Hunter Pace

Hunter Pace 2019!

This will be a great event to 'kick on' hunt season!

**September 22, 2019 10:00 - 3:00 Campbell Valley Park

**Join us for a fun filled day of cross country riding, visit with some of our wonderful English Fox Hounds that will be on display and chat with FVH members to learn about ‘Riding to Hounds’.

**Everyone welcome, spectators encouraged to come cheer on the riders and meet the hounds!**

**Divisions: Second Field**— trot/canter, optional jumps.

**First Field — **canter/controlled gallop, jump natural obstacles.

**Max height —. 75m – .90m Course is approximately 3 km.**

A hunter pace is a competition in which the trail is marked for horse and rider to follow.

The trail is rated at the speed that the First and Second fields would travel if they were fox hunting.

Competitors go out in teams of three and four to ride the course - we can assign you to a group if needed. Each group of riders is timed and teams are penalized for either riding too fast or too slow off the pre-determined pace time.

The team to come closest to the pace time wins the competition, whether over or under the pace time. Prizes for first and second place. ***

Riders will ride a predetermined marked course, First Field must jump and Second Field may go around jumps at their discretion. Each field will have two runs with a five minute check. 

Course: Through field with varied fences, small logs etc. Awards: At 3:00 pm. Each division will have awards for first and second place. 

Food trucks on site 

****Riders must be able to handle their horse in an open setting.** **

HCBC membership, helmets and boots required. Course available on the day.

Check in starts at 9:30 am at the 208th St side entrance to CVP cross country field

**First team leaves at 10:00 am, then in five minute intervals**

**Ride times will be assigned and posted on the FVH FB page before the event.**

*Tally HO!*