The Coakham Fallers Club 2006 - 2007 Season

Remember - our spys are everywhere - so better to own up and pay your £2!!

Your chance for fame and glory - or perhaps more appropriately, mud and a sore ego.There is a £2 fine per fall which will go into a kitty for the quarry supper at the end of the season. The person with the highest number of falls will receive a prize (possibly a pair of sticky bum breeches or a riding lesson). 

There will also be a prize for the most spectacular fall - and perhaps, the best confession!

The Coakham Fallers Club Rankings 2006/7

Rider	Meet	Have you Paid?	Number of Falls
CHAMPION Master Ruth Webb	A new joint leader: A fall the Children's Farm, Beckley, and then Merlin put his foot in a rabbit hole as we negotiated some gorse, at Street Farm, just slipping over in the walk and then a fall at Nurstead - so her competitive bid for the championship is gathering pace!! And now a fall over her last fence as Field Master before moving to Australia, at Bookers Farm, having jumped some huge fences, she fell at a two foot rail puts her in the joint lead!	owes £6	4
CHAMPION Ollie Hurst	Two falls, one at Montague and the other at Attwood Farm and now ones at Firle and Baron's Grange on Xmas Eve put him in a commanding position!	paid	4
Andy Keep	Two tumbles off his new hunter in the first field at Rickney - although all settled down for the rest of the afternoon! Now adding Montague to his bid for stardom....	owes £6	3
Michaela Blackburn	Hever: landing over the fence drop down a sloop onto slippery bridge!  Brightling: Over the drag hedge.	owes £4	2
Robbie Miles	Austens Wood: fell and did a cartwheel whilst trying to chase up a hound. Benenden: fell off over Roger's Orchard Gate!	paid	2
Tracey	A tumble at the Autumn meet at Rickney Farm and another fallfrom a pony at Folkington which got very excited waiting on a track and slipped over!	owes £2	2
Carol	Left with her feet sticking out of a hedge at Attwood Farm - rescued by Mike (after he had taken a photo!) and then a fall at Barons Grange Xmas meet - which she tried to keep quiet - but our spys were out!!	owes £4	2
Master Jo Carr	Bucked off Nic's JD before her feet were in the stirrups at the Autumn meet at her own yard. And then pulled off the quad by a tangle of dogs walking country at Stidolphs!	paid	2
Samuel Ridge	His 11.2 stubbled on landing over a jump with ditch resulting in him falling, only to have his hand catch in his reins and drag him face down through a muddy field for 20+ metres. Samuel had a second fall at the Bedgebury meet - still sporting an attractive graze where Daisy accidentally stood on his cheek - fortunately just a glancing blow. Still in true Ridge tradition he was soon back on board and cantering through the forest!	paid	2
Master Clare Miles	Wateringbury	Owes £2	1
Tommy Hurst	Wateringbury	Owes £2	1
Peter Webb	At Brightling	paid	1
Master Roger	Austens Wood: an attempt at cheating the system by our esteemed master Roger Manning - who feel at a hedge and tried to bribe Clare not to tell!!!  We think he should be charged double for that!	owes £4!	1
Shane	A tactical dismount over the very big hedge at Bookers Farm, where she came down on her feet beside her hore!	paid	1
Caroline Richardson	Bucked off at Oxendean Farm - thought she may have broken a bone in her hand but carried on anyway!	paid	1
Simon Davies	At Hole Park	Paid	1
Alex Wheeler	At Hole Park	owes £2	1
Sophy Whaley	At Hole Park	owes £2	1
Sally Mack	A nasty tumble off Larry at full gallop when he put a foot down a rabbit hole at Hole Park	paid	1
Anne Derby	Hooked off by a gate post at Street Farm, breaking her ankle - something she only found out when she visited the doctor two weeks later!!	paid	1
Greg	First time out at Hever and an unfortunate tumble on the landing side of a hedge - but raring to come out again!	owes £2	1
Gundrada Hole	Hever: landing over the fence drop down a sloop onto slippery bridge.	owes £2	1
Thomas Ridge	The meet at Bedgebury	paid	1
Polly Miles	Barons Grange Xmas Meet	paid	1
Jack Henty	Barons Grange Xmas Meet	paid	1
Jenny Roberts	on the flat coming out the park at Firle	paid	1
Ester Warren	when her horse touch the electric fence and shot forward at Firle	owes £2	1
Sophie Etheridge	Sophie Etheridge was mortified to fall at the drop holly hedge in front of an audience at Larkins. To make it worse, the published photos show it nicely in sequence and her parents have it on video!	paid	1
Bill	Falling a short distance from the finish, but managed to get back on board to jump the last big hedge, "We all end up in the Club in the end!" he says!	paid	1
Claire Corbel	A fall at Attwood Farm	owes £2	1
Paul Blagg	Who was still flying through the air at Attwood Farm, sans horse, when he heard James Ramus cry "That's £2, Paul"	paid	1
Sarah Aspinall	A hard fall at the St Hubert's Day meet at Montague	paid	1

Your £2 fine should be paid to Claire Miles or Charlotte Blair.

"A big thank you to all those to helped me after my tumble on Sunday.  Thanks and apologies to Alex, Caroline and Jenny who scraped me off the floor after Larry had put his foot down a rabbit hole and catapulted me off at full gallop. 

Although I have no memory of it, I apparently was helped back on, said "I'm fine" and galloped off and left them standing there !   I've been told that I then went on to finish the line including the hedge at the end - don't remember that either ! My first memory is of being walked to a car where Jessica Steven's mum, Susan, and Jane Bramwell looked after me so well until the ambulance came. 

After being put in a horribly claustrophibic head brace and taken to Ashford Hospital, X-rays showed nothing broken and Tony and Holly came to get me and we called by Hole Park for Holly to drive the lorry home.  Big thanks also to Lyndsay Bramwell for riding Larry back to the meet and sorting him out and to Jenny for taking him home in her lorry.

I've been so touched by all the calls and messages - the Coakham Hunt really is like a family.  I am feeling a lot better, although still a little giddy and sick at times and the neck is quite sore.   Still, pretty lucky really and lucky that Larry didn't hurt himself at all - what a good horse to look after me like he did !"

 

Regards,

Sally