XMAS EXTRAVAGANZA 2010

As we did last year, we’ll be setting up our Christmas Fayre in the Patio. Stall-holders and visitors will be lucky in that they have direct access to the Piccadilly Coffee Shop Corner where Ruben will be serving exiting new coffees and delicious hot chocolate topped with whipped cream. And he will have with him a wonderful selection of his latest muffins.

In the arena Sue and Lynn from the Ladies Keep Fit and First Aid Training, will be giving us a display and showing us how to recover from our 2010 splurge.

The youngsters will be demonstrating new fun Gymkhana games whilst our older riders show off their more advanced skills.

For our visiting kiddies and their mums and dads we’ll have pony rides and family games: sac races, 3-legged race, hook the horse shoe, ball games and much more.

Entrance is 1euro but everybody gets a strip of tickets for the raffle. There will be
“ guess the name of…” and “lucky dip”. Last but not least Father Christmas will make his annual visit with a sack full of presies.

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WARMING UP FOR CHRISTMAS

Well Christmas is just around the corner and here at M.E.T.A. we’re busy organising our 2010 Xmas Extravaganza.

STAYOVER:

First on the Calendar we have a Pre Extravaganza Stay Over
Date 6th-7th December.
Time from 6pm Monday to 6pm Tuesday.

Activities:
Riding class
Grooming
Preparing for Christmas Display.
Practising fun games

META HALLOWEEN SHOW 2010

META Halloween Show 2010 saw an amazing turnout, a truly international crowd of 30 young participants – British, Spanish, French and German – and more than 100 spectators, all of whom got into the spirit of the occasion wearing monstrous costumes, wigs and make up.

In spite of the cool weather META terrace was crowded from 10 am until 4 pm when the last of the visitors finally left. The BBQ was a huge success made even more appetising by the delicious selection of muffins provided by the Piccadilly Coffee Company – a new coffee shop in the Plaza Santo Domingo, Murcia, well worth a visit.

Our BHS trained judge, Mrs Julie-Anne Jones, recently arrived in Murcia, had a very difficult job deciding the prizes to be given at the Fancy Dress Parade. She took a thoroughly professional approach to the prize-giving of our 2 Gymkhana sections, Beginners and Initiated riders, and our young competitors really had to show their paces. As with last year’s show META was proud to have one of its disabled riders amongst the 2010 winners.

Veronica Campillo took charge of the Show Jumping. Apart from our regular pupils, Leah Twomey spent her week’s half-term holidays here preparing for the show and getting Ecolo into shape. And Sophie-May Clarke brought Darcy, the horse she has just taken on loan from the nearby stable where he is in livery.

RESULTS:

Fancy Dress :
1st Elena Martínez Rubio
2nd Pilar Segovia Vera
3rd Alba Cárceles Pizcueta

Gymkhana 1 : ---------------------------Gymkhana 2:
1st Thomas Batley ----------------------1st Noa Díaz Velasco
2nd Erwan Rhaiem ----------------------2nd Ellie Yates
3rd Rocio Jerez --------------------------3rd Georgia Pearson

Show Jumping 50 cm:
1st Becky Driffield riding Golfo
2nd Emma Barber de Martino riding Tinker
3rd Hannah Daibell riding Tinker

Chase me Charly
1st Leah Twomey riding Ecolo
2nd Becky Driffield riding Lily
3rd Hannah Daibell riding Tango
And Sophie-May Clarke riding Darcy

80 cm: -----------------------------------------------100cm:
1st Leah Twomey riding Ecolo ----------------1st Leah Twomey riding Ecolo
2nd Sophie-May Clarke riding Darcy --------2nd Sophie-May Clarke riding Darcy
3rd Becky Driffield riding Lily

Last but not least META Riding Centre would like to thank The Piccadilly Coffee Company, Murcia, for kindly sponsoring the great trophies awarded to our Halloween winners. And, as always, a special vote of thanks to our magnificent horses, staff and helpers who all work so hard to make these events a wonderful family occasion.

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