Category: General News
18-04-2005
Please add the following races to your diaries:
WETHERBY 26TH MAY 2005 (EVENING) LIGHTS OUT LADY RIDERS HANDICAP HURDLE
PERTH 5TH JUNE LADY RIDERS MARES ONLY RATED 0-90 HANDICAP HURDLE OVER 2 1/2 MILES (£8000 ADDED)
Please spread the word and tell your fellow amateur lady jockeys about these races. Many apologies that they have not been included in the recent list of Races to Come through an admin error.
We are most grateful to the Conniston Hall Hotel and to Persimmon Homes for their most generous sponsorship and hope for plenty of support with a good field for each of these races. Please do your best to support them.
18-04-2005
The AJA Restricted Open Race at the Ledbury point-to-point on Sunday 3rd April at Maisemore Park in Gloucestershire saw Julian Pritchard equal David Turner’s all time record of point-to-point winners when he scored on The Brooklet to raptuous applause from the local crowd. Appropriately, this was the course where Julian had his first ride over 20 years ago.
Julian then went on to break the all time record in the following race by scoring on Royal Jake.
09-04-2005
With the whole world anticipating an exciting Grand National with its full quota of 40 runners, lets hope for some luck in running for both David Dunsdon and Thomas Greenall and their respective mounts.
David Dunsdon and Joly Bey were very unlucky to be badly baulked at Cheltenham recently which caused the tack to slip so badly that David had no alternative other than to pull up. Hopefully this time there will be no such incident. Good luck to the Findon team and to David and Joley Bey and good luck also to Thomas Greenall, who holds a commanding lead in our NH jockeys’ table this season.
28-03-2005
Following the retirement of Marcus Armytage and Eve Johnson-Houghton, both Ian Balding and Nick Gaselee were welcomed as Directors of the AJA at the AGM held on Wednesday 24th March at Weatherbys in Wellingborough.
Sandy Murphy also retired as Racing Executive from the AJA but we are delighted that we will not be losing touch with her as Sandy was voted Vice-President of FEGENTRI at the General Assembly in St Moritz in February.
Elain Mellor also retired as Company Secretary and we are pleased to announce that Sara Moore has taken on this role.
20-03-2005
The AJA are pleased to announce that for 2005, the 50th year of FEGENTRI, Sara Moore and Justin Morgan will be our representatives for Great Britain. This weekend Sara and Justin travelled to Siracusa in Sicily for the first of their races in this year’s FEGENTRI calendar. Sara was 4th in the ladies race and Justin was lucky enough to have two rides in which he WON the gentlemen’s race and was second in the Italians’ leg of the World Cup of Nations.
Congratulations to Justin on a great start to the season!
20-03-2005
Following Saturday’s racing, Lingfield hosted their annual All Weather Awards Dinner at which Scott Dobson was presented by Greg Nichols, Chief Executive of the BHB, with a silver cup in recognition of his winning the Amateur All Weather Championship.
Unlike the professionals, our amateur season is run over 12 months in order that every winning and placed amateur jockey has points awarded. When the amateurs’ race riding opportunities are so limited compared with professional jockeys, this only seems fair.
The new Amateur All Weather 2005/2006 season therefore has already begun as from Sunday 20th March 2005!
To end a memorable evening, Scott was lucky enough to win a raffle prize – a 2 night stay at a 5* Scottish hotel – much to the delight of his girlfriend Kathryn. Many congratulations to Scott.
12-03-2005
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27-02-2005
Are you looking for an amateur rider? Have a look in our Riders Directory (just click on RIDERS DIRECTORY) and you will find a list of riders there together with contact numbers and details. By clicking on each name, the relevant details come up. We hope you find this directory useful.
01-02-2005
Your one month’s grace which we always allow for the start of the new year has now run out and anyone wishing to renew their membership must act fast if they are planning to ride within the next few days. If you have any queries please telephone Kelly Edwards at Weatherbys on 01933 304778. You can now join over the telephone if you have a credit or debit card.
01-02-2005
THE AJA ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WILL BE SPONSORING SIX POINT TO POINT RACES THIS SEASON STARTING AT THE SINNINGTON ON 20TH FEBRUARY.
THIS SEASON’S AJA RACES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1: Sunday 20 February: Sinnington at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, Yorkshire – Confined Race
2: Saturday 26 February: West Somerset & Minehead Harriers at Holnicote, nr Minehead, Somerset – Restricted Race
3: Saturday 2 April: Belvoir at Garthorpe, nr Melton Mowbray, Leics – Confined Race
4: Sunday 3 April: Ledbury at Maisemore Park, Gloucester – Restricted Race
5: Sunday 10 April: Cheshire Forest at Tabley, nr Knutsford, Cheshire – Restricted Race
6: Saturday 23 April: Vale of Aylesbury with Garth & South Berks at Kingston Blount – Confined Race
We hope that as many of our members as possible will support these races. Good luck to all those taking part and especially to those members who are looking to gain a place to help towards obtaining their Category B licences.
