly ahead of your time in case there are any withdrawals on the day. To help us run to time, please start your control of paces as soon as the judges are ready and tell you.

TREC GB membership year started on 1/10, if you want to be eligible for the national winter leagues please ensure you have joined or renewed as a red or blue member by the competition date & provide us with your current member number.

Helpers – we have got some wonderful judges giving up their Sunday to help, if you smile and say thanks it might help them keep warm.

Food – the café will not be open but the kettle for hot drinks will be in the passageway near the warm up arena with an honesty box. Please support if you can.

Toilets- are signposted from near the stairs.

A viewing area – is up the stairs with an open gallery. If you don’t have time to walk the course then viewing the course from here is a good way to work out where you’re going to go.

Spectators – please don’t enter the arenas unless you’re helping out a competitor in class 1 or 2. Please keep all children under close supervision and for safety please do not take pushchairs/prams near any horse areas.

Important notes
– We are not using number bibs so please confirm your name on entry.
– We will have pre-printed score sheets arranged in starting order so please don’t swap unless it’s unavoidable!
– No more than 6 horses in the warm up arena at once please. Pass left to left and if you are walking please come off the track.
– Please use green (novice/young) or red (kicker) tail ribbons as appropriate for your horse, and give plenty of space to any horse wearing a ribbon.
– Obstacle lists will be available Sat on the website.  Obstacles are ridden unless specified as led (other than for the in-hand class).
– For biosecurity reasons please do not go near the resident horses, and make sure any family/friends you bring stay away from them too. Don’t handle anyone else’s horse or let yours touch noses with another.
– If on the day you or your horse are unwell please stay away.

Things to bear in mind for the classes:
– The TREC GB rulebook is available at Rules – TREC GB
– Golden rules for the obstacles are: look for the numbers on the flags to do them in the right order, keep red flag on your right and white on your left, try to avoid refusals, don’t change pace, don’t stop in the middle, don’t touch any part of the obstacle. If it’s a compulsory walk obstacle then make sure you correct any jogging. Choose your pace before the start flags and stick to it until your horse’s back feet are out of the finish flags.
– Competitors in the unaffiliated classes in hand & starter may ask for assistance from the judges if required eg which obstacle is next.
– If your horse wears a martingale you must lead using headcollar & rope, not the reins.
– The only assistance allowed in affiliated classes is help getting back on your horse (a mounting block will be provided).
– Everything is optional but if you want to miss an obstacle out you must ride up to it, halt and tell the judge that you won’t be attempting it.
– Take Your Own Line – All obstacles in the arena, must be ridden as flagged. 4 minutes to complete as many obstacles as possible doing a different obstacle in between for example S-bend then water, not S-bend, S-bend.

– Circling at any point on the course counts as an effectiveness fault at the next obstacle.
– Doing an obstacle from the wrong direction or in the wrong order will be an error of course so elimination (though we will let you finish your round) – look for the flags and numbers & if you get lost come back to walk/halt and look around for the next number.
– The start of the timed PTV (obstacles) section is when you enter the flags of Obstacle 1. Please go straight from the MA to obstacle 1, Class 1 will have 5 minutes. Affiliated classes have 4.5 minutes. Take your own line novice is 4 mins, TYOL open is 4 mins.
– If you are struggling to complete an obstacle, move on to the next otherwise you risk running out of time.
– The PTV will be timed and when the time limit has elapsed, time penalties of 1 penalty for every extra 6 seconds will be incurred

Good luck and we hope everyone enjoys their day!