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The journey down ...

Posted by Mary-Jane on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 

Left nice and early on Friday to get to Dover. It was a beautiful sunny eve and the white cliffs looked very inviting and we were all in great spirits. This was soon dashed when Mr Sea France man said we didn’t have our export licence and we couldn’t travel! The atmosphere in the camp soon changed and everyone realised it was rather serious- eventually a very nice man from DEFRA turned up from Ramsgate and issued us with an emergency one. We missed the first ferry at 6.40 and ende...


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The big day HAS arrived ! WE ARE OFF !

Posted by Sara Howe on Friday, September 16, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 
Well finally, the big day has arrived. 

The horse box has been washed and cleaned, everyone has packed and the ponies sorted.  Bless them, they think they are going to a party after all the pampering they have had in the last few days !   It's just that the party might take a little longer to get there than they anticipate .... I'm sure we'll be hearing plenty whinnying from the Gingers asking "are we nearly there yet?".

We only have 3 hours to go before we leave Bradbourne to catch a 6.40pm f...
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16 days and counting ..... ! From Amble

Posted by Amble on Friday, September 2, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 
Well folks, we're all quaking in our soon to be re-shod shoes.  We only have 16 days before we head for Slovenia.... can you believe it ?

All eyes will be on us, so we have plenty to do in two weeks.  We are off to Windsor Park on Sunday 4th to keep ourselves trim and to iron out any last minute issues.  We will be so focused on listening to Sara that we might even forget to doff our brow bands at the Queen, should she be there.

I was a very brave pony and had my flu jab yesterday. The vet said...
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A massive 'Thank You' to all of you with connections to Bradbourne ...

Posted by Trish & Sara on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 
We want to give a massive thank you to everyone who has kindly supported us so far with the Gingers fund to the Pony Worlds.  The generosity of everyone at the Bradbourne has been overwhelming and we are extremely grateful to you all.

We will be keeping people posted about our progress when we go abroad via the website and will add a blog about our progress and include some pictures so keep checking the site. 

If you want to be kept informed, click on the RRS link on this page and you wi...
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We've qualified !!! We're off to Slovenia !!!!

Posted by Trish on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 
We did it !! We have qualified for the World Driving Championships, and Team Ginja is heading off to Slovenia in September.  We are all excited and really looking forward to showing the world what we are capable of.

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