Mendip Plains Equestrian Centre

Dressage field topped rolled and set all ready for Monday’s @britisheventing Horse Trials ✅

@britisheventing 📍 Mendip Plains Ston Easton 📆 May 27th - Bank Holiday Monday Heading to @bhorsetrials today, looking forward to catching up with the other @britisheventing organisers today at the lake side @voltairedesignuk for some ideas and inspiration! Oh and what a treat to have the sun shining!! 🤗☀️☀️☀️

We have jump training with Paul Tapner this Saturday book now to secure your space. Paul welcome all ages and abilities.

We have added 1/2 ‘XC Play’ slots to tomorrow’s SJ arena hire. The slots can be booked separately so you can do both or one or the other. You need to got to book the Arena page on the website to book this facility: https://www.myridinglife.com/eventdetails.aspx?id=457345 Bare with us and next weeks dates will be added ASAP

All set and ready for tomorrow 🤩 Can’t wait to see you all! 🥳🐎

Current plans for Sunday 🤞🏻🐎🙏🏻 . . . It’s been a bit of a soggy one here today but the rest of the week is predominantly dry so we are still very much aiming to run SJ on the surface and XC on grass for Sunday’s Arena Eventing. The XC fences haven’t been set out yet as we are keeping of the ground for as long as possible, but you can see the plan from the course plan and white steaks. In the meantime please can everyone do a sun dance ☀️ 💃🏼 🕺 we really want to get this show on the road!!🐎 You can see a provisional time table on the live feed of our website, late entries are being accepted, if you have any time requests pop it in the notes box we always do our best to accommodate.

It’s been a little bit windy today 💨 but we aren’t complaining because it’s doing a fab job drying out the ground 🙌🏻 Big well done and thank you to everyone who joined us for dressage today and battled on 💪🏼 The ground we have around the arena is very different to the main XC course and so we think it’s very likely that we will be able to spread our arena eventing track over the arena and the grass area for next Sunday which is super exciting! As you can see we have great grass cover and the wind is drying things up nicely. So don’t forget entries close tomorrow night (Sunday) for next Sunday’s (14th) Arena Eventing (SJ on the arena XC on grass 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻) late entries will only be accepted if we have room at an additional charge.

‼️PLEASE READ‼️ We have snow but not very much of it! The arena is fine to ride on. In light of other people potentially having more snow than this and having a difficult start to the day we have decided to postpone things by 3 hours. We will start at 12:30 instead of 9:30am. Please share this post and let others know. Thank you! Add three hours on to your original start time 😊

‼️Update 8:35am - todays competitors please check your inbox and your junk file you all have all been emailed 📥 ‼️ ‼️PLEASE READ‼️ We have snow but not very much of it! The arena is fine to ride on. In light of other people potentially having more snow than this and having a difficult start to the day we have decided to postpone things by 3 hours. We will start at 12:30 instead of 9:30am. Please share this post and let others know. Thank you! Add three hours on to your original start time 😊

It’s nearly the weekend!! We are excited to run our last competition before Christmas! Christmas outfits and cheer is 💯 % welcome! 🤗 🎅🏼🎄🤩 Times are now live for Sunday’s Arena Eventing - please note we have a longer gap than usual between the 60/70cm and 80cm classes this is to allow us to switch the jumps in and out, to allow for the different height XC fences. We will ask for the arena to be kept completely clear of horses and humans whilst we move the jumps around before the next course walk. Can’t wait to see you all! 🤗

Thank you to one of our lovely volunteers @rachaelnorris6746 and her husband Andy for creating this video of one of our Eventing days. Who’s coming to join his on August 26th for our @horse_event5 Qualifier???

Schedule combined training for March she said,The weather will be better in March she said,The ground will be better in March she said.March 7th publish times,March 8th snow dump.#lifeofanequestrian

#Arena Eventing all set & available for hire ✅ ✅ 💥 #britisheventingarenaeventing British Eventing

The arena is riding well, please let us know if you intend on joining us or not, we do not want to waste staff and judges times if your not coming to join us. Thank you

Well underway with our first few ponies of the day 🐎

Last 24hours to get those #lastminute.com entries in for Sunday’s Hunter Trails & Team Challenge! Please get organised so that we can be organised getting your times out to you. No class changes once times are being organised!

It’s just over 4 weeks until this place is turned into the @garston_veterinary_group ODE 🙌🏻😆🐎 We think most people who have joined us for XC schooling recently will agree, that even with the dry weatherwe have experienced our excellent grass cover is really helping the going 👌🏻

I don’t usually share my personal riding on the Mendip Plains social media account’s, but I’m just sat here watching myself on the big screen (pretending like I’m a pro, not! 🤪) going around the @voltairedesigngrassrootschamps @ @bhorsetrials We didn’t end up with the best result on paper, serious rider nerves in the jumping phases resulted in some rider errors 🤦🏼‍♀️ but none the less we had the most fantastic time and I’m so grateful to @britisheventing and @bhorsetrials for giving us grassroots riders the opportunity to ride around this iconic venue. Unless you are aspiring to be a 5* rider this is the only opportunity you will get to ride around part of the cross country course with the most lovely supporting crowds. Sooo get your entries and start that journey to getting qualified! Our event is just one week away the late entry fee kicks in again tomorrow, we are still accepting entries in all classes but there is only 4 spaces left in the BE 80. Can’t wait to see you all 😊