Annual Awards
OFFA'S DYKE GROUP - TROPHIES & SPECIAL ROSETTES 2010
*** YOU CAN ONLY COMPETE FOR AWARDS OF ONE GROUP ***
Please complete your record card with all rides you do and also each time you help. This year you only need to have it signed by the ride organiser if you help at another group or do one of their social rides. We should have a record for Offa's Dyke events. Authorising your own trophy card is not acceptable.
PLEASURE RIDE ROSETTE - awarded to members and associate members who have completed 5 non-competitive rides, 4 of which must be Offa's Dyke rides.
UNSUNG HERO TROPHY– to be awarded by the Committee to the individual who is judged to have contributed significantly to the Group during the current season. Nominations to the Committee by 30 September welcome.
SHIMARA CUP - awarded by the Group's founder, Fiona Wilton, for the group member who gains most points overall (riding and non-riding).
Points are awarded as follows for the Shimara Cup:
| Completing a non-Offa's Dyke competitive ride of any length | Flat rate 40 |
| Completing any Offa's Dyke ride | 2 per kilometre |
| Attending one or a series of Offa's Dyke seminars/events | Flat rate 25 |
| Stewarding/Helping at an Offa's Dyke ride/event (per day, Ride Organiser's discretion) | Flat rate 100 |
| Organising an Offa's Dyke ride (50% for joint Ride Organisers and 50% for each subsequent day of multi-day rides) | Flat rate 200 |
| Organising one or a series of Offa's Dyke seminars/events | Flat rate 150 |
Group Chair and previous 2 years winners will be ineligible for the Shimara Cup.
PANDORA TROPHY FOR NOVICE RIDERS - awarded by Margaret McKiddie for the best novice rider, who, before the commencement of the current season, have not started in more than 5 competitive rides. The horse need not be novice. Rides to be 50km or below, and the first ten competitive rides started on a single (nominated if more than one) horse will count.
STARLIGHT TROPHY - presented by Janet Evans for the best novice horse in its first competitive season. No competitive rides to have been started in the previous season. No more than ten rides may be entered in total, those of up to and including 50km will be accepted.
Points for Pandora and Starlight trophies: EGB national trophy points will apply, up to 50km (note, no distance points limit as there is in the national Mira trophy).
CINDY TROPHY - awarded by Gareth and Lindsay Williams to the veteran horse aged 16 years and over at the start of the current season (NB horses' birthdays are 1st January preceding their actual birth date) who successfully completes the highest distance.
MISTRESS HARRIET TROPHY – presented by Paul and Gina Harris to the junior rider (aged 18 and under on 31st December at the end of the trophy season) who successfully completes the highest distance.
MADOC TROPHY – presented by Margaret McKiddie for the highpoint horse in Endurance GB competitions. To be eligible the rider or owner must produce evidence of helping at at least one EGB ride.
BONANZA TROPHY – presented by Ray and Lesley Dunn to the highpoint registered Pure, Part or Anglo Arab in Endurance GB competitions.
THE OFFA’S DYKE CHALLENGE - presented by Carolyn Edwards in memory of Tarr Steps Hannah to the Horse/Rider combination scoring the most trophy points in their 3 highest scoring completions on all Offa's Dyke Group rides, including NCRs and social rides.
PANDORA ROSETTES - presented by Margaret McKiddie in honour of her long distance mare Pandora. Awarded to horses completing at least 240, 320 or 400 km in the current season. If your horse has already gained a 240km rosette for a previous season he/she will need to complete 200 miles/320 km for the next rosette which can be claimed for two seasons, thereafter 250 miles/400 km rosettes can be claimed in successive seasons. Only one Pandora rosette per annum can be claimed for each horse, and the distance awarded will be the furthest for which the horse is eligible.
WARRENS HILL ARABIANS FIRST 160 km ROSETTE - presented by Lesley Dunn for horses or riders completing their first 160 km in a day.
WARRENS HILL ARABIANS FIRST 80 km ROSETTE – presented by Lesley Dunn for horses completing their first 80km or longer ride in a day.
ROUGH CLOSE LADY TROPHY – presented by Delwyn Hall for the rider completing the highest ER distance in their first season of ER's. (Rides can be in any country) Ties will be resolved by trophy points, then by placing.
THOROUGHBRED ROSETTE - presented by Delwyn Hall for the Thoroughbred or 50% (no less) Thoroughbred horse who successfully completes the highest distance.
NATIVE/'NEDDY' ROSETTE - presented by Delwyn Hall to the full/part bred native or unregistered with less than 25% Arab, Thoroughbred or Warmblood who successfully completes the highest distance.
BELSTAR TROPHY - presented by Hilary Cuming to the highest point horse and rider Open or Advanced combination in CRs only. Best 10 rides to count. Winners of the Madoc and Bonanza Trophies are excluded.
JUNIOR ROSETTE - riders aged 15 and under on 31st December at the end of this trophy season completing any 3 rides.
CLEAR CARD ROSETTE – For a horse's 24 consecutive competitive ride passes without a fail (novice rides – on a separate card – may count towards the required 24 passes).
GRADE 1 ROSETTES – presented by Sharon Parr for a horse's EGB cumulative grade 1 distance in increments of 400 km.
MITCHELL ARAB RACEHORSE TO ENDURANCE HORSE TROPHY - For Arab (minimum 50%) horses that have raced, scored on points for all completed EGB rides including NCRs - Offa's Dyke rides will receive an extra 1 point per km. Main rider must have helped at an Offa's Dyke ride.
TEAMS TROPHY – Highest points for teams of 3 combinations (3 riders, one horse each) in all types of ride except ERs. No limit to numbers of rides or distances. To be eligible, team names, riders and horses must be provided to Trophy Secretary prior to 1st April.
Notes:
The word ‘horse’ above should be taken as to also include pony.
“Distance” awards include NCRs, “Points” awards do not unless specified that they do.
“Points” are scored as specified in the EGB Members Handbook, except for the Shimara Cup – where the points scored are specified above. Where trophies include points for NCRs, then the points counted for NCRs will be distance points only.